Mysticism and the Creed. W. F. Cobb

Major F. W. Cragg

It is with the deepest regret that we learn of the tragic death of Major F. W. Cragg, i.m.s., from typhus fever at Lahore on the 23rd of April, 1924. Major Cragg's death adds another name to the long but brilliant list of scientific investigators who have lost their lives in the prosecution of medical enquiries for the benefit of humanity. He died as truly on active service as did any officer k...

David Ranson , Between the “ Mysticism of Politics ” and the “ Politics of Mysticism ” : Interpreting

Drugs and Mysticism

The claim has been made that the experience facilitated by psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, can be similar or identical to the experience described by the mystics of all ages, cultures, and religions. This paper will attempt to examine and explain this possibility. There is a long and continuing history of the religious use of plants that contain psychedelic substances...

F/W e+e- INTERACTIONS*

INTRODUCTION The field of e+e-interactions has provided a great deal of excitement in the past few years. 1-9 Primarily, interest has centered around the reaction +-ee-hadrons. This reaction is particularly attractive because we believe in electromagnetic perturbation theory, which implies that the cross section for hadron production is dominated by one photon annihilation of the electron and p...

Mathematics and mysticism.

Is there a world of mathematics above and beyond ordinary reality, as Plato proposed? Or is mathematics a cultural construct? In this short article we speculate on the place of mathematical reality from the perspective of the mystical cosmologies of the ancient traditions of meditation, psychedelics, and divination.