A large body of research in the field psychology currently points to a variety therapeutic outcomes derived from psychedelically occasioned mystical experience. Moreover, additional suggests that such benefits mental and emotional well-being may depend directly upon subjective experience itself, rather than substances triggered it; for instance, at Johns Hopkins indicates higher scores on MEQ30...

Aim to consider the possibilities and prospects for formation of interdisciplinary meta-reflection in comprehension religious mystical experience. Using methods critical philosophical reflection dialectical logic, authors analyze specifics diversity disciplinary approaches interpretations At same time, special attention is given factors interaction that contribute leveling interpretation differ...

Abstract Proceeding from a philosophical interpretation of negative theology as performatively undermining our seeming understanding the absolute and thereby evoking transformative experience, this paper emphasises significance by linking it to Karl Jaspers’ notion universal limit situation existence. Against background, an analysis mystical psychotic experiences shows how certain similarities ...

This article adds to our understanding of late medieval women's religious writing by examining the role Virgin Mary in Mechthild Magdeburg's thirteenth-century mystical text The Flowing Light Godhead ( Das fließende Licht der Gottheit ). was ubiquitous writing, but she played different roles and modeled ways life, reflecting particular aims individual authors. In Mechthild's text, is depicted a...