I am a student of philosophy. In the beginning I had actually thought of studying music, not so much because I love music – but because music has never caused war. Only words produce war, and, having become afraid of words, I thought – why not study music and become a conductor? But then I chose philosophy – because of the questions it involves; and I almost left philosophy – because of the ans...

The extraordinary power inherent in human mysticism was exemplified at dawn on a remote atoll in the western Pacific on February 28, 1954, when the USA exploded a hydrogen-fusion bomb, codename ‘Castle Bravo’ (LEFT). This thermo-nuclear device released the energy equivalent of 15 megatons of TNT and far exceeded the 5 megaton explosion they had planned. The bomb was tested because America felt ...

the issue of the individual unity of being is among the issues in the field of theoretical mysticism which all of the muslim mystics have agreed upon. as such, some of them have attempted to base this theory on proof, among whom is mohammad reza qomshei. qomshei’s proof has been accepted by some philosophers and criticized by others, among whom is hakim jelwe who was contemporaneous with qomshe...

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.

Mysticism and schizophrenia are different categories of human existence and experience. Nonetheless, they exhibit important phenomenological affinities, which, however, remain largely unaddressed. In this study, we explore structural analogies between key features of mysticism and major clinical-phenomenological aspects of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders-i.e. attitudes, the nature of exper...