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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"mystical experiences"”.
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Meditation Techniques and Their Relationship to Psychotic-Like and Mystical Experiences
… been associated with benefits but also adverse experiences from anxiety to psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and even psychosis. The overarching aim was to identify how different types of meditation techniques (varying in bodily focus) differentially relate to psychotic-like experiences and …
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Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering, Mystical Experiences, Ego-Dissolution, and Insight
… feelings of comfort and safety, decentering, mystical experiences, ego-dissolution, and insight. The first hypothesis was that perceived meaningful intention and feelings of comfort/safety during the psychedelic experience were expected to be associated with PF, decentering, mystical …
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Primordial Mental Activity: Archetypal Constellations in Mystical Experiences and in the Creative Processes of Psychotic Patients
… for the learning of attribution of meaning to experiences, PMA depends on a non-logical approach to subject-object relations, demonstrating the fluidity of the frontiers of inner/outer realities. Considering the nature of archetypal energy as bipolar, composed by an affective pole and its …
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The role of personality and situational factors in forgiveness /
… well as honesty, absorption, the propensity to mystical experiences, and dissociation. Empathy was then tested as a mediating variable between the personality variables and forgiveness. Empathy and forgiveness were then studied in relation to childhood maltreatment. Finally, the effects of six …
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Who's being transcended?: the role of belief of other as self in mediating the relationship between mystical experience and mental health
… higher power. These are commonly referred to as mystical experiences, and although the relationship between mystical experiences and positive mental health outcomes has largely been supported, the psychological mechanisms underlying it are unknown. This study develops a scale to test the theory …
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Let there be light: developing the mystical luminosity experience construct and scale
… or divine nature is widely described in various mystical and religious traditions, and light with mystical qualities is reported in many nonordinary experiences studied today, most notably near-death and mystical experiences. Despite its significance to contemporary experiencers and much of …
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An examination of the relationships among personality, religiosity, spirituality, and mysticism
… and low on religiosity reported more mystical experiences than those low on spirituality and high on religiosity.
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An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Centering Prayer
… study examined the psychological and spiritual experiences of eight advanced adult centering prayer practitioners using the research methods of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview format, hand coded, and analyzed for basic and recurrent …
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Forgetting the self: nondual awareness as a key component of self-transcendent experiences
Self-transcendence (ST) and self-transcendent experiences (STEs) have been described as a positive component of human experience and as predictors of wellbeing across a diverse and multidisciplinary literature. As a trait, self-transcendence (ST) has been conceptualized as a developmental process …
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Induced Near-Death Experiences in Healthy Volunteers: Phenomenology and Aftereffects
… for transcendental elements and uncommon inner experiences to manifest.<br/>Regarding the presence of aftereffects, the results were quantitatively modest but qualitatively relevant, revealing subtle impacts that went unnoticed by psychometric instruments, aiming to measure psychological …
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Creativity, altered states of consciousness and anomalous cognition: the role of epistemological flexibility in the creative process
… of consciousness (ASCs) and parapsychological experiences? This thesis systematically explores the relationship between multiple dimensions of creativity and: personality traits characterised by an openness to intrapersonal experience and a fluid cognitive-style; specific altered states of …
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Spirituality in the Laboratory: Negotiating the politics of knowledge in the psychedelic sciences
… psychedelic substances and the spiritual experiences they induce into western therapeutic assumptions and practices. I argue that their efforts to scientifically determine the mysticality of mystical experiences and their pursuits of scientific liturgical authority over the administration …
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Conversion as transformative experience: a sociological study of identity formation and transformation processes
… is constructed from which transformative experiences can be analysed. The particular experience at the heart of this study is the phenomenon of conversion and the dynamics involved in the construction of that process. Establishing the axial age as the horizon from which the process of …
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Conversion to Islam and Family Relations in Contemporary Britain
… to position themselves as modern subjects, while mystical experiences and the narration of dreams are rarely revealed, despite their significance. The social re-positioning that conversion to Islam entails also demands a re-drawing of boundaries, which becomes apparent through the study of the …
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Near Death Experiences and the Christian Gospel: Concord or Conflict?
… as a "circuit board" or gateway for a range of mystical experiences including the NOE phenomenon. Thus the classic NOE may be stimulated by influences as diverse as drugs, Yoga, or even severe emotional or psychological trauma where death in not imminent. However, some believe, it is only by …
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Aspects of personal happiness and their relationships with individual differences in personality
… the connection between well-being, spiritual experiences and religiosity (section 3). Mystical experiences were widespread among an adult sample, irrespective of religious affiliation, but were not associated with happiness (section 3.1). A study of members of religious organisations and of …
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A phenomenological inquiry into how transcendent experiences among existential therapists influence their practice
… across times and cultures. Such transcendent experiences have been reported to be prevalent also in the general populations. Yet, the phenomenon is little studied in psychotherapy research, from the lived perspectives of therapists who have intimate encounters with such experiences. Addressing …