Scientific Assessment of the Validity of Mystical Experiences

Preface

1. Defining Mystical States and Experiences

2. Unintentional and Deliberate Methods of Attaining Mystical States: Religious, Cultural, and Philosophical Perspectives

3. Mystical States achieved through Psychedelics: The Origins, Classical, and Contemporary Use of Psychedelics

4. Questioning the Reliability of Mystical States: Identifying Features

5. Questioning the Validity of Mystical States: Opinions and Objections

6. The Experiencing Subject and Mystical Object: Defining Validity of the Mystical State

References

Index

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• A teoria psicológica e escolas de pensamento

Mystical State;Mystical Experience;Psychedelics;Mystical Knowledge;Therapeutic uses of psychedelics;Uncreated Light;Mysticism;Mystical Object;Mystical states;Genuine Features;Altered consciousness;Psychotropic Substances;Agnostic;Meditation;Undifferentiated Unity;Transpersonal psychology;Follow;Psychopharmacology;Parenthesis Mine;Plotinus;Confer;Hindu mysticism;Noetic Quality;Christian mystics;Holy Mountain;Ultimate reality;Eastern Orthodox Tradition;Athonites; Sufis;Overburden;Trans-subjective knowledge;Green Wall;Cultural constructivism;Native American Church;Neurochemistry;Spiritual Transcendence Scale;Neurophysiology;Genuine Mystical Experience;Psychopathology;Brain Activation Patterns;Therapeutic effects;Thrill Seekers;Neurophysiological factors;Mystical World;Religious mystics;Classic Psychedelic;Psychological methods;Existentialist Philosophers;Scientific assessment