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Not Your Ordinary Heaven
Published in Joi Andreoli, The Recovery Cycle, 2023
Spirituality seems to be something beyond intellectual reasoning and partially about feeling and sensing. I hear people use the word awe with a feeling of connection to something outside or beyond themselves. I like the word awe a lot. Awe, and this unique connection, seem to be a part of spirituality for many in recovery.
From Antiseptic to Aesthetic: Experience as a New Narrative In Curative Care
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Ali A. Poorani, Medical Travel Brand Management, 2023
There is “magical” value of being in the presence of something greater than oneself. In one study, one cohort stood next to a 25-foot tyrannosaurus skeleton for one minute, while the other was instructed to stare down an empty hallway. The folks who stood next to the skeleton reported feeling more optimistic and more connected to a larger social system than their hallway counterparts (Hutson, 2013). In more studies of this kind, when feelings of awe and wonder are elicited, people tend to report greater feelings of purpose and connection to humanity (Hutson, 2013).
Questioning the Reliability of Mystical States: Identifying Features
Published in Andrew C. Papanicolaou, A Scientific Assessment of the Validity of Mystical Experiences, 2021
Clearly, though, it is not among the genuine features of the mystical state because it is not reported as part of most of them unless the words “fear” or “terror” is used by mystics to express the species of sentiment that is also called “awe”. Now, awe, is a genuine feature of the mystical state even if it is also felt during the visions that sometimes “bracket” the mystical experience.
On the Way to the Other: Dread, Wonder, Awe
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2021
What, then, is awe? It’s a modality of astonishment related to but distinct from dread and wonder. What’s remarkable about astonishment in general is that it opens intentionality to, and hence enable it to access, the beyond as beyond, the unknown as unknown. Access to transcendence, far from mitigating its overwhelming import, brings this import to bear on intentionality. And awe, I’ll be suggesting, overwhelms in a way that wonder and even dread don’t. In fact, what’s especially striking about awe is its profoundly ambivalent affective import. Looking up at the alterities she experiences as sublime, the child looks up to them in recognition of their superiority to herself and power to carry her beyond herself. But inherent in this looking up at and to the awe-full is an apprehensive falling-back from it. In the words of Edmund Burke (1968), the child “shrink[s] into the minuteness of [her] own nature” (p. 68). In using these words to describe the impact the sublime has on us, Burke is bringing out the element of dread that is intrinsic to awe. The child spontaneously retreats in trepidation from that toward which she is drawn by reverential admiration. And these conflicting affective movements do not happen sequentially. They happen synchronically. At one and the same time, the child is inclined to venture and recoil, go forth and fall back.
Psychiatry might need some psychedelic therapy
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2018
Peter Hendricks, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who is currently conducting a randomized, double-blind study examining the therapeutic potential of psilocybin in the treatment of cocaine addiction, a trial for which he recently presented promising preliminary results for psilocybin-occasioned cocaine abstinence at the 2018 meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence. In his manuscript in this issue, Dr Hendricks provides a fascinating psychological theory of psychedelic therapy, embedding psychedelic-occasioned mystical-type experiences within the literature surrounding the psychological construct of awe. Awe refers to an experience in which a stimulus is encountered that is so vast that it prompts a modification in the sense of self, resulting in a ‘small self’ with therapeutic import.
Clinical analysis of high-intensity focussed ultrasound ablation for abdominal wall endometriosis: a 4-year experience at a specialty gynecological institution
Published in International Journal of Hyperthermia, 2019
Zhang Xiao-Ying, Duan Hua, Wang Jin-Juan, Guo Ying-Shu, Cheng Jiu-Mei, Ye Hong, Zang Chun-Yi
Although this modality is restricted by the lesion number, size and location, it can conformally focus, and it does not have any adverse effects on the target tissue [1–8,27,28]. In our retrospective study, we selected 51 patients with AWE. Fifty-seven lesions were subjected to HIFU treatment, and the follow-up time was between 1 and 48 months. The median treatment time was 40 min (12–113 min), the median ablation time was 300 s (105–1200 s), the median ablation volume was 3.83 cm3 (1.35–12.83 cm3) and the median EFF median was 10094.45 J/cm3 (6082.67–22231.58 J/cm3). The focus volume was 3.83 cm3 (1.73–12.8 cm3), and the deposition energy of unit volume ablation was low.