VOLUME 8(1) • 2020
Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Medical Discourse
ABSTRACT. The connection between psychic disorder and artistic creativity has constituted one of the most intriguing fields of research for both medical and literary scholars. Lately, this kind of relation has increasingly been explored through transdiciplinary approaches that bring together minds i..
Malcolm Lowry: the Mexican Years
ABSTRACT. Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is, one critic argues, “the greatest English novel ever set in Mexico about Mexico”. It is, most of all, one of those literary works that explore the complicated ways in which human beings cope with what is most unfathomable and frightening in their own so..
Pleasure-, and Need-Producing Mezcal. Fragmentaria
ABSTRACT. We will claim after several in-situ experiments and a thorough reading of the literature in case, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano included to be sure, that the mezcal-induced psychosis, which could well be called “mescalitis,” different from “mescaline,” interests mainly the dopaminergic..
Highlights from Orthodox Spirituality on the Temptation of Man by the Devil and Man’s Fall into Sin
ABSTRACT. The teaching about the original yielding to sin of the first human beings, the effects of that sin and man’s deliverance from slavery to sin in the patristic literature is fundamental to God’s plan of redemption. In the writings of the Fathers of the Church we learn that there was a time w..
Remarks on Three Recent Discourses in the Field of Sciences Suitable for an Inter-disciplinary Dialogue. Cosmology, Mathematics and Orthodox Theology
ABSTRACT. We believe that issues like those we have briefly overviewed here are particularly fertile in the space of dialogue between science, philosophy and theology. Instead of the unacceptable claim that in the above lines we have clarified all the issues discussed, we may assert that we have onl..