PUTEM DEMISTIFIKACIJE ZIKRA: ANALIZA PSIHO-SOMATSKIH ASPEKATA SUFI RITUALA
ON THE PATH OF DHIKR DEMYSTIFICATION: ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOSOMATIC ASPECTS OF SUFI RITUALS

Summary/Abstract: The past in which medicine was responsible for body, psychology for the mind and religion for comfort and support is slowly becoming forgotten and replaced by the time in which the idea of interdisciplinary does not cause fear and mistrust, but offers challenges and solutions. Due to its psychosomatic aspects, the ritual which is a constituent part of religion should be analysed from the perspective of neurological disciplines (neurobiology, neuropsychology, psychoneuroimmunology) which enable us to see how stimuli from external body's environment and stimuli from the unconsciousness during the ritual affect the psycho-physical condition of human organism. The research on self-healing process of wounds caused by self-injury (DCBD11) during Sufi ritual – Dhikr is one example of high potential research on religious rituals of progress of western medicine. The analysis of Dhikr itself, spiritual relationship between Shaikh and participants in Dhikr and psychosomatic effects of Dhikr offers us ‘more empirically grounded picture of religion as a probable, although by no means inevitable by-product of the normal operation of human cognition’ (Boyer, 2003: 123).

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