The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in improving the quality of life and perceived stress of individuals with coronary heart disease. The current research was conducted with a semi-experimental method, a pre-test-post-test design, a control group, and a two-month follow-up period, with a practical purpose. The statistical...
In the article, we explore, from the perspective of genetic phenomenology, the embodied image consciousness in terms of two distinct cases, i.e.: surrealism as social and/or artistic movement as well as radiology as cognitive and/or social praxis. Both scientifically and socially, consciousness is still regarded as coextensive with language, which has its own logic and its own set of relations,...
This article brings together philosophical and anthropological perspectives to explore the empirical manifestations of ontologies and reflect on their social and practical dimensions. While some philosophical debates analyze ontologies as abstract objects disconnected from everyday ontological commitments, we build on Tim Ingold's work on an ecology of life to approach ontologies as embodied...
Objective To investigate the effects of sub-anesthetic dose esketamine on oxidative stress markers and postoperative delirium(POD)in patients undergoing laparoscopic radical resection for colorectal cancer, so as to provide a reference for the selection of clinical anesthesia regimens. Methods A total of 201 patients who underwent radical resection for colorectal cancer at Taizhou People 's...
This paper examines how lifestyle sport practitioners experience forms of transcendence, altered perception, and connection with nature, and considers whether these experiences can be meaningfully interpreted through concepts associated with shamanic practice. Drawing on Roger Caillois’ taxonomy, it explores how elements of ritual, ecstasy, and symbolic imagination appear within contemporary...
This Paper Offers the first comprehensive critique of the naturalistic psychological explanation that interprets near-death experiences (NDEs) as mere rereading or reconstruction of brain-stored memories. Physicalists claim that classic NDE features—out-of-body perception, tunnel experience, life review, luminous beings—are nothing but neural reactivation of archived personal engrams under...
In recent years, infidelity and its effects on the family system have become the focus of psychological research more than ever. The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness on early maladaptive schemas of abandonment, stubborn criteria, mistrust and defectiveness in the betrayed women in Karaj in 2021. The method of this study was...
Meta-analytical approaches can provide researchers with the overall results of studies which share the same themes. Adopting such an approach in the field of comparative literature can inform and set directions for future research. In the present paper, more than forty-three articles with the shared theme of ‘mystical journey’ were studied and their findings were employed to create an...
The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of Cognitive- Behavior (CBT) group therapy (Borkovec model) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on signs and symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and cognitive mediators. An experimental design with control group and random assignment using pre and post-test and a four month follow up was used. The statistical...
Schleiermacher's concept of feeling of absolute dependence was the starting point for discussions about religious experience among modern scholars. As the purpose of the religious experience debates in the contemporary, analytic philosophy of religion is to provide an empirical argument for the existence of God, many scholars have expected the feeling of absolute dependence in Schleiermacher’s...
The aim of the present research was to explore the effectiveness of the mindfulness – based – stress reduction (MBSR) training on academic buoyancy and academic self-regulation of students at risk of addiction. The research method was experimental of the pretest-posttest design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population was all high school girl students in the city of...
Enhancement of marital satisfaction is an important approach for improvement of family cohesion and community health. The aim of the present research was to study the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on psychological distress, emotion regulation and enhancement of marital satisfaction in women. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest-follow up design...
The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR) on the self-efficacy and frustration tolerance in parents of physical-motor disabled children. The research had a quasi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test, and a follow-up for experimental and control groups. The statistical population consisted of parents of physical-motor...
“The imaginary” and “imagination” are the essences of art and literature. However, all through history, a long-held dispute has always revolved around what they actually stand for. From illusion to dream and inspiration and divinities; from the ancient Greece to the era of Islamic philosophy and mysticism, all are linked to such concepts as imagination and the imaginary. Although these two...
The largest volume of mystical narratives in Persian literature is devoted to Mathnavi. This has caused neglecting the potentials of other forms of narrative and the tendency of mystics to tell stories in those forms. This necessitates new studies that can examine the potentials of other poetic narrative forms and their features. One of the important functions of storytelling in Sufism is...
Buddhism in the modern world offers an example of (1) the porousness of the boundary between the secular and religious; (2) the diversity, fluidity, and constructedness of the very categories of religious and secular, since they appear in different ways among different Buddhist cultures in divergent national contexts; and (3) the way these categories nevertheless have very real-world effects...
Knowledge and its hierarchy with blights of every degree is one of the fundamental principles of mystical systems. Each mystical system seeks to show superior knowledge and transcendental in order to seek greater depth of truth to its followers. So the fundamental question in this study is about what is knowledge, and how we may achieve transcendent knowledge? To answer these questions, we have...
In 2011, one of the authors (DJB) published a report of nine experiments in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology purporting to demonstrate that an individual’s cognitive and affective responses can be influenced by randomly selected stimulus events that do not occur until after his or her responses have already been made and recorded, a generalized variant of the phenomenon...
Numerous studies have documented the normal age-related decline of neural structure, function, and cognitive performance. Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation may reduce decline in specific cognitive domains and in brain structure. Here we extended this research by investigating the relation between age and fluid intelligence and resting state brain functional network architecture...
The goal of this paper is to investigate implications of cognitive science as an interdisciplinary study for educating philosophy of mind. Cognitive science with respect to unified investigation of the mind (UIM), based on its methodology, has created new possibilities in educational planning of philosophy of mind while applying new methods and techniques to teaching. Epistemological...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness and emotion regulation trainings on general health in chemical victims. Research method of current study was multi groups experimental with pretest post test and follow up in tow experimental and one control groups. 48 of chemical warfare victims in sardasht city with high score in general health questionnaire randomly...
O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de fazer uma investigação dos aspectos jurídicos das tradições culturais amazônicas relativas ao consumo da ayahuasca e sua proteção jurídica. Serão também levantados aspectos intrínsecos relativos a esses povos, o modo de fazer e viver dessas comunidades.
One of the subjects which proceeded on Iranian cultural domain in the Qajar era was philosophical and mystic issues. Due to the presence of most of the elites in Tehran in the Qajar era, a circle was formed in the domain of philosophical and mystic thoughts, titled the school of Tehran. The important people of this school of thought produced miscellaneous works of philosophy and mysticism, most...
The fact that Corbin left the realm of Western philosophy to devote himself to Islamic philosophy and Iranian theosophers has usually been considered as a radical "rupture" in Corbin's philosophical thought. This article aims at showing that in reality, there is no contradiction but rather a deep continuity in his philosophical path, which was guided by a unique quest of being. Corbin was...