Shamanic music constitutes the deepest stratum of organised sound in Chinese civilisation. Emerging from Neolithic animistic beliefs that attributed spirit to every phenomenon, it developed into a sophisticated sonic technology for mediating between human society and the unseen world. This paper traces the trajectory of shamanic music from the earliest bone flutes of the seventh millennium BCE...
In 2025, 1 billion of the world population is considered to experience anxiety and depression, and 32% of college students in the U.S. experience moderate-severe anxiety and 18% have severe depression. Common interventions such as medication and CBT are effective in most cases but turn out to fail 50 percent because of its side effects. Mindfulness-based counseling (MBSR/MBCT) applies basic...
Mindfulness has long been known for its positive health benefits for the human body and mind. The introspective, non-judgmental aspects of mindfulness exercises make it especially beneficial for elite athletic performance, where it is critical for athletes to enter a specific state of concentration and awareness where peak performance is observed—the flow state. In the past, certain mindfulness...
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the public and academic understanding of AI capabilities are also constantly changing. This change has triggered discussions about whether AI can have consciousness, understanding, or subjective experience. The definition of consciousness itself also remains controversial in philosophy and science, further complicating the issue. This...
Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment argues that computers cannot understand language, but this view has been challenged from multiple perspectives. According to critics, comprehension entails a relationship to consciousness and the outside world in addition to manipulating symbols. There is little evidence to support Searle's denial of machine intentionality, and functionalism, which...
Phenomenology is widely recognised as a philosophical framework that pertains to the comprehension of the universe and the investigation of epistemology, emphasising a shift towards seeing entities in their true form, while arguing that the outward manifestations are indicative of their intrinsic nature. The inclusion of consciousness in literary works deviates from conventional psychological...
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are a form of mindfulness-based psychotherapy practice that has been found to help reverse cognitive deficits arising from psychiatric disorders and foster positive mental health outcomes. This paper explores how MBIs could be embraced to cultivate emotional intelligence, cognitive dexterity, and proficiency to handle stressful situations and challenging...
It has long been recognized that Renaissance arts can interact with some Occultism concepts, as many artists during the Renaissance could also be alchemists and mystics. Many studies based on Western Occultism nowadays are trying to explore the relationship between ethos during the Renaissance and concepts in Hermeticism, which is one of the streams of occultism. The author believed that the...
Mindfulness has been spreading rapidly in the study and practice of Western psychology. Large amounts of research have shown that mindfulness training is effective in improving a variety of symptoms associated with physical and psychological disorders such as chronic pain, anxiety and depression. Moreover, mindfulness training is also proven to improve the level of dispositional mindfulness as...
Epic dreaming is a type of disturbed dreaming described as experiencing daytime fatigue after dreaming all night. To investigate whether such phenomena is simply a vivid dream or more of a disturbing nightmare, we are going to look at the physiological and psychological aspect of epic dreaming patients along the behaviors of nightmares. By comparison, we see a similarity of inclination towards...