This study investigates the effects of a 21-day breath meditation intervention on emotional well-being, with a focus on the psychosomatic and neural mechanisms of breath regulation. Breath meditation, known to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and reduce physiological markers of stress, has been shown to enhance emotional regulation and improve subjective well-being. The study...
This article focuses primarily on a synthetic presentation of the global process of pentecostalization as well as the analysis of the selected religious abuses that occur in Christian communities on the grounds of emotional and syncretic Pentecostal religiosity. Over the last two decades, the interest in the problem of psychomanipulation and religious abuses has grown significantly in the...
The aim of this paper is to review the most important questions and problems concerning the emergence of conscious ai. In the paper, I point out three such key questions and problems: (1) how to recognize that ai has acquired consciousness? (2) how can conscious ai emerge? and (3) what properties can conscious ai have? I argue that these problems cannot currently be solved on the basis of...