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Existential Foundations of the "Mystical Experience"

Rudn Journal of Philosophy 2022

In the existing philosophical interpretations of mystical experience (constructivism, essentialism, etc.), its essence is usually seen in the features of "mystical knowledge". At the same time, the value-semantic foundations of mystical experience and its existential aspect remain in the shadows. In this article, the mystical experience is analyzed from the standpoint of the theories of the...

Spiritual Benefit from Cannabis.

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 2022 Frederick J. Heide, Tai Chang, Natalie Porter et al.

Like many mind-altering plants, cannabis has been part of spiritual practices for thousands of years. It has deep roots in Hinduism, Islam, Rastafarianism, and indigenous traditions in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. Yet almost no attention has been given to how contemporary adults employ it spiritually. A sample of 1087 participants (mean age = 38.9) completed an online survey assessing their use...

Filled/non-filled pairs: An empirical challenge to the integrated information theory of consciousness.

Consciousness and Cognition 2022 Amber R Hopkins, Kelvin J. McQueen

Perceptual filling-in for vision is the insertion of visual properties (e.g., color, contour, luminance, or motion) into one's visual field, when those properties have no corresponding retinal input. This paper introduces and provides preliminary empirical support for filled/non-filled pairs, pairs of images that appear identical, yet differ by amount of filling-in. It is argued that such image...

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2021.103245 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Feedback connectivity Filled/non-filled pairs Filling-in +2

Consciousness as the Temporal Propagation of Information.

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2022 Daniel Revach, Moti Salti

Our ability to understand the mind and its relation to the body is highly dependent on the way we define consciousness and the lens through which we study it. We argue that looking at conscious experience from an information-theory perspective can help obtain a unified and parsimonious account of the mind. Today's dominant models consider consciousness to be a specialized function of the brain...

DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.759683 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Body boundaries Consciousness Information theory Perception +2

Awareness and consciousness in humans and animals - neural and behavioral correlates in an evolutionary perspective.

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2022 Günter Ehret, Raymond Romand

Awareness or consciousness in the context of stimulus perception can directly be assessed in well controlled test situations with humans via the persons' reports about their subjective experiences with the stimuli. Since we have no direct access to subjective experiences in animals, their possible awareness or consciousness in stimulus perception tasks has often been inferred from behavior and...

Value-semantic Foundations of Mystical Experience

Chelovek 2022 Viacheslav M. Naidysh

From the standpoint of the theory of activity, the value-semantic foundations of mystical experience are analyzed. It is shown that such grounds are ultimately determined by the need-motivational sphere of consciousness, which, on the one hand, carries the activity, energy of the subject, and, on the other, gives meaning to the activity of the subject, performs a regulatory function. This...

Ketamine as a therapeutic agent for depression and pain: mechanisms and evidence.

Journal of Neurological Sciences 2022 Subha Subramanian, S. Haroutounian, Ben J Palanca et al. 58 citations

Ketamine is an anesthetic drug which is now used to treat chronic pain conditions and psychiatric disorders, especially depression. It is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist with additional effects on α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors, hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels, opioid receptors, and monoaminergic...

Saved from Ecstasy: A Multi-partite Intervention for First Time and Repeat Users of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) Within The LGBTQ+ Community

HPHR Journal 2022 Candice Carpenter

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in just 2014 alone, over 17 million persons ages 12 or older reported at least a singular lifetime use of the hallucinogenic stimulant, and well-known recreational drug, MDMA, or 3,4- methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Compared to 10 years prior, this was an increase from 11 million people within the same age bracket.21Per the European Centre...

The Two Truths that Descartes Discovers in His Meditations on First Philosophy that Do Not Require the Divine Guarantee

European Journal of Social Sciences 2022 Stanley Tweyman

Abstract In my paper, I show that there are two truths in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy that do not require the divine guarantee, despite Descartes’ claim in the last sentence of the fourth paragraph in the third meditation that he cannot be certain of anything unless he knows that God exists as Descartes’ creator and that God is not a deceiver.

What kind of science for dual diagnosis? A pragmatic examination of the enactive approach to psychiatry.

Frontiers in Psychology 2022 Jonathan Led Larsen, Katrine Schepelern Johansen, Mimi Yung Mehlsen 7 citations

The recommended treatment for dual diagnosis - the co-occurrence of substance use and another mental disorder - requires seamless integration of the involved disciplines and services. However, no integrative framework exists for communicating about dual diagnosis cases across disciplinary or sectoral boundaries. We examine if Enactive Psychiatry may bridge this theoretical gap. We evaluate the...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.825701 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Cannabis use Cross-disciplinarity Dual diagnosis Enactivism +3