Disturbance in mindfulness state and disability related to self-regulated cognitive abilities (metacognition) generally occur among higher education students. Many types of yoga and meditation techniques have been developed which show improvement in one’s mindfulness, cognition, as well as metacognition. We carried out a three-armed empirical study to capture the effect of two spiritual...
The article attempts to document the oral history and professional path of several modern darkhan masters who worked in Ulan-Ude and Buryatia at the end of the XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. On the basis of the method of partic-ipant observation and in-depth interview, the author himself as a bearer of the tra-dition, reconstructs the genealogy of mastery of one of the professional...
Meditation is a widely recognized practice that enhances mental well-being and cognitive function. Despite advances in EEG meditation neuroscience, challenges persist in extracting robust and interpretable features from complex, non-stationary EEG signals. Existing classification methods often rely on limited feature sets and traditional machine learning approaches. These methods lack...
This article explores the significance of meditation in Jainism, a spiritual tradition that emphasizes self-control, non-violence, and liberation. Jainism offers a rich array of meditation practices, including Dharma dhyana and Shukla dhyana, designed to cultivate detachment, self-awareness and ultimate liberation (Moksha). This article delves into the principles and practices of Jain...
This narrative review synthesizes research demonstrating the multi-domain import of nasal breathing across developmental, physiological, immunological, and neuropsychological domains, with the aim of communicating its potential clinical relevance and motivating future empirical investigation. We broadly address developmental and evolutionary foundations and the pathways through which nasal...
William Butler Yeats is one of the literary pillars of twentieth century modernism. He was interested in the mystical and mythical elements of the dominant cultures of the world. Accordingly, he interpreted history in a context that broadly negotiated with magic, the occult, theosophy, alchemy, astrology, mythology, mysticism, and religion. He was not attracted to any specific culture, even...
While Western theology typically locates omniscience in a personal Creator-God, Indian philosophy presents a notable spectrum. This article traces the dialectical arc of omniscience (sarvajñāna) across major Indian philosophical traditions, arguing that what appears as an epistemological question—“who knows everything?”—is ultimately an ontological puzzle about the nature of consciousness...
After fourteen years of wandering across Asia, Alexandra David-Neel became the first Western woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in 1924. To get there, the explorer passed herself off as an old Tibetan beggar, a metamorphosis that was not only physical but also spiritual, marking her identity and enabling her to transcend cultural boundaries. The body certainly affects the mind by...
Abstract: Under standard physicalist epistemology, reports of awareness that knows itself without ego, narration, or subject–object structure are classified as confusion or confabulation before their epistemic status is even assessed. The disqualification is not the outcome of investigation but its precondition — built into what counts as legitimate experience. This essay examines what becomes...
Abstract: Standard debates about death presuppose a binary: consciousness either survives bodily death or it doesn't. For physicalism, the question barely arises—consciousness is identified with the brain, so extinction follows necessarily. The interesting problem is that consciousness-first metaphysics does not simply flip the binary. It transforms what the question means—and thereby renders...