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Handbook of Leaving Religion February 11, 2020 Masoumeh Rahmani
This chapter explores the disaffiliation narratives of former members of one of the most successful international Buddhist organisations – S.N. Goenka’s (1924–2013) Vipassana meditation movement. To date, Goenka’s network is the largest donor-funded Vipassana organisation with over 170 official, and over 130 non-official centers worldwide. These centers offer courses of varying durations (3–60...
Neuroscience February 4, 2020 Rocío Martínez Vivot, Carla Pallavicini, Federico Zamberlán et al. 116 citations
We address the hypothesis that the entropy of neural dynamics indexes the intensity and quality of conscious content. Previous work established that serotonergic psychedelics can have a dysregulating effect on brain activity, leading to subjective effects that present a considerable overlap with the phenomenology of certain meditative states. Here we propose that the prolonged practice of...
Philosophy East and West January 7, 2020 Monima Chadha
Jonardon Ganeri has written an impressive book that is a must-read for anyone interested in cross-cultural philosophy. Attention, Not Self moves Buddhist philosophy further into the center of contemporary philosophical debates about self, personhood, agency, action, perception, attention, and the kinds of mental content. The book is focused on work attributed to a single philosopher, the...
BMC Psychiatry January 6, 2020 Sarah Frances, Frances Shawyer, Bruno Cayoun et al.
Effective transdiagnostic treatments for patients presenting with principal or comorbid symptoms of anxiety and depression enable more efficient provision of mental health care and may be particularly suitable for the varied population seen in primary healthcare settings. Mindfulness-integrated cognitive behavior therapy (MiCBT) is a transdiagnostic intervention that integrates aspects of CBT,...
Psychological Perspectives January 2, 2020 Oreet Rees, Leanne Whitney 5 citations
The sleep paralysis nightmare has been reported from antiquity to modernity across manifold cultures. Many people who experience nocturnal assaults by dark entities, demons, hags, or incubi during sleep paralysis ascribe them to evil spirits with varying degrees of malevolence. The majority report the episodes as terrifying, mysterious, and uncanny. Known in the neurocognitive literature as...
Neural Plasticity 2020 Simeng Gu, Yawen Li, Fei Liang et al.
Mindfulness training has gained popularity in the scientific field and has been proposed as an efficient way for emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is designed especially for depressive people in reducing risk of depression relapse and is recommended in national guidelines as a treatment choice for relapse prevention in recurrent depression. The aim of the current...
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedānta 2020 A. Vaidya
Recent analytic philosophers of mind, such as Galen Strawson (2006), David Chalmers (2015), Philip Goff (2006, 2017a, 2017b), and Itay Shani (2015, 2018), building off of the work of earlier pioneers, such as Thomas Nagel (1979), have articulated and defended some version of panpsychism. Strawson defends micropsychism, Chalmers defends panprotopsychism, and Goff and Shani advocate different...
Buddhist-Christian Studies 2020 Wioleta Polinska 2 citations
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is making a case against empathy when it comes to ethical deliberation and action.According to Bloom, emotional empathy has a dark side because it causes an in-group bias that leads to parochialism and racism.Our helping behavior is selectively aimed at those like us and, as a result, blinds us to the suffering in distant global settings.In arriving at his position,...
Spiritus 2020 Anita Houck 1 citation
Reviewed by: The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-First Century ed. by Margaret Benefiel and Bo Karen Lee Anita Houck (bio) The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research, and Institutional Life for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Margaret Benefiel and Bo Karen Lee. A volume in Advances in Workplace...
Spiritus 2020 Mary Frohlich 10 citations
Spirit, Spirituality, and Contemplative Method Mary Frohlich, RSCJ (bio) The goal of the “Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Spirituality” conference, held at the Antonianum in Rome in September 2019, was for spirituality scholars from both Latin (that is, Italian or Spanish speakers) and English-speaking worlds to converse and to learn from one another. In view of that goal, I begin by...