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2024 Nicole Bauer
Burnout, imposter syndrome, changes in higher education, issues of free speech, structural inequality—the challenges facing academics today are daunting and overwhelming. How do we balance all of our responsibilities and goals without becoming exhausted? How do scholars decide if activism is right for them, and if so, what form should it take? There is, fortunately, great wisdom, solace, and...
Treasury of Persian Language and Literature 2024 Zahra Mohammadi, Hanieh Sadri Majd, Zohreh Nooraeinia
Mystical experiences are a form of direct awareness of the presence of God or the transcendent truth, which the mystic attains through methods such as meditation, seclusion, remembrance (dhikr), asceticism, and divine love. These experiences emerge through detachment from worldly dependencies and deep internal focus, leading to a state in which the mystic perceives a sense of unity with the...
Consciousness and Cognition 2024 Jarrod Gott, Sina Stücker, Philipp Kanske et al. 22 citations
Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator involved in a variety of cognitive functions. Additionally, acetylcholine is involved in the regulation of REM sleep: cholinergic neurons in the brainstem and basal forebrain project to and innervate wide areas of the cerebral cortex, and reciprocally interact with other neuromodulatory systems, to produce the sleep-wake cycle and different...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2024 Patrick Mcnamara, Jordan Grafman 8 citations
We review and synthesize recent religion and brain studies and find that at a broad network neuroscience level, religious/spiritual experiences (RSEs) appear to depend crucially upon interactions between the default mode network (DMN), the frontoparietal network (FPN), and the salience network (SN). We see this general result as broadly consistent with Menon's et al. "Triple Network or...
PLoS One 2024 Nicholas Hagger-Vaughan, Daniel Kolnier, Johan F. Storm 2 citations
Here we describe a type of depolarising plateau potentials (PPs; sustained depolarisations outlasting the stimuli) in layer 2/3 pyramidal cells (L2/3PC) in rat prefrontal cortex (PFC) slices, using whole-cell somatic recordings. To our knowledge, this PP type has not been described before. In particular, unlike previously described plateau potentials that originate in the large apical dendrite...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling December 31, 2023 Wonki Baek
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of Buddhist meditation poetry produced on the basis of forests and meditation on mental and physical healing. Forests are the source and home of life that mankind has enjoyed so far. So nature[forest] has the power of wisdom to bring man back to his true self. Especially, various phytoncides emitted from the forest, and the appearance and...
PsyArXiv December 21, 2023 Victoria Amo, Nikolai Godt, Johannes Leugering et al. preprint
This paper introduces a novel approach to lucid dream communication, leveraging electrooculographical signals for real-time, natural language messaging within dreams. Beyond traditional horizontal eye movement techniques, our methodology incorporates vertical eye movements, enhancing the expressive range of communication. Recognizing the potential for lucid dream communication in diverse...
Poligrafi December 20, 2023 Mary C. Walsh
For thousands of years people have attempted to understand epilepsy. Throughout our long history, healing traditions have incorporated dreams into both epilepsy diagnosis and treatment. Recent studies provide new information on the impact of epilepsy on sleep and dreaming, while research into epileptic dream content offers insight into the emotional and spiritual experience of people with...
Central India Journal of Medical Research December 20, 2023 Anita Choudhary
When awareness is separate and distinct from mental activity, When waking, dream and deep sleep pass like clouds, Yet awareness of Self remains, This is the experience of total relaxation…That is why, in tantra, Yoga Nidra is said to be the doorway to Samadhi.1”- Swami Satyananda
Poligrafi December 20, 2023 Kelly Bulkeley
Dream research is entering a new era of accelerating insights and discoveries, thanks to the rise of powerful digital analysis tools that are enabling important advances in the empirical study of dreams. This paper illustrates the use of these tools, drawing on the resources of the Sleep and Dream Database, a free online archive of information about sleep and dreaming. These tools include...