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BRIDGING TO ANOTHER DIMENSION: THE RELATIONAL SYSTEM OF SHAMANISM AND RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AMONGST THE TEMIAR SENOI OF MALAYA

Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Ushuluddin June 30, 2021 Riza Saputra, Husnul Khotimah 1 citation

This paper aims at finding the relational system, religious encounter, and modernity of the Temiar community in Malaysia. The form of this research has focused on literature research (library research) by using literature as a source of research. The method used is an analysis of documents by conducting content analysis. This within-case analysis is followed by a thematic analysis across the...

Apocalypses and Visionary Literature

Introduction to the Apocrypha June 22, 2021 Lawrence M. Wills

Chapter four addresses the apocalypses of the Apocrypha. The social conditions that gave rise to apocalypses are examined, as well as the elements that are typically found in these texts. The two axes of apocalypses are discussed, the historical/eschatological axis and the spatial/cosmic axis. The role of an angelic interpreter, the importance of the revelation of a transcendent reality through...

The Mysticism of History and the Transcendent Vision of the Great Patriotic War

Quaestio Rossica June 21, 2021 Плеханова Ирина Иннокентьевна

This article examines the evolution of “mystical discourse” in the literature on the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 2008. It analyses the content of ideas about the participation of supernatural principles in people’s relations and in the fate of peoples in different historical conditions. The author reveals the gnoseological potential and socio-cultural mission of irrational knowledge that...

Mental Activity During Episodes of Sleepwalking, Night Terrors or Confusional Arousals: Differences Between Children and Adults.

Nature and Science of Sleep June 21, 2021 Anna Castelnovo, Giuseppe Loddo, Federica Provini et al.

Objective/background: Night terrors, sleepwalking and confusional arousals are behavioral manifestations of incomplete awakenings from sleep. According to international diagnostic criteria, these behaviors occur in the absence of any mental experience, or in the presence of very limited cognition or dream imagery (eg, a single visual scene). The aim of this study was to systematically and...

DOI: 10.2147/nss.s309868 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Consciousness Amnesia Somnambulism Parasomnia +3

Climate crisis and consciousness; re-imagining our world and ourselves

June 10, 2021 Joseph Mishan

After a dream about the end of the world, Sally Gillespie closed her private practice to pursue a PhD in psychological responses to the climate crisis. She had practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 20 years. In this way, we are introduced to the transformational potential of the climate crisis, when met with courage and honesty and experienced through the medium of dreams, myth and...

The Future of Sleep (and Dream) Medicine

June 1, 2021 R. Naiman

Envisioning the future of sleep medicine begins with an examination of the limitations imposed by our presumptions about sleep itself. Damaged by the overarching sociocultural forces of denaturation, industrialization, and medicalization, the tenets of integrative medicine provide a foundation for imagining a radically transformed sense of sleep and more effective approaches to managing sleep...

Integrative Dream Medicine

June 1, 2021 R. Naiman

Although dreaming was integral to the ancient Asklepian practices that form the roots of contemporary medicine, its clinical relevance has been obscured by a scientific bias against the phenomenology or personal meaning of dreams. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming play critical roles in neurological and mental health, particularly memory consolidation, mood regulation, and personal...

Could sleep paralysis be pleasant?

Journal of Sleep Research June 1, 2021 Monika Kliková, Brian A Sharpless, Jitka Bušková 17 citations

Sleep paralysis is an inability to move at sleep onset or upon awakening. It is often a distressing experience that can be associated with significant clinical consequences. Few studies have focussed on pleasant sleep paralysis episodes. The present study aimed to determine the relative prevalence of pleasant episodes of sleep paralysis as well as variables that may make them more likely to...

O Uso da ibogaína no manejo da dependência de drogas no Brasil

May 28, 2021 Bruno Ramos Gomes

This research qualitatively investigated four treatments for addiction currently in Brazi that use ibogaine as the main tool in the process.Ibogaine is a substance derived from an African plant, Tabernanthe iboga, traditionally used in its region of origin and which leads to intense changes in physical and psychic sensations, considered a psychedelic.Before entering the field, an integrative...

The role of attention and intention in dreams

May 19, 2021 Elizaveta Solomonova, Michelle Carr 1 citation

Traditionally, dreams have been seen as experiences that one cannot control, as something that happensto the dreamer (at times through involvement of supernatural powers), without the dreamer’s permission,volition or agency. This view was famously challenged in the advent of psychoanalysis: in his Interpretation ofDreams, Freud proposed that while we may not be consciously in control of our...