A philosophy-of-mind reflection on duality. It argues that science and religion, fractal and mandala, analysis and intuition are not opposites but two attentions turned upon one world — and that the felt task of "seeing whole" corresponds, at least by metaphor and at most by measurable correlation, to the integration of the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on...
Introduction Childhood abuse has a significant impact on adulthood mental health. Many children cope with the threat of abuse through avoidant strategies; however, this adaptation may contribute to the development of depersonalization symptoms and dissociative disorders. In contrast, the development of trait mindfulness, the tendency to monitor present-moment experience from an accepting...
This contribution discusses Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013), a British folk horror film featuring a key ‘trip scene’, against the backdrop of contemporary discourse that frames the psychedelic experience as a tool for ecological awareness. Drawing on film, fungi, psychedelic studies, and the environmental humanities, I argue that the film raises the expectation of a (magic)...
Background: Burnout among nurses is a significant issue due to high work demands, emotional burdens, and limited resources in hospitals, including private hospitals like Bhakti Rahayu Tabanan. This condition is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization of patients, and a decreased sense of personal accomplishment, which impacts the quality of nursing care. Several studies over...
Depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) are dissociative experiences involving altered bodily self-experience and diminished felt reality of the external world. Although various paradigms have been used to induce transient DP-/DR-like experiences experimentally, their relative induction profiles remain unclear. The present study compared Mirror Gazing Task (MGT) with a closely matched...
Nonduality is a foundational but conceptually elusive notion across several contemplative traditions. Nondual traditions challenge the assumption that a subject-object structure characteristic of ordinary experience is an intrinsic feature of conscious awareness. However, little remains known about the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with such experiential state. Here, we investigated how...
Depersonalization/derealization (dpdr) is known to occur across mood and anxiety disorders (MAD) and has been proposed as a marker of worse illness. However, despite the well-known clinical association, there are no epidemiological data on the relationship between dpdr and MAD. In this NCS-R analysis clinically significant dpdr (DPDR-C) was defined as "sometimes" or "often" past-month...
ESOTERIKJune 30, 2026Moh. Zainul Arif, Muhammad Zaelani
This article explores syaṭaḥāt as a form of mystical expression in Sufi tradition and its representation in Indonesian popular culture through the analysis of the lyrics of “Satu” by Dewa 19. Previous studies have primarily examined syaṭaḥāt within historical and theological discussions of classical Sufi figures, leaving its contemporary cultural manifestations insufficiently explored. This...
Junayd al-Baghdādī (d. 297/909), one of the prominent figures of early sufism, stands out as among the first sufis to systematically and analytically articulate sufi concepts during the formative period of sufism. His explanation of the experience of tawḥīd (divine unity) within a framework of self-purification (tazkiyat al-nafs), contemplation (tafakkur), annihilation (fanā’), subsistence with...
Background Although drives cannot be demonstrated to be quantum phenomena, the formulation proceeds by defining drives in terms of their neural correlates and by hypothesizing that the indeterminacy associated with consciousness arises from the indeterminacy of drives. We also explore interventions using either–or questions designed to foster emotional awareness related to changes in drive....