Frontiers in Psychology
October 2, 2025
Lea Loncar, Charlotte Fiskum
1 citation
Detached self-observation, a central dimension of mindfulness meditation, has emerged as a key metacognitive and emotional-regulatory capacity across psychology, education, and neuroscience. This theoretical paper proposes meditation as a developmental catalyst, drawing on contemporary scholarship. Detached observation is reframed here as a culturally mediated competence grounded in both...
Journal of Business, Ethics and Society
October 1, 2025
Aditya Agrawal
This study examines Bhakti marga, the devotional path in Hinduism characterized by deep immersion and complete submission to the divine. The research focuses on the Prema-margi branch of Bhakti, which emphasizes love-based devotion to deities with form, contrasting with the knowledge-based Gyan-margi tradition. This paper demonstrates how Bhakti traditions foster community engagement,...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
September 11, 2025
David Cawthorpe
This paper presents a unifying transcultural perspective on human illness, health and wellbeing by integrating insights from cognitive psychology, existential psychotherapy, Zen philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and quantum consciousness theory. Kahneman and Tversky’s work on heuristics and biases highlights cognitive constraints shaping decision-making, while Yalom’s existential...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 5, 2025
Alexey Tolchinsky, Michael Levin, Chris Fields et al.
Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains unclear if common factors exist in various pathways leading to an onset of dissociations. In this paper we provide a framework for building an integrated, dynamical model of dissociative experiences. This framework combines a...
Aradha Journal of Divinity Peace and Conflict Studies
August 30, 2025
J. Butarbutar
AbstractThis article explores the concept of a marginalised God in the context of modernity and postmodernity, where secularization is understood not as the erasure of religion but as a transformation of humanity’s relationship with the Divine. Through a transdisciplinary approach integrating theopoetics, mystical paths, and sexuality, the text critically reflects on reconstructing spirituality...
Behavioral Sciences
August 12, 2025
Veronika Alekseeva, Anna Ciaunica
From the moment we are born, and even before, in the womb, and until our last breath, our bodies move all the time. Adaptive behaviors necessarily depend not only on the successful integration of multisensory bodily signals but also on how we move our bodies in the world. This paper considers the notion of embodied selfhood through the perspective of dynamic and rhymical coupling between bodily...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
August 11, 2025
Human-Friedrich Unterrainer
1 citation
Oceanic states of consciousness-characterized by ego dissolution, unity, and timelessness-have long occupied a liminal space between psychopathology and transcendence. This paper explores these states through the interdisciplinary lens of existential neuroscience, integrating insights from psychoanalysis, existentialism, affective neuroscience, and psychedelic research. Starting with the...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
August 1, 2025
Jonathan W. Kanen, Andrea I. Luppi, Q. Luo et al.
Abstract Background The REBUS (RElaxed Beliefs Under pSychedelics) and the anarchic brain model of psychedelic drug action proposes that confidence in beliefs – and thus expectations (priors) – are relaxed under these drugs. The brain makes inferences to minimize surprise, or discrepant expectations and outcomes (prediction error [PE]), and better model the world. We recently showed that the...
Advance Social Science Archive Journal
July 22, 2025
M. Junaid
This article explores the profound connections between mathematics and Sufism (Faqar), revealing how both disciplines embody principles of balance, unity, and divine order. While mathematics provides a logical framework to understand the physical world through patterns, symmetry, and equations, Sufism offers a spiritual lens to perceive the deeper meaning behind these structures, emphasizing...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
July 1, 2025
Michal Beneš, Tomáš Páleníček, Jiřı́ Horáček
4 citations
Research on psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin, LSD or DMT, is a burgeoning field, with an increasing number of studies showing their promise in treatment of mental disorders as well as examining their mechanism of action. Determining their effect on the brain is crucial from clinical standpoint, but also offers highly promising avenues of advancement in basic neuroscience—functional...