This article critically reexamines the concepts of adversity and resilience within the framework of Sufi thought, situating them against the backdrop of contemporary secular mindfulness practices. While mindfulness-based approaches typically treat adversity as a stressor to be managed, Sufi teachings view trials as essential opportunities for spiritual transformation, rooted in a metaphysical...
This randomized controlled trial examined the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a mindful hypnotherapy intervention (MHI) integrating positive psychology suggestions to enhance well-being in older adults. Sixty-two community-dwelling adults aged 60–95 years were randomized to MHI, non-hypnotic relaxation, or wait-list control. The four-session intervention combined hypnotic induction,...
In the KARE trial, 96 adults with severe alcohol use disorder, abstinent following detoxification, were randomised in a 2×2 factorial design to 3 weekly infusions of ketamine (0.8 mg/kg) or saline, each combined with mindfulness-based psychological support (PS) or alcohol psychoeducation (PE). We re-expressed the trial data on endpoints acceptable to regulators and compared the most and least...
The paper undertakes a comparative philosophical study of the thought of René Descartes and Adi Shankaracharya, centring on the thematic convergence between the Cartesian dictum "Cogito, ergo sum" and the Vedāntic mahāvākya "Tat Tvam Asi", "Aham Brahmasmi", etc. Beginning with Descartes' method of methodological scepticism as articulated in Meditations on First Philosophy, the study highlights...
Frontiers in PsychologySeptember 28, 2026Andrea Signorelli, Francesco Tormen, Bruna Dal Bianco et al.
IntroductionLucid dreaming (LD) involves awareness of being in a dream during REM sleep and depends on the reactivation of metacognitive and reality-monitoring processes. This study tested whether a virtual reality (VR) intervention designed to rehearse lucid-dream-relevant metacognitive routines increases LD rates beyond baseline training, and whether generic VR exposure produces similar...
Spirituality is increasingly recognized for its association with emotional and physical health. However, many existing measures conflate it with general well-being or religiosity, making it difficult to examine spirituality as a distinct construct. The present study introduces the Short Spirituality Scale (SSS) to address this problem. It consists of a ten-item spirituality measure grounded in...
This paper presents an information-processing framework for examining consciousness across biological and artificial substrates. It treats humans and artificial intelligence as information-processing systems implemented on different physical substrates and evaluates claims using methodological naturalism, testability, consistency with established knowledge, and parsimony. The paper examines the...
The standalone companion to Vision: From Photon to Mind, this essay picks up the visual signal at the threshold where the retina ends and the brain begins — the lamina cribrosa, the "Stargate" — and follows the central visual pathway station by station: the optic nerve and chiasm, where two eye-centred images are re-sorted into halves of a world; the lateral geniculate nucleus, a "relay" that...
A pre-registered formalization of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha's combination rules, collated against the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, with the Dhammasaṅgaṇī list collated against its commentary and against the Cambodian edition The Theravāda Abhidhamma classifies consciousness into 89 types (121 when the supramundane types are reckoned by jhāna). It also states, factor by factor and type by type, which of...
Academic procrastination is a common academic behavior that may interfere with students’ performance, well-being, and effective self-regulation. The present quantitative correlational study examined the relationships among academic procrastination, general self-efficacy, and mindfulness among university students. The sample comprised 200 young adult university students aged 19–25 years from...