Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) provides a framework for understanding the integration of psychological, neural, endocrine, and immune processes, yet it has rarely engaged non-Western models of mind–body regulation. This study examines Zhanzhuang (aka Chan-chuang), a Daoist standing meditation centered on the cultivation of qi, as a potential PNEI intervention. We present the protocol...
Psychopharmacology, once propelled by a series of serendipitous mid-20th-century discoveries, has matured into a field defined by mechanistic diversity, translational neuroscience, and an expanding array of circuit-based interventions. Despite more than 100 approved psychiatric drugs, remission rates for major depressive disorder and other serious mental disorders remain modest, underscoring...
Mindful yoga for depression and possible mediating processes This review article describes a study on the added value of mindful yoga in the treatment of depression. Although existing treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy can help with depression, a large proportion of people with depression do not recover or do not recover sufficiently. Therefore, it is important to develop new...
This case study explores the restorative value of mindful slow experiences in museums at a time when rapid viewing has become increasingly commonplace. Practices discussed under various terms, including mindfulness in museums and therapeutic museums, are encompassed within the concept of “mindful engagement,” which is then combined with “slow experience,” grounded in practices of sustained...
The historical division between physics and psychology has obscured fundamental continuities between physical principles and mental phenomena, creating disciplinary boundaries that contemporary theoretical and empirical developments render increasingly untenable. This paper presents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work spanning psychophysics, quantum cognition, coordination dynamics,...
Based on a spooky first encounter with ChatGPT, I argue that AI is not an alien intelligence, but a machine-like mirror that reflects back our own limited ways of knowing. I draw upon Paul Kingsnorth’s metaphor of “the Machine” and Shannon Vallor’s “AI Mirror,” as well as the ancient Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy and Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, and Knowledge vision. Through the lens of these...
The philosophy of Swami Sivananda presents a comprehensive and integrative framework for understanding inner awakening as a transformative process leading to the evolution of consciousness. Rooted in Advaita Vedānta yet deeply practical in orientation, his teachings emphasize the purification of mind, ethical discipline, and the synthesis of yogic paths as essential means to realize the unity...
Abstract Background Antidepressant effects of ketamine and esketamine are short lived, often lasting only weeks after multiple treatments. With that in mind, it has been considered addition of psychotherapy may enhance outcomes. One approach, knows as Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) focuses on "integration " of the dissociative experience induced by ketamine, and suggests this may produce...
The therapeutic benefits of psychedelics for neuropsychiatric conditions have gathered significant attention in Europe and around the world, with treatments using psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine as notable examples. However, the mind-altering effects of these substances, and the complexity of their regulatory frameworks, both within and outside of therapeutic use, imply careful clinical...
This conceptual article proposes a pedagogical model for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) listening instruction grounded in the Vedic learning tradition of t i sravana (attentive listening), manana (reflective contemplation), and nididhyasana (deep meditation and internalization). Although EFL pedagogy in the modern world focuses on bottom-up and top-down processing theories, the models do...