Adolescent identity crisis has increasingly emerged as a multidimensional psychosocial phenomenon characterized not only by emotional instability and social confusion but also by spiritual disconnection and existential uncertainty. This study aims to synthesize contemporary literature on adolescent identity crisis and propose an integrative psychospiritual framework combining healing da’wah and...
Martin Heidegger’s distinction between calculative and meditative thinking can be read as a contrast between two orientations of consciousness: a seeking orientation that approaches what appears through projects and possibilities, and a receptive orientation that allows what appears to remain present. That distinction, developed in a companion paper, is powerful but coarse. It names two poles...
BackgroundMindfulness, when applied to eating, involves attention to the physical and emotional sensation of eating and satiety without judgement. This awareness may in turn modulate the desire to eat, choice and amount of food, and eating speed.AimsThis study aimed to examine the effect of a community-based mindful eating program on eating behavior and wellness.MethodNourish to Flourish is a...
This project archives Paper 1 of the Contemplative Neuroscience Research Programme. The manuscript develops a theoretical and testable framework for examining prolonged contemplative isolation as a convergent multivariable intervention capable of altering neural noise, brain dynamics, and functional dominance—and, as a bounded speculative extension, sensitivity to ordinarily masked biological...
Published in Paris in 1977, Mahmud Shah Qureshi’s Poèmes Mystiques Bengalis was the first substantial anthology to translate Bengali Baul and Fakir songs directly from Bengali into French. Prepared within the broader intellectual and cultural framework of UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works, the volume introduced French readers to the mystical, philosophical, and performative traditions...
Mental imagery is viewed as a fundamental component of human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, future simulation, and conscious experience. Although mental imagery vividness has traditionally been attributed to differences in sensory processing, emerging evidence suggests that internally generated images are also shaped by ongoing bodily and interoceptive signals. Here, we...
Der Beitrag plädiert für eine stärkere Integration von Religiosität und Spiritualität in die Psychotherapie. Nach einem historischen Überblick zur Trennung beider Bereiche werden zentrale Vorläufer einer Annäherung vorgestellt. Anschließend werden religiös-spirituelle Ressourcen wie Achtsamkeit, Meditation, Gebet, Vergebung und Sinnorientierung als therapeutische Elemente diskutiert. Studien...
Background. The necessity of transitioning from a linear-mechanistic model of the psyche to understanding it as a dynamic predictive system is substantiated. The methodological and applied prospects of such a transformation for psychology and psychotherapy are demonstrated. Modern concepts in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience that treat the psyche as a self-organizing system...
In this review essay, I survey James K. A. Smith’s use of contemporary arts and mystical texts to spur philosophers to reimagine their discipline as a practice of thinking that might be called a contemplative phenomenology of wonder sensitive to the mystery of existence. In the process, I identify the isomorphism Smith sees between contemporary arts and the disciplines described in mystical...
There has been much critical writing about guilt, morality and psychological agony in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The psychological conflicts involved in Raskolnikov’s divided consciousness have been a subject of numerous psychoanalytical interpretations, but the connection between his self-fashioning of ideology and psychological conflict is open to further analysis. In...