A expansão de programas de meditação em contextos escolares tem sido sustentada por um corpus crescente de evidências científicas, cuja produção permanece concentrada no Norte Global e desvinculada das condições socioculturais dos contextos que os recebem. Este artigo analisa como a implementação da atenção plena nas escolas expressa e reproduz a colonialidade do saber, identificando três...
Sleep quality is thought to be crucial for the development of the body, mind, and brain during adolescence. Due to erratic daily schedules, academic demands, and psychological stress, sleep-related problems among teenagers are quickly increasing in the modern era. The current study's goal was to find out how chanting the Shiva Sankalpa Sukta affected teenagers' sleep quality. Seventy teenagers...
This study aims to describe the practice of Chan Meditation carried out by the Mahayana Buddhist community at Ekayana Serpong Temple, Tangerang Regency, Banten, and to examine its adaptation and effectiveness in the digital era. A qualitative method with a psychology of religion approach was used, involving observation, in-depth interviews with practitioners and community leaders, and...
.I study what is known about the extent to which group minds shape the content of dreams and suggest we can interact consciously with some group minds during the lucid dreaming state. Typical dreams are thoroughly social, typically depicting dreamer interactions with characters that represent the group minds he/she is a member of.
I examine more closely the question of whether and how we can voluntarily access and benefit from accessing group mind content. I argue that some of the experiences on serotonergic psychedelics can be seen in terms of unstructured access to a variety of group minds. The ego dissolution experience on psychedelics can be viwed in terms of fusion between the individual and some salient group mind.
Chapter 10 : The Doors of Perception explores how altered states unlock consciousness’ vast but ordinarily constrained potential. Drawing on Aldous Huxley’s mescaline experiments and his notion of the brain as a “reducing valve,” the chapter follows how chemical mysticism, meditative practices, and rational inquiry by figures such as Richard Feynman open access to hidden territories of...
Does our application of concepts in perception have a role in our understanding of the objectivity of what we perceive? I clarify a specific version of this question and present an argument for an affirmative answer: Conceptualism. I develop an objection to the resulting position drawing on Mackie's discussion in “Perception, Mind-Independence, and Berkeley”, offer an alternative...
Transformasi meditasi dari akar spiritual Buddhis menuju instrumen pedagogi sekuler menandai pergeseran paradigma yang signifikan dalam upaya mengurangi stres dan tantangan akademik pada pendidikan modern. Ditengah popularitasnya yang berada dititik puncak, karya ilmiah yang tersedia masih terlihat terpecah. Tidak sinkronnya menajam pada perdebatan mengenai sejauh mana adaptasi budaya...
Kesehatan mental menjadi isu penting dalam kehidupan modern yang ditandai dengan meningkatnya tingkat stres dan gangguan psikologis. Dalam konteks ini, meditasi Buddhis menawarkan pendekatan yang bersifat transformatif melalui pengembangan kesadaran dan pemurnian batin. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran meditasi Buddhis dalam menjaga kesehatan mental serta mengidentifikasi...
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a REM sleep parasomnia characterized by transient motor paralysis during sleep onset or awakening. It is a terrifying experience often accompanied by vivid hallucinations. Although it is classically linked to narcolepsy, isolated SP in healthy individuals offers a valuable model to investigate the interaction between REM sleep physiology and conscious awareness. In a...