Salah (Islamic ritual prayer) is one of the fundamental practices of Islam and constitutes a recurring form of worship through which Muslims cultivate remembrance of Allah, spiritual consciousness, humility, discipline, and moral responsibility. Beyond its theological significance, growing academic interest has examined prayer and related religious practices in relation to psychological...
This article offers a critical and interdisciplinary review of Saumya Liyanage’s Lamp in a Windless Place: Phenomenology and Performance (2025), situating the work within global performance studies, phenomenology, and anthropological discourse. The book proposes a body–mind paradigm grounded in continental philosophy and Asian somatic traditions, particularly Sri Lankan martial arts and...
This section documents three immersive performances by the Dead White Zombies collective in Dallas, demonstrating the book&s;s methodologies in practice. (W)hole transformed a 32,000-square-foot industrial building into a meditation on death and afterlife, inspired by Dogon mask rituals witnessed in Burkina Faso. kaRaoKe MoTeL explored rebirth through a former icehouse, using ritual structure,...
Abstract This essay compares how John Scottus Eriugena and thinkers associated with what has been called the ‘Medieval Dionysian Affective Tradition’ interpret the role of love in mystical union according to the works of Dionysius the Areopagite. At stake are two issues that challenge commonly held assumptions about Eriugena’s work. First, Eriugena is generally regarded as an intellectualist...
Purpose Western business ethics frameworks, such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics and stakeholder theory, guide ethical reasoning; however, ethical failures within organizations remain a widespread phenomenon. This study aims to address this gap by integrating Buddhist ethical philosophy, specifically the Eightfold Noble Path, the Four Noble Truths and Vipassana meditation, into...
This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first section analyses and explains Lāhījī’s teachings concerning the necessary prerequisites for the mystical path of the ṭarīqat . The Way of the Sufi friends and darvīshes is a way of life that involves the daily practice of a host of ascetical and contemplative practices. When practised sincerely under the spiritual guidance of a living Sufi...
We examine the claim that a minimal-conceptual, “bare” awareness underlies ordinary experience, and whether this pre-conceptual awareness (PCA, or minimal-dual awareness) should be understood primarily as an earlier, biologically rooted developmental baseline, or as a disclosure of a deeper ontological reality. The Retrieval hypothesis treats PCA as a cognitive–neural default mode that can be...
Understanding how intention and karmic accumulation occur within Buddhist ethics benefits from examining the cognitive sequence (citta-vīthi) described in Theravāda Abhidhamma. Standard manuals describe this process for isolated stimuli, but leave open how competing or overlapping objects are resolved under the system’s timing constraints. This paper introduces a typology of attentional capture...
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...