The paper is the third article in the Pali-Psycho series. It compares the Pali Canon with the Desert Fathers, Rhineland Mysticism, Carmelite Mysticism, and Ignatian Spirituality. The analysis uses the convergence-type schema developed in the preceding integrative article and distinguishes empirical, structural-phenomenological, conceptual, and no-parallel relations. The central result is...
An essay on sleep as the separation of mind and body, written by someone who does not get much of it. It moves from a joke in a cartoon to the genetics of familial natural short sleep and the contemplative traditions that train the mind to stay awake while the body rests, and it is careful to say which of those the author is standing in — neither. The sleep genetics describes a rare inherited...
Aim of the study: This comprehensive review aims to compile the corpus of research on the therapeutic effectiveness of yoga in enhancing the mental health and well-being of new mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression. The present study is an attempt to look at how yoga practice in the postnatal period after delivery of the baby can help in reducing the symptoms of postpartum depression...
Contemporary cosmopsychism—including priority cosmopsychism (Shani; Nagasawa and Wager) and Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism—treats the cosmic subject as prior and actual, and so inherits the decombination problem: How does one complete cosmic consciousness divide into many private subjects? This essay argues that the difficulty stems from a tacit temporal assumption—that the One precedes...
Compassion-based interventions have been shown to improve numerous mental health outcomes. However, they are time- and effort-intensive and are associated with high dropout rates. Virtual Reality (VR) could be a useful tool to enhance compassion practice by immersing users in a VR environment, thus facilitating the construction and sustainment of mental images necessary for the practice. The...
Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi integrasi konseptual ruqyah berbasis sufistik sebagai salah satu bentuk mindfulness Islami melalui perspektif psikologi transpersonal dan psikoneuroi-munologi. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan Systematic Literature Review (SLR), penelitian ini mengkaji bagaimana praktik penyembuhan Islam tradisional dapat dipahami dalam kerangka psikologis dan fisiologis kontemporer....
The human desire to survive death is not new. Religious traditions, philosophical systems, memorial practices, and popular culture have long offered ways of imagining continuity beyond biological life, whether through heaven, reincarnation, ancestral presence, symbolic immortality, or cultural remembrance (Bhargava; Cave; Iglesias et al.; Lifton; Nairn; Nairn and Matthews). What is changing,...
This chapter introduces Prana-Centered AI, a pioneering framework that blends ancient yogic energetics with modern intelligent wellness technologies. While contemporary AI-powered wearables excel at tracking physiological data, they overlook the subtle dimensions of human vitality described in classical yoga, Prana, Nadis, Chakras, and the subtle body. Prana-Centered AI bridges this gap through...
This article examines the role of contemplative activities in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), synthesizing theoretical foundations, empirical evidence, and practical implications. Contemplative teaching, characterized by mindfulness, compassion, and integrity, represents a holistic approach that engages learners’ cognitive, affective, and somatic dimensions. The review analyzes...
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