Various authors, including myself, have argued that happiness and morality operate in a circularly supportive relationship. In this paper, love will be added to this relationship. The new triple correlation will be explored through the following lens: not only do love and happiness reinforce moral action, but they appear to be in a triple circularly supportive relationship. Moral behavior is...
The self is central to spirituality because the self is necessary for consciousness, and spiritual relations are fundamentally about the self. Diverse research illustrates the role of the downregulation of the right parietal lobe (rPL) in the spontaneous manifestation of spiritual experiences and during meditative practices. The functions of the rPL are central to the self, especially the...
Ansietas merupakan gangguan psikologis yang sering dialami oleh lanjut usia, terutama mereka yang tinggal di panti sosial akibat perubahan lingkungan, kehilangan peran sosial, dan keterbatasan interaksi dengan keluarga. Salah satu intervensi non-farmakologis yang dapat diterapkan oleh perawat untuk mengurangi ansietas adalah mindfull therapy. Tujuan penelitian ini diketahuinya penerapan...
Penelitian ini membahas tentang Meditasi-Analisi praktek terhadap Mikrohioma Usus dan Kesehatan Mental. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dampak dari praktik Meditasi Metta (Cinta Kasih) terhadap komposisi mikrobioma usus dan dampaknya pada kesehatan mental, khususnya gejala kecemasan dan depresi. Meditasi Metta, yang merupakan bentuk meditasi loving-kindness, dikenal efektif dalam...
Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the impact of psychedelics on social perception and cognition may be instrumental to unravel their therapeutic potential. We conducted a pharmacoimaging study to examine ayahuasca's effects on a key theory of mind region, at the core of the third visual pathway (TVP) - the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), which is involved in facial...
Magnesium-ibogaine, a formulation combining ibogaine with pre- and post-treatment magnesium, was recently found to yield rapid clinical improvements in U.S. Special Operations veterans with TBI and PTSD. Yet, its therapeutic phenomenology during such healing is unknown. We analyzed post-session narratives from 30 male veterans who, after a single open-label magnesium-ibogaine treatment,...
This issue of Agatheos has its origins in an important passing of a torch within the philosophy of religion.Linda Zagzebski was the Kingfisher Chair in Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma for over twenty years until her retirement in 2021.She was succeeded in January of 2024 by Yujin Nagasawa, who left a research chair in Birmingham for the honor.Zagzebski and Nagasawa, in...
Frontiers in PsychologyJanuary 30, 2026Nina Zech, Martin H. J. Busch, Veronika K. Jaeger et al.
Introduction: Mind-body interventions are increasingly used in health care, both for physical and for psychological therapy. With directing the focus to the body and inner experiences they include elements of trance induction and hypnosis. The scope of this experimental study was to test the hypothesis that a non-ordinary state of consciousness may occur during a mind-body intervention with...
This paper argues that artificial intelligence and human cognition develop in opposite directions. Humans start with embodied experience (living in the world) and gradually develop the ability to recognize patterns and make predictions. AI systems do the reverse: they start by recognizing patterns in data but lack the embodied continuity that grounds human understanding. Drawing on Buddhist...
The problem of evil and the problem of consciousness occupy central positions in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of mind, respectively. On the face of it, these problems seem to be fundamentally distinct. The problem of evil is concerned with whether the existence of evil in the world undermines belief in the existence of God while the problem of consciousness concerns the nature...