Background. In the context of an increasing pace of life and growing psycho-emotional stress, especially in the educational environment, finding effective methods for increasing awareness and emotional regulation remains an urgent task for modern psychology. Despite the growing interest in breathing practices, their impact on awareness and emotional regulation in the context of energy-resource...
The paper “Role of Yoga in the Treatment of Mental Illness: A Philosophical Evaluation” explores yoga as a multidimensional therapeutic system addressing the cognitive, affective, physiological, and existential dimensions of mental illness. Moving beyond its popular physical connotations, yoga is examined here as an integrated discipline grounded in Indian philosophical traditions - especially...
ABSTRACTIn the development of communication science, attention to spiritual and transcendental dimensions is still relatively minimal. This study aims to explore the meaning and process of transcendental communication between humans and God from a Sufism perspective. Transcendental communication is understood as a form of vertical and spiritual inner interaction, in which humans try to unite...
Whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can possess emotions, consciousness, and subjective experience has long been a focal point of academic debate. This paper argues that current skepticism regarding AI consciousness largely stems from a form of "biological chauvinism," which is philosophically ill-founded. First, this paper traces the philosophical roots of "biological chauvinism," from...
This research examines the neurocognitive and psychological effects of Tajwid al-Qur'an, the combined practice of Tajwid (Precise Recitation) and Tadabbur (Deep Contemplation), through a systematic review of neuroscience research. The findings demonstrate that Qur’anic recitation enhances brain function by increasing Alpha Waves (Associated with Relaxation) and Delta Waves (Linked to Deep...
The paper examines the interplay between the concept of the possible and the “peripatetic” style of thinking in Henry David Thoreau’s thought. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of perception, it first sketches an account of the embodied self engaged in walking, paying particular attention to the reciprocity between the walker’s moving body and the pace of thoughts. It argues that in...
This study asks what it means to question quietness (hēsychia): to treat a state cultivated in long silence as something that can, after an unpredictable wait, be brought to speech. Its primary witness is the spiritual autobiography of Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov (1896–1993), read alongside the transcribed record of his Monday meetings with the monastic community of St John the Baptist in...
Does being awake necessarily mean being conscious of something? This study investigates the phenomenon of mind blanking (MB), characterized by an "emptiness of mind," comparing it with mind wandering (MW) and on-task (ON) states. Using a sustained attention task and electroencephalogram monitoring, behavioral, and neurophysiological signatures of MB were examined in 62 participants. MB...
This study aimed to examine the impact of practicing psychological enlightenment techniques—including mindful meditation and mental awareness—on psychological stress, mental and physical recovery, and athletic performance among athletes in the Sultanate of Oman. The study adopted a descriptive-analytical approach. Data were collected through a specially designed questionnaire administered to a...
Bu çalışma, çağdaş bilişsel bilimin 4E kuramı —bedenlenmiş (embodied), gömülü (embedded), etkinleşimci (enactive) ve yayılmış (extended) biliş— bağlamında Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009) filmini inceleyerek, sinema deneyiminin duyusal-zihinsel yapısını “algısal ihlal” ve “algısal akışkanlık” kavramlarıyla çözümlemektedir. Bu iki kavram, doğrudan bu çalışmada üretilmiş olup, film deneyimini...