This article introduces the practice of meditation and contemplative prayer within Christianity, following the spiritual school of the Jesuit fathers Franz Jálics and Péter Mustó. It explains that meditation, rather than a theory, is a practice that requires an attitude of relaxed attention and an open presence to reality. Meditation is not about concentration or the exertion of active will but...
This article asks how the mystical dimension and spiritual experience in Certeau's work dialogue with the current challenges of Latin American spirituality and theology. The text aims to establish a critical dialogue between Michel de Certeau's analysis of mysticism and the current challenges of Latin American Spirituality (LAS) and Theology (LAT). Certeau's work highlighted the singularities...
A scientific exploration of consciousness through the lens of subjective experience by leading interdisciplinary scholars. This volume brings together international scholars from neuroscience, mathematics, physics, neurophenomenology, psychology, cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the study of Indian and Buddhist contemplative traditions. The book explores fundamental questions such as: Is...
December 16, 2025Hamed Jamalpour, Zahra Jamalpour, Manzar Feiz
Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” transcends a mere war narrative. It delves into the profound assault on the human psyche and body experienced by soldiers grappling with combat horrors. This paper argues that a neurophenomenological framework offers a crucial lens for understanding these experiences, particularly their embodied responses to sensory overload and the enduring impact of...
Truths are as fragile as the people who have formulated them.-Andreas Steinhöfel, 2005 Overview Biology, chemistry, and physics are the building blocks of a materialist worldview of consciousness; conversely, consciousness is needed in order to comprehend and investigate these fields.This circularity and the apparent lack of an independent foundation of science are major challenges for...
ReflectionsI come to the study of consciousness and the self through my training as a Buddhist monk and scholar, who has learned about the mind and the self from Tibetan teachers, the meditations they taught, and the voluminous lit er a ture of this tradition.It was a welcome surprise to realize that the insights that I gained through my studies and practice could be of use in the scientific...
How I Lost All Interest in the Study of Consciousness and SurvivedPrologue: In 2008, when I was still a MA student, I came across an essay by David Chalmers.At the time, I had not heard about either Chal mers or consciousness, and I eagerly rushed to share this mind-blowing revelation with my favorite lecturer, only to hear that this was old news.Still, it felt like a bomb had just been dropped...
This article examines the emergence of a range of new spiritual practices reshaping traditional religious expressions within Nordic Lutheran churches over the last fifty years. These holistic practices, which include meditation, yoga, sacred dance, and other creative forms of expression, integrate influences from Eastern traditions, folk religiosity including New Age practices, and secular...
The conference I attended in Neve Shalom, which addressed the study of consciousness, was especially impor tant to me.It provided me with an opportunity to engage in an enlightening and inspiring meeting with a wide range of individuals and scholars for whom the mystery of human cognition and consciousness is a burning question.This meeting of philosophers, neurobiologists, scholars of culture,...
The chapter you are about to read is much about how other minds played a role in shaping my views and theories about consciousness.It only seemed natu ral to me from the outset that the phenomenology of subjective experience should play a pivotal role in a scientific theory of consciousness.But my intuitions found firmer methodological ground in my brief yet meaningful, and retrospectively...