Neuroscience of Consciousness
2025
Adam Safron, Arthur Juliani, Nicco Reggente et al.
44 citations
How is it that psychedelics so profoundly impact brain and mind? According to the model of "Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics" (REBUS), 5-HT2a agonism is thought to help relax prior expectations, thus making room for new perspectives and patterns. Here, we introduce an alternative (but largely compatible) perspective, proposing that REBUS effects may primarily correspond to a particular (but...
Revista Review Index Journal of Multidisciplinary
December 31, 2024
Kanchan Ghosh
This paper explores René Descartes’ idea of the self, focusing on its philosophical, metaphysical, and epistemological aspects. I examine how Descartes establishes the certainty of the self as a thinking substance, apart from the body, and capable of self-awareness by using the method of radical doubt and the cogito. The study highlights the conflict between the self’s undeniable existence and...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
December 31, 2024
Jin-keon Moon
Transpersonal psychotherapy proposes a series of systematic diagnoses and treatments in the integration of spiritual psychology. This study aims to analyze the treatment cases of John Welwood and Seymoor Boorstein, who are renowned transpersonal psychotherapists, to identify the specific treatments they used in their treatment cases with clients/patients and to reveal common diagnostic...
International Research Journal of MMC
December 31, 2024
I. Subba
प्रस्तुत लेख जेन रहस्यान्वेषणका मूलभूत पक्षको अध्ययन गर्नुमा केन्द्रित छ । रहस्यवादका क्षेत्रमा भिन्न धारणा लिएर देखापरेको जेन एउटा ध्यान प्रणाली हो जसमा चेतनाको प्रमुख भूमिका रहेको हुन्छ । मनोवैज्ञानिक रूपमा मानसिक गतिविधिको प्रक्रियासितै चेतनाको उद्भावनामा जेन रहस्यवादले गति प्राप्त गर्दछ । व्यक्तिमा रहेको मानसिक प्रकृतिको अन्वेषण गर्दै परिपूर्ण रूपमा शून्यज्ञ भई सतोरी प्राप्त गर्नु जेन...
Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne
December 31, 2024
R. S. Niziński
The article addresses whether Christians can employ classical yoga or Zen-Buddhism meditation techniques to attain Christian perfection by invoking the spiritual doctrines of the Carmelite saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Jesus, with particular emphasis on John of the Cross’s concept of ‘nothingness’. It investigates the interpretation of this term within these three traditions to...
Humanities and Meditation Research Institute
December 31, 2024
Hyun-Jin(InHae) Kim
This study confirms the effectiveness of a compassion program for middle-aged people. The research questions of this study are as follows. ‘Is there a difference in compassion before and after participating in a self-compassion program for middle-aged and older adults?’ For this purpose, a compassion program for middle-aged people was conducted on 20 middle-aged participants. The effectiveness...
Anveṣaṇā
December 31, 2024
Randika Perera, Yaparathna Weerasekara
The state of samādhi has been explored by several scholars and emphasizes this state as one pointedness of the mind. However, later, considered the state of samādhi as concentration or one-pointedness recognized as a misconception, it highlights the need to study samādhi in-depth and holistically. Moving to the religious and philosophical traditions of Buddhism and Yoga, under its...
Journal of Humanities Research Sustainability
December 31, 2024
Nurlatipah Nurlatipah, Wei Li, Zhang Li
Background. The background of this research is based on a long debate between dualism, which separates the mind as a non-physical entity, and materialism, which sees full consciousness as the result of physical processes in the brain. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to explore an integrative approach that tries to bring these two views together to provide a more comprehensive...
Indonesian Journal of Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies
December 31, 2024
Mudasir Ahmad, Tariq Khan
In this paper, an attempt has been made to discuss the inclusive approach of cognitive science with Islamic philosophy. Islamic philosophy has put forth a significant role in the development of cognitive science. The emergence of cognitive science in Islamic philosophy commences with the knowledge about heart, soul, ‘reasoning’, ‘aql’, cognition ‘marifat’ contemplation ‘fikr’ meditation ‘zikr’,...
Medical education online
December 31, 2024
Sabyasachi Maity, Raman Abbaspour, Stephan Bandelow et al.
23 citations
Non-clinical approaches such as meditation, yoga, and mindfulness are popular traditional therapeutical interventions adopted by many educational institutions to improve the physical and mental well-being of learners. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of yoga intervention in improving cardiopulmonary parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, pulmonary function tests and...