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October 1, 2024 William Kingsland
The mystical teaching concerning knowledge of God is simply that God is unknown to or by any but Himself. It is linked up with the teachings of the Divine Nature of Man. Man can only know God as he himself becomes God. The lower personality, governed only by the rational mind or intellect, can neither know or legitimately postulate anything about God. This knowledge of God in virtue of man’s...
Journal of Consciousness Studies October 1, 2024 Hedda Hassel Mørch
Panpsychism is the view that all things are associated with consciousness. Panpsychism has a number of significant theoretical implications, with respect to the mind–body problem and other problems in metaphysics. Here I will consider one of its potential practical or ethical implications; specifically, whether, if panpsychism is true, it follows that 'we are all one', in a sense that implies...
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion October 1, 2024 Joshua Lipson, Thomas Ford, Miles Beattie et al.
ABSTRACT The present study aimed to characterize the relationship between mystical experience and psychopathology measures in a general-population sample of 763 U.S. adults. The participants were assessed across various domains including psychopathology, spirituality, personality, and life experience. The analysis revealed three distinct profiles among individuals: Transcendent Wellness,...
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity October 1, 2024 Itay Ricon-Becker, Taylor N West, Barbara L. Fredrickson et al.
To address the challenge of predicting psychological response to a psychosocial intervention we tested the possibility that baseline gene expression profiles might provide information above and beyond baseline psychometric measures. The genomics strategy utilized individual level inferences of transcription factor activity to predict changes in loneliness and affect in response to two...
eNeuro October 1, 2024 Michael S A Graziano
Illusionism is a general philosophical framework in which specific theories of consciousness can be constructed without having to invoke a magical mind essence. The advantages of illusionism are not widely recognized, perhaps because scholars tend to think only of the most extreme forms and miss the range of possibilities. The brain's internal models are never fully accurate, nothing is exactly...
Contemporary Clinical Trials October 1, 2024 Emily K. Johnson, Kathleen Ismond, Ashley Hyde et al. 3 citations
Symptoms of depression and anxiety are prevalent among adults with chronic health conditions, contributing to reduced quality of life, morbidity, and mortality. Mind-body wellness interventions (i.e. psychology programming, mindful movement, breathwork, meditation) may impact mental health symptoms, with online delivery offering access and scalability. Whether online mind-body wellness...
arXiv (Cornell University) September 30, 2024 Jeremy I Skipper, Joanna Kuć, Gregory M. Cooper et al. preprint
How is language related to consciousness? Language functions to categorise perceptual experiences (e.g., labelling interoceptive states as 'happy') and higher-level constructs (e.g., using 'I' to represent the narrative self). Psychedelic use and meditation might be described as altered states that impair or intentionally modify the capacity for linguistic categorisation. For example,...
Journal of Big History September 28, 2024 Stephen B. Ripley
Interest has been renewed in the study of consciousness, both theoretical and applied, following developments in 20th and early 21st century logic, metamathematics, computer science, and the brain sciences. In this evolving historical narrative, I explore several theoretical questions about the types of artificial intelligence and offer several conjectures about how they affect possible future...
Philosophical Studies September 27, 2024 Seth Goldwasser 3 citations
Abstract This essay defends the claim that episodic remembering is a mental action by arguing that episodic remembering and sensory- or experience-like imagining are of a kind in a way relevant for agency. Episodic remembering is a type of imaginative project that involves the agential construction of imagistic-content and that aims at (veridically) representing particular events of the...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) September 27, 2024 Prabir Kumar Chatterjee, Prachi Indurkar
This article explores the hindrances to Samadhi in the 21st century by drawing comparisons between ancient Vedic, later Vedic, and contemporary Western philosophical insights. Samadhi, the state of profound meditation and spiritual absorption, has been a focal point across texts like the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Darshana. Traditional challenges to Samadhi include distractions,...