Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found in Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, asceticism and esotericism. Sufism is a path of spiritual advancements cum expansion of consciousness leading to awareness of self in the universe. The practice of Sufism leads to the development of innate spiritual and initiative abilities. Ancient...
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience. What are smells? Despite the best efforts of philosophy and the chemosciences, the question remains vexing—but no more perplexing than the historical lapse of the past few centuries to seriously consider a sense that...
This study explores the benefits of meditation for student achievement, focusing on the application of three components of information processing theory: cognitive processes, information storage, and executive cognition. The subjects of the study were randomly selected students from SMP Dharma Loka Pekanbaru. The service involved four meditation training sessions, including guided meditation...
For biographer John Baxter, J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962) echoes the work of neurophysiologist John C. Lilly, who, from 1954 onwards, conducted a series of sensory deprivation experiments with floatation tanks. Lilly’s work paralleled that of psychologist Donald O. Hebb. Hebb used soundproof isolation chambers to simulate the withdrawal of sensory stimuli from test subjects. James...
CureusAugust 2024D Naresh, D Logesh, B Lakshmi Dorai et al.
Musical hallucinations (MH) represent a rare and complex auditory phenomenon where individuals perceive music without external stimuli. This case study explores auditory Charles Bonnet syndrome (ACBS) in a 51-year-old male with a history of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. The patient reported hearing recognizable prayer chants, initially perceived as external sounds from a nearby temple....
Abstract: This article presents the results of a psychometric evaluation and initial validation of the French version of the Experiences Questionnaire (EQ-F), a self-report measure of decentering. Decentering is the ability to maintain a detached stance toward one’s thoughts and emotions and is related to adaptive psychological functioning. Study 1 explored the EQ-F’s factor structure and...
Brain and BehaviorAugust 1, 2024Muhammad Usman, Tzzy‐Ping Jung, Ding‐Yun Hsin et al.4 citations
PURPOSE: This study aimed to assess how a Zentangle intervention influences cognitive focus, emotional well-being, stress levels, and neural activity patterns across brain regions and frequency bands. METHOD: A cohort of 30 healthy adults, all without prior Zentangle experience, participated in this study. Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure their brain activity, and self-reported...
Presented here is a novel graphical, structural, and functional model of the embodied mind. Despite strictly adhering to a physicalistic and reductionist approach, this model successfully resolves the apparent contradiction between the thesis regarding the causal closure of the physical realm and the widely held common-sense belief that the mental realm can influence physical behavior....
The classical mind-body problem persists as one of the deepest scientific mysteries. Despite the grand claims of the new AI, some of the most basic facts of human vision cannot be explained by current or proposed theories of brain structure and function. This paper reviews some well-known mysteries including the neural binding problem, blind sight, subjective experience and prosthetics. There...
This article argues that contemporary debates of the 'hard problem' of consciousness (i.e.how does 'mindless' matter produce 'matterless' mind?) cannot be resolved through philosophical analysis alone and need to be anchored to a comprehensive empirical foundation that includes psychophysiological research of psychosomatic phenomena and exceptional human experience. First, alternative...