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The MIT Press eBooks February 6, 2024
Without an observer.Nobody on the cushion meditating.Every thing on the cushion meditating.[#635] I perceived subject and object as the same substance, facing each other like the two inner surfaces of a folded sheet of paper.As if subject and object were created by folding the fundamental substance and the observer were placed arbitrarily on one of the two sides.[#2916] There was a...
February 6, 2024 Thomas Metzinger
An engaging and insightful journey into human consciousness. What if our goal had not been to land on Mars, but in pure consciousness? The experience of pure consciousness—what does it look like? What is the essence of human consciousness? In The Elephant and the Blind, influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than...
arXiv Preprint Archive February 6, 2024 Raoni Arroyo, Lauro de Matos Nunes Filho, Frederik Moreira dos Santos preprint
According to a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics, the causal role of human consciousness in the measuring process is called upon to solve a foundational problem called the "measurement problem". Traditionally, this interpretation is tied up with the metaphysics of substance dualism. As such, this interpretation of quantum mechanics inherits the dualist's mind-body problem. Our...
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine February 2, 2024 B. O'Mahony, G. Brar
This review covers the story of shamans, political upheaval, life-changing and magical experiences, and the most mind-altering substances on earth. No, this is not a review of the latest magical-realism best-seller, but rather a sound scientific and well-researched book by an esteemed psychiatrist and academic, Professor David Nutt. In his latest book ‘ Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs...
New North Star A Journal of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass February 2, 2024 Heather L. Kaufman
Scholars of many disciplines have used the three autobiographies of escaped Maryland slave Frederick Douglass as valuable tools to help understand both slavery and the status of African Americans in post-emancipation United States.This essay employs the insights of analytic psychology to assess Douglass's reflections in his autobiographies of pivotal movements on his path to freedom.In...
Journal of Consciousness Studies February 1, 2024 Mostyn Jones
Neuroelectrical panpsychism (NP) offers a clear, simple, testable mind–body solution. It says that everything is at least minimally conscious, and electrical activity across separate neurons creates a unified, intelligent mind. NP draws on recent experimental evidence to address the easy problem of specifying the mind's neural correlates. These correlates are neuroelectrical activities that,...
Journal of Consciousness Studies February 1, 2024 Julien Tempone-Wiltshire 12 citations
Contemplative scholarship has recently reoriented attention towards the neuroscientific study of the soteriological ambition of Buddhist practice, 'awakening'. This article evaluates the project of seeking neural correlates for awakening. Key definitional and operational issues are identified demonstrating that: the nature of awakening is highly contested both within and across Buddhist...
Frontiers in Psychiatry February 1, 2024 Phil Wolfson, Gita Vaid 17 citations
Psychiatry is in a growth phase in which several psychedelic medicines have entered its arena with great promise. Of these, presently, ketamine is the only medicine that may be legally prescribed. We hypothesize that at subanesthetic doses, ketamine produces a unique spectrum of altered states, ranging from psychoactive to deep ego-dissolving experiences, that are intrinsic to ketamine’s...
Phytochemistry February 1, 2024 Rubi Barman, Pranjit Kumar Bora, Jadumoni Saikia et al. 9 citations
The family Myristicaceae harbour mind-altering phenylpropanoids like myristicin, elemicin, safrole, tryptamine derivatives such as N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and 5-methoxy N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) and β-carbolines such as 1-methyl-6-methoxy-dihydro-β-carboline and 2-methyl-6-methoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-β-carboline. This study aimed to systematically review and propose the...
Proceedings Of International Conference On Communication Science January 31, 2024 Alwi Mahardhika Sodiq, Mochamad Widjanarko
Pesugihan is a mystical ritual carried out by individuals in secret and unreasonable to obtain wealth involving mystical rituals of shamanic practices. The purpose of this research is to find out the psychological dynamics and how to interpret an individual who performs the pesugihan ritual. Data exploration was carried out by analyzing the basic motivations, both intrinsic and extrinsic, from...