Deleuze and Guattari Studies
November 1, 2023
Erica Biolchini
This article proposes a different aesthetic state of Gilles Deleuze’s crystal-image defined as ‘psychedelic crystal’, a formation of the crystalline regime in light of the contemporary revival of scientific research exploring the healing potentialities of hallucinogenic drugs. The proposition of the psychedelic crystal occurs between Deleuze’s crystals of time, the therapeutic dimension of...
Journal of Nursing Scholarship
November 1, 2023
Susan Musto, April Hazard Vallerand
21 citations
The purpose of this paper was to review and synthesize published research articles that have utilized yoga nidra as an intervention. Yoga nidra is a form of guided meditation that has emerged in the literature in the past two decades as an intervention for a variety of medical conditions such as stress and mental health. It differs from traditional yoga, in that it does not require yoga poses....
Asia Journal Theology
October 31, 2023
Moe Moe Nyunt
This article is a comparative study of two orthodox religious practices: the Orthodox Buddhist practice of vipassana meditation and the Orthodox Christian practice of hesychastic prayer. The article acknowledges that both religions share the common idea of meditation/contemplation as an inner journey toward enlightenment. On the one hand, the Buddhist yogi is enlightened by observing the...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
October 31, 2023
Shaun Gallagher
171 citations
This Element discusses contemporary theories of embodied cognition, including what has been termed the '4Es' (embodied, embedded, extended and enactive cognition). It examines diverse approaches to questions about the nature of the mind, the mind's relation to the brain, perceptual experience, mental representation, sense making, the role of the environment, and social cognition, and it...
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс
October 30, 2023
Olga Vakhovska
This paper focuses on the theoretical concept of subjectivity in the translation of metaphors of depressive emotions in W. Styron’s Darkness visible: A memoir of madness into Russian. In his memoir, the author interprets his emotions and names them via metaphors; these interpretations are driven by images in the author’s mind. An image-driven interpretation in translation is a creative act of...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
October 27, 2023
Patricia Pisters
1 citation
This article focuses on the aesthetics of the psychedelic experience. Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception remains one of the few studies that investigates the aesthetic dimension of the psychedelic experience as profoundly meaningful as such, because it gives direct attention to the nonhuman otherness of the universe that is hard to describe in words, but that can be felt and sensed. Similarly,...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
October 27, 2023
Amir Vudka
1 citation
The films and live cinema of Vincent Moon are considered in this chapter as ‘psychedelic’: a form of filmmaking and film performances that can open the doors of perception to invisible realms of percepts, affects and durations that are beyond or below ordinary human perception. According to Paul Schrader, films can evoke such spiritual dimensions, in particular through what he called the...
Psychedelic Experience
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
1 citation
Abstract This chapter explores the thesis that the empirically observed benefits of meditation and psychedelics on well-being can be accounted for in terms of their tendency to reveal the mind. The chapter proposes a more general explanation that goes beyond psychedelic experience by utilising the conceptual framework of psychedelic space (developed in chapter 3). Briefly stated, the...
Psychedelic Experience
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
Abstract This chapter addresses another potential objection to the hypothesis that psychedelics reveal the mind: if psychedelics induce creativity and the generation of novel ideas, then this suggests that they are mind-creating, rather than mind-revealing. The chapter argues that while some cases of psychedelic-induced creativity are instances of mind-creation, other cases are likely due to...
Psychedelic Experience
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
Abstract This chapter explores the idea that some memory recollections count as psychedelic experiences and that they can occur spontaneously, during and after meditation, and as a result of consuming psychedelic substances. The chapter also introduces the concept of mindfulness and unpacks the deep and important connection between mindfulness and memory. This analysis of mindfulness is then...