This study aims to explain hudur al-qalb as a tasawuf psychotherapy method for mental health. As a literature research, this article will examine hudur al-qalb in the thinking of Sufi experts, such as al-Ghazali and Ibn al-’Arabi, and to what extent it can provide benefits in mental health, namely peace of mind and soul. This research has implications for efforts to cure mental stress by...
I begin with my replies to Michelle Maiese, especially with respect to the hard problem of consciousness, my version of reductive-realism, my version of a type-identity theory, my version of an embodied cognitive theory, and questions regarding exactly what an enactive or embodied theory entails. I also address Dina Mendonça’s concerns about cultural diversity in the study of emotion, in the...
Psychedelic drugs, once classified as prohibited drugs, have recently regained attention as medicinal drugs. It is anticipated that psychedelic drugs will show effectiveness for various psychiatric symptoms due to their mind-altering actions. Currently, clinical trials are being conducted to evaluate the therapeutic effects on end-of-life care, depressive disorder, anxiety disorder,...
In their target article, Kammerer and Frankish (K&F) wonder what forms introspection could take in non-human animals, enhanced humans, artificial intelligences, and aliens. In this short note, I focus on disordered or neurodiverse minds. More specifically, I assess a claim that has often been made more or less implicitly to the effect that, in virtue of their conditions, people with...
Kammerer and Frankish (this issue) challenge us to expand our conception of introspection beyond neurotypical human cases. This article describes a possible 'ancillary mind' modelled on a system envisioned in Leckie's (2013) science fiction novel Ancillary Justice. The ancillary mind constitutes a borderline case between a communicating group of individuals and a single, spatially distributed...
в 1957 году Х. Эверетт представил гипотезу «многомировой динамики» или «мультивселенной». Последние 20 лет появились работы в области «many minds interpretation». При этом делаются попытки соединить эти два научных направления в нечто целое. Фактически речь идет об объединении нейронаук (наук о мозге) с квантовой теорией. Это выполнено на базе эффекта Еськова–Зинченко, т. е. на основе...
The relevance of this article is determined by the penetration of information technologies into all spheres of human life, the impact on his consciousness and personality. The purpose of the article is to show the differences in the assessment of the influence of virtual reality on human consciousness in modern psychology and from the point of view of Christian anthropology. The hypothesis is...
Spirituality in the Narrative: A Detour Via GenealogyY oga, meditation, personal development movements, New Age esoteric practices, shamanic rituals, East or South Asian-based beliefs: Today, more and more activities are defined as "spiritual."While most of these activities are inspired by specific cosmologies that have their own representations of the world, derived practices are usually...
Over the last decades, there has been growing interest in the West for mindfulness meditation in science, care, business, and education. Teachers adopting mindfulness meditation primarily acknowledge its potential benefits, yet critical scholarship highlighted that while mindfulness may support resilience, it may also enhance resignation or contribute to an increased medicalization of life. In...
How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind?To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology, by contrast with conceptions of phenomenology of the XXth century, beneficially dispenses with several methodological and conceptual assumptions that were assumed to be compulsory, as phenomenological reduction, a...