OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
September 7, 2023
Alberto Dubbini
This article aims to analyze how Western researchers can be influenced by their epistemic and ethical foundations, which are also expressed through a culturally shared idea of therapy, and how this influence can significantly hinder the understanding of a different cultural reality and its resources in terms of knowledge and practices. While examining a collection of research cases in the field...
Revista Contemporânea
September 5, 2023
Catarina Rodrigues Damasceno Murucci, Rita de Cássia Ramos Queiroz de Freitas, Grazielly Ribeiro Viana et al.
Ayahuasca is a tea used in original indigenous rituals with the aim of expanding the mind and consciousness. Some studies have pointed to Ayahuasca as a potent antidepressant with reduced side effects when compared to other conventional synthetic allopathic treatments. Over the years, tea has come to be known by both the popular community and the scientific community. The species used are...
Zygon®
September 4, 2023
John D. Teasdale
This article suggests that themes in Williams’ (2023) analysis of attention and contemplation resonate powerfully with current thinking in cognitive science. By changing how we pay attention, we can change the shape, or underlying configuration, of the heart‐mind. This is the core process in mindfulness and contemplation. The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) analysis suggests this...
Journal of Philosophical Investigations
September 2, 2023
Tohid Hadinejad, Mahdi Behniafar
In recent decades, Functionalism has become a standard approach towards philosophy of mind and cognitive science, Functionalism is inspired by computer science and against prior theories about mind. Functionalism takes mind as a processor and body as a provider of raw data for this processor. Mind with the help of mental algorithms translates perceptional data to symbolic representations as...
Brain
September 1, 2023
Nicholas B Dadario, Michael E. Sughrue
Recent advancements in computational approaches and neuroimaging techniques have refined our understanding of the precuneus. While previously believed to be largely a visual processing region, the importance of the precuneus in complex cognitive functions has been previously less familiar due to a lack of focal lesions in this deeply seated region, but also a poor understanding of its true...
Liverpool University Press eBooks
September 1, 2023
Charles F. Altieri
This chapter considers how reading Stevens’s poetry can offer sophisticated accounts of consciousness that make up for shortfalls in contemporary philosophy of mind. The chapter begins by sketching out trends in this area of theory, especially around the influential work of David Chalmers, and the themes of experience, participation, and consciousness of qualitative relations. The chapter then...
Religious Studies Review
September 1, 2023
Jessica A. Johnson
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. “In the MRI I experienced the invisible tendrils of discourse…a particularly powerful construction of the social. For in the MRI I became aware of my paranoia, mindful of how theories of information, feedback, and self-organization…frame the social as comprised of discrete individuals in a giant communication machine” (20)....
September 1, 2023
Robert H. Klein
Advisors of student organizations face many challenges, including holding students accountable while respecting their autonomy, dealing with challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and navigating their lack of training. Coupled with other professional obligations, it is common for advisors to feel stressed and under-prepared in their advising role. Given the increased interest in...
Spiritus
September 1, 2023
Mark S. Burrows
2 citations
"What Deepens the Deep for Us":Poetry, Contemplation, and the Art of Reading Mark S. Burrows (bio) The sole archives of the divine are poems, and an address to the god, more than any other kind, requires a conversion in language or an entirely different attitude within it. —Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe This essay undertakes the task of unfolding Lacoue-Labarthe's bold claim,1 exploring poetry as a...
Buḥūṯ fi Al-H̲idmaẗ Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ Al-Tanmawiyyaẗ
September 1, 2023
سعاد على محمد محمود
يهدف هذا البحث فى التعرف على العلاج المعرفى القائم على اليقظة وكيف يمكن أن يساعد في الوقاية من الاكتئاب المتكرر والمزمن وعلاجه ، حيث يعد الأكتئاب واحدا من أهم الاضطرابات النفسية إنتشارا ، وأكثر إعاقة وتأثيرا في الصحة، والسلوك، والاداء لدى الفئات العمرية المختلفة ، وغالبا ما يكون متكررا مما يؤدى إلى حاله مزمنه فقد تم تطويره (MBCT) من قبل Segal, Williams, and Teasdale (2002) كعلاج للوقايه من...