Journal of Education, Health and Sport
August 15, 2023
Justyna Woźniak, Rafał Bogacz, Magdalena Gaik et al.
Introduction: The word “psychedelic” derives from the Greek language and can be loosely translated as “mind manifesting” which is to convey that these substances allow the mind to unleash its hidden potential. Psilocybin is considered to be a “classic psychedelic” and is most commonly found in the form of so-called “magic mushrooms”. Due to its unique properties psilocybin has been used during...
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
August 14, 2023
Petter Grahl Johnstad
This article presents an interview study of self-dissolution experiences induced by entheogenic or psychedelic drugs, with the aim of broadening our understanding of the nature and characteristics of such experiences. Respondents (N=37) were recruited at various online fora for individual interviews via private messaging. They reported a wide variety of experiences that involved some form of...
Frontiers in Nutrition
August 11, 2023
Lieneke Katharina Janssen, Iris Duif, Anne E. M. Speckens et al.
9 citations
Introduction: Accumulating evidence suggests that increased neural responses during the anticipation of high-calorie food play an important role in the tendency to overeat. A promising method for counteracting enhanced food anticipation in overeating might be mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). However, the neural mechanisms by which MBIs can affect food reward anticipation are unclear. In...
August 11, 2023
Nathan K. Mathews, Umer Bin Faiz, Nicholaus P. Brosowsky
preprint
Mind wandering is a common experience in which your attention drifts away from the task at hand and toward task-unrelated thoughts. To measure mind wandering we typically use experience sampling and retrospective self-reports, which require participants to make metacognitive judgments about their immediately preceding attentional states. In the current study, we aimed to better understand how...
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
August 10, 2023
Robert B. Kargbo
Depression is a widespread issue in the United States and the leading cause of disability globally, impacting people of all ages. Although selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly used for treatment, they have limited effectiveness and may take weeks to show results. There is a pressing need for fast and effective solutions for various types of depression, including chronic,...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
August 8, 2023
John Beebe, Stefano Carpani
This written exchange is between a senior and a younger Jungian analyst on issues relevant to the development of analytical psychology throughout the world today. The younger analyst, Stefano Carpani, considers himself a neo-Jungian. He explains to John Beebe, known for post-Jungian contributions to the study of typology, integrity, and gender, how important it is to include sociological...
August 7, 2023
Pedro Pricladnitzky
In this text, I intend to present one of Cavendish’s arguments for the thesis that nature, or all individuals that make up nature, have mental properties. Cavendish offered many arguments to show that matter has the capacity to think, but her central argument for the position is drawn from an observation that, for her, is evident and unquestionable: bodies, or the parts of matter that make up...
Age, Culture, Humanities
August 7, 2023
Emma-Louise Silva
This essay demonstrates the fruitfulness of applying a lens based on 4E-inspired cognitive narratology to David Almond’s My Name is Mina (2010) in order to illuminate how the so-called cognitive-affective imbalance between children and adults needs reassessing, especially when it comes to memory. Merging recent developments in 4E – or embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive – approaches to...
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
August 7, 2023
Rod Swenson
38 citations
The modern scientific world view was built on the incommensurability between cognition (mind) and physics (matter) and later life and physics (the autonomy of biology). Fuelled by Boltzmann's view of the second law of thermodynamics as a 'law of disorder', the idea of 'two opposing rivers', the river of physics 'flowing down' to disorder and the river of life and mind 'flowing up' to higher...
August 4, 2023
Francesco Saldarini, Kaho Yamasaki, Hiromitsu Miyata
preprint
Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can reduce chronic stress, but their therapeutic mechanisms remain unclear. MBIs may train attention monitoring and acceptance skills that have been impaired by chronic stress exposure, and the interaction between these skills might lead to chronic stress reduction. In the present study, we aimed at directly replicating one of the few existing...