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July 19, 2023 Cogen Bohanec
This chapter explores how certain contemplative practices of Jain sādhana as presented in Hemacandra’s Yogaśāstra (YŚ) relate to similar instances in the Hindu text of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra (YS) in terms of the teleological movement from preliminary “active engagement” ( pravṛtti ) to superlative “withdrawn disengagement” ( nivṛtti ).
July 19, 2023 Christopher P. Miller
This chapter focuses on the time the author spent at the International Summer School for Jain Studies (ISSJS) in Delhi in the summer of 2012. Using the ISSJS summer graduate studies program as a prism for experiential analysis, it surveys Jainism’s elemental meditations and concomitant views of the natural world as found in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra (ca. 4th c. BCE), Tattvārtha Sūtra (ca. 2nd c. CE),...
Frontiers in Psychiatry July 18, 2023 Andrea Andorfer, Sabina Kraler, Paul Kaufmann et al. 2 citations
Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (including self-compassion interventions) are effective in improving stress management at psychological and physical levels. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is a newly developed program particularly aimed at increasing self-compassion. The main objective of this study was to determine whether the psychophysiological stress response during a...
International Journal of Gynecological Cancer July 18, 2023 Dan Yaniv, L. Ramondetta, L. Cohen et al.
Women with gynecologic cancers face various physical and psychological challenges throughout their treatment journey. Late stages associated with poor prognosis, along with chronic side effects of treatment, often leave women with existential uncertainty stemming from unpredictable disease trajectory and continuous fear of death. Recently, a patient in her late 30s (JN) with endstage ovarian...
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy July 17, 2023 Dimitris Apostolopoulos 1 citation
La structure du comportement details consciousness-nature relations by navigating between realist and intellectualist alternatives. A phenomenological reading of form guides its attempt to formulate a view that does not reduce consciousness to matter or perceptual structure to a product of mind. I show that this strategy relies on hitherto overlooked idealist commitments. Forms are perceived...
Supporting Children and Youth Through Spiritual Education July 17, 2023 Noel Keating
Fowler's model of faith development downplayed the importance of personal spiritual experience; instead, he stressed the need for the development of intellectual and moral reasoning in children. In such a model, spiritual development is in danger of being conflated with religious instruction and is more likely to meet the needs of religious institutions than those of children. This author's...
Australian Journal of Chemistry July 16, 2023 Matthew Piggott, Peter J. Duggan 1 citation
The recent heightened public enthusiasm for the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics, especially for treatment-resistant mental health conditions, has resulted in a renewed interest in the underlying science that governs their properties and pharmacology.The science of psychedelics is an intriguing, multi-disciplinary field and encompasses many known psychedelic substances, including...
Jurnal Riset Jurnalistik dan Media Digital July 15, 2023 Muhammad Aldy Febiansyah, Firmansyah, Dadi Ahmadi 2 citations
Abstract. The film How To Change Your Mind is a film whose title explains that we have to change our thinking when watching this film. This film tells about how Michael Pollan and also the narrator in the film tell and explain how psychedelics change our minds. Psychedelic which means "Mind Manifestation" is an effect or condition when we try substances that have psychedelic effects or are now...
The Person and the Challenges The Journal of Theology Education Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II July 14, 2023 Tadeusz Pabjan
The issue of the relation between the mind and the brain is known as one of the most discussed problem of the philosophy of mind. The recent development of neuroscience contributed significantly to animate the discussion on this subject. This article is one voice in this discussion. It contains a critical analysis of some arguments in favor of the theory which claims that the mind is identical...
PsyArXiv July 14, 2023 Norah Wolk, Daniel J Morris, Yasmeen Nahas et al. preprint
People typically become aware that a dream was “just a dream” only after awakening. Alternatively, people can become aware that they are dreaming during the dream. These lucid dreams are thought to involve increased prefrontal cortex activity relative to non-lucid dreams, and they are associated with volitional control over dream content. Lucid dreams could be valuable for many purposes, such...