The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
October 15, 2022
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
Abstract Mystical experiences are among the most well-studied spiritual experience. This chapter defines mystical experience as inner experiences involving an intensely felt fading of the sense of self and/or feelings of increased connectedness, up to and including the sense of complete unity. These kinds of feelings go well beyond our normal day to day sense of self-awareness. In ordinary...
Neuroimage
October 15, 2022
Andrew Gaddis, Daniel E. Lidstone, Mary Beth Nebel et al.
38 citations
Classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin and LSD, and other serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) agonists evoke acute alterations in perception and cognition. Altered thalamocortical connectivity has been hypothesized to underlie these effects, which is supported by some functional MRI (fMRI) studies. These studies have treated the thalamus as a unitary structure, despite known differential 5-HT2AR...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 13, 2022
Ziyu Zhang, Yanqin Peng, Tingji Chen
15 citations
Previous studies have suggested that Om chanting, a type of meditation, can relieve individuals' negative emotions. However, the dynamic aspects of neural processes in the processing of the negative stimuli while Om chanting are still unclear. In this study, we recruited 33 healthy undergraduate students without meditation experience and recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) to unpleasant...
Religions
October 9, 2022
Nathan E. Fisher
13 citations
While the trait of absorption has received a considerable amount of scientific study, states of absorption have been comparatively understudied and even less scholarly or scientific attention has been paid to those that are cultivated within the contemplative traditions of Islam and Judaism. This paper explores canonical descriptions of states of contemplative absorption in Islamic and Jewish...
مجلة جامعة الفيوم للعلوم التربوية والنفسية
October 8, 2022
حنان محمد محمد عبدالرازق, صبری عبدالله شندی شندی, هناء محمد صبری صبری
مستخلص البحث إن الذات المتمثلة فى الإنسان هي الحقيقة التي يتحقق من خلالها وجوده كذات مؤثرة في العالم الخارجي، وأن التفكير هو الخاصية التي لازمت الذات، وهذا ما أكده الفيلسوف ديكارت من خلال شكه فى ذاته، واستدل على وجود الذات من خلال التفكير، أما الفيلسوف هوسرل فيؤكد أن الوعي قصدي حيث الاتجاه نحو الشىء المفكر فيه من خلال الذات لذا، يتضح أن ماكجين يرى الوعي الذاتي معرفة بالذات؛ حيث إنه مثله مثل...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
October 7, 2022
Laura Candiotto
Through a discussion of the socially extended mind, this paper advances the “not possible without principle” as an alternative to the social parity principle. By charging the social parity principle with reductionism about the social dimension of socially extended processes, the paper offers a new argumentative strategy for the socially extended mind that stresses its existential significance....
Revista Innova Educación
October 5, 2022
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortíz, Anna Bonshek
4 citations
Most of the literature that has emerged about the impacts of home isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests it causes mildly to acutely adverse psychosocial and physiological responses, particularly in children. Such responses relate to the separation children experience from their normal routine, including loneliness, anxiety, and depression, and adversities associated with school...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
October 5, 2022
J. Bruineberg, R. Fabry
Smartphone use plays an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Philosophical research that has used first wave or second wave theories of extended cognition in order to understand our engagement with digital technologies has focused on the contribution of these technologies to the completion of specific cognitive tasks (e.g., remembering, reasoning, problem-solving, navigation)....
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
October 5, 2022
Annie M. Mccartney, Hugh McGovern, Alexander de Foe
33 citations
Research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances is expanding. A limitation within this field is the unpredictability of individual responses to psychedelics. Better understanding of factors predicting psychedelic experience is essential to clinical progress and wider harm reduction frameworks. Ketamine, MDMA, LSD and psilocybin were selected for comparison due to their promising...
Time and Mind
October 2, 2022
M. R. Lami, Mónica Fernández
We are pleased to present a collection of stimulating research papers that delve into various realms of scientific inquiry, shedding new light on captivating subjects. In this issue, we embark on a journey that spans the enigmatic presence of a mushroom cult in the Southern Levant, ancient divination practices, rock art research, and the symbolic significance of prehistoric architecture. These...