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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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)....
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 MindOctober 2, 2022M. 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...
What are unconscious inferences in psychology? This article investigates their journey from the early philosophical psychology of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) to the experimental psychology of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). Peirce's reception of Wundt's early works situates him in an international web of 19th-century experimental psychologists and its reconstruction opens...
Background: Chanting Om was reported to increase the blood supply to brain structures involved in cognitive functions and improve cognition. Aim and Objectives: The present study was undertaken to observe the effectiveness of 12-week Om chanting on reaction time and spatial and verbal memory. Materials and Methods: Apparently, healthy volunteers (n=20; nine men and 11 women) who were...