Buddhist-Christian Studies
November 18, 2021
Manuel López-Casquete
abstract:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola are one of the most important paths of spiritual deepening in the Christian tradition. Despite the fact that Saint Ignatius offers a detailed methodological description to live the experience, it is often approached by people who perform daily meditation practices close to Zen. In this paper, we analyze the possibilities of living the...
communication +1
November 17, 2021
Aleena Chia
In 2014, engineers and entrepreneurs began meeting up in San Francisco to explore how virtual reality and lucid dreaming headsets using electroencephalography and other kinds of biofeedback could stimulate altered mental states. They called these practices “consciousness hacking” and referred to research, financing, and design efforts around these wearables as a movement. Unlike Quantified Self...
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact.
November 15, 2021
K. Mah, Lo-Ke Lian, L. Hespanhol
With the emergence in human–computer interaction (HCI) of researching contemplative practices, authentic descriptions of first-person lived experience informing design are few. Most researchers in HCI are not trained in observing the mind. We draw on learnings from neurophenomenology, inspired by well-established Buddhist techniques for mind-training. We present a self-observation of Tonglen, a...
November 12, 2021
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
preprint
This article explores the enduring mysteries of consciousness and the afterlife, two enigmatic topics that have fascinated humanity for ages. Despite extensive scientific efforts, the existence of an afterlife remains unproven, and understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge. The research introduces innovative hypotheses through simple thought experiments with empirical evidence...
Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
November 12, 2021
L. R. Chapman
This tutorial introduces communication sciences and disorders (CSD) educators to contemplative pedagogy (sometimes called mindfulness in the classroom). While contemplative pedagogy has considerable overlap with evidence-based teaching and learning, and aligns with values in the CSD discipline, there are few published reports investigating the role of contemplative pedagogy in CSD education....
Techniques in Neurosurgery & Neurology
November 12, 2021
Daniel A. Seda
2 citations
Sensitivity to paranormal phenomena can be a source of emotional, mental and psychospiritual stress for individuals demonstrating verified mediumistic abilities, yet integrating these anomalous experiences in a healthy, affirming manner can reduce distress and potentially deflect ego dystonic diagnoses of pathology. Because mediums can relay information which appear to be otherworldly from...
Philosophical Topics
November 11, 2021
P. Carruthers
ABSTRACT:The best empirically grounded theory of first-personal phenomenal consciousness is global workspace theory. This, combined with the success of the phenomenal-concept strategy, means that consciousness can be fully reductively explained in terms of globally broadcast representational content. So there are no qualia (and there is no mental paint). As a result, the question of which other...
Revista Innova Educación
November 9, 2021
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortíz, Anna Bonshek
5 citations
Schools in Perú have not typically been the sites of research on meditation or its possible role in student health or primary and secondary education outcomes. This retrospective observational study seeks to begin redressing this evidentiary shortfall by confirming results from an earlier, smaller-scale study of 91 students in Huay-Huay, with a specific focus on the practice of Transcendental...
Einstein vs. Bergson
November 8, 2021
Pierre Montebello
The ultimate project of Bergsonism is to find a ‘living unity’ that welcomes life, consciousness, and the material universe. But it proves difficult for this philosophy, which starts from the experience of conscious life and takes the immediate data of consciousness as its guiding principle, to connect our subjective and private psycho-vital experience to the ‘objective’ and common reality of...
Jurnal Teologi Amreta
November 5, 2021
Victor Christianto
1 citation
Continuing our previous paper, we gave an outline of a new integral model of human consciousness scheme beyond Freudian mental model. We start from a recent book by one of us: Neutropsychic personality. Then we discuss possibility to reintroduce spirit into human consciousness. To emphasize what we have outlined in a preceding paper, we consider the following: that human consciousness model...