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March 4, 2021 Mark A. McIntosh
Abstract By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God’s mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian thinkers and mystical teachers with a powerful theological capacity: to illuminate the...
March 2, 2021 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
In this chapter, the highlights of the history of the ritual use of psychedelic substances are reviewed and the most common ones are briefly sketched as a preparation for subsequent discussion of the neurochemical correlates of mystical states. Specifically, the use of psychedelics among the ancient Hindus, mentioned extensively in the Vedas; among the members of the Native American Church and...
Annals of Yoga and Physical Therapy March 2, 2021 PC Meenakshi, GK Divayalakshmi, VC Shivaji
Background: Significant number of IT professionals suffer from various health problems, including poor mental health and sleep quality, which affects their work efficacy and quality of life. Mind Sound Resonance Technique (MSRT) is a chanting based relaxation technique showed to be effective in improving the physical and mental health of individuals. Aim: Present study is intended to evaluate...
JAMA Network Open March 1, 2021 Nanja Holland Hansen, Lise Juul, Karen Johanne Pallesen et al.
Importance: Caregivers of people with mental illness are at increased risk of developing depression, anxiety, and stress. Objective: To investigate the effect of a compassion cultivation training (CCT) program on decreasing caregiver psychological distress. Design, setting, and participants: This waitlist-controlled randomized clinical trial was conducted in 2 different community settings in...
Physics World March 1, 2021 Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione 2 citations
Do quantum effects play a role in consciousness? Or are the two areas being linked simply because they are both difficult to understand? Betony Adams and Francesco Petruccione explore this developing, and contentious, field of quantum biophysics
Annals of surgery March 1, 2021 Carter C Lebares, Troy N Coaston, Kevin L. Delucchi et al.
Objective: To determine the effects of ESRT (an iteratively adapted and tailored MBI) on perceived stress, executive cognitive function, psychosocial well-being (ie, burnout, mindfulness), and pro-inflammatory gene expression in surgical (ESRT-1) and mixed specialty (ESRT-2) PGY-1 volunteers. Summary of background and data: Tailored MBIs have proven beneficial in multiple high-stress and...
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science March 1, 2021 Peter Langland-Hassan
Inner speech travels under many aliases: the inner voice, verbal thought, thinking in words, internal verbalization, "talking in your head," the "little voice in the head," and so on. It is both a familiar element of first-person experience and a psychological phenomenon whose complex cognitive components and distributed neural bases are increasingly well understood. There is evidence that...
Animal cognition March 1, 2021 Michele Merritt 13 citations
I argue that an enactivist framework has more explanatory power than traditional philosophical theories of cognition when it comes to understanding the mechanisms underlying human-animal relationships. In both intraspecies and interspecies exchanges, what we often find are novel forms of cognition emerging from such transactions, but these "co-cognitive" processes cannot be understood apart...
Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World March 1, 2021 Saleem Al-Bahloly 1 citation
This article details how existential phenomenology, mystical theology and abstraction came together in the practice of Shakir Hassan Al Saʿid in the 1960s in order to produce a grammar of experience that might establish some human relationship to a universe rendered meaningless by scientific developments.
Psychiatric News March 1, 2021 Nick Zagorski
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article APA & MeetingsFull AccessSession on Psychedelics Sure to Be EnlighteningNick ZagorskiNick ZagorskiSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:2 Mar 2021https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2021.3.14AbstractLeaders in psychedelic research will discuss the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds in psychiatry and important...