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March 18, 2021 Latha Poonamallee
This chapter introduces mindfulness practice and attends to the resistance and anxiety people sometimes face as novice practitioners by normalizing it and by sharing stories from the journals of people who have trained with the author. The chapter concludes with a brief breath meditation practice script.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy March 17, 2021 A. Conty
abstract:Panpsychism, the view that the material elements of the universe have mental properties, has until quite recently remained in the periphery of the philosophical mainstream due to its blatant contradiction of normative Cartesian dualities, which divided the world into mental properties (that inhere in human beings alone) and material properties, that are devoid of value and sentience....
The Qualitative Report March 15, 2021 Krzysztof T. Konecki
This paper is a description of collaborative research that was done together with students during the class “Contemplative Sociology. Experiencing Self, No-Self and the Lifeworld.” The goal of the research was to introduce the students to the contemplative methods that could be used to research lived experiences and the vision of the lifeworld through contemplation of the mind, bodily...
Religions March 13, 2021 Brentyn J. Ramm 6 citations
In this paper, I investigate the phenomenology of awakening in Chinese Zen Buddhism. In this tradition, to awaken is to ‘see your true nature’. In particular, the two aspects of awakening are: (1) seeing that the nature of one’s self or mind is empty or void and (2) an erasing of the usual (though merely apparent) boundary between subject and object. In the early Zen tradition, there are many...
Trends in Psychology March 11, 2021 Veeral Desai, Arnav Gupta, Lucas Andersen et al.
To assess the potential effectiveness of playing a simple, casual video game (Flower) in reducing stress relative to participating in a mindfulness-meditation session (body scan) among undergraduate students. Eighty undergraduate student participants (mean age = 19.46 years, SD = 1.43; gender: 48 females, 29 males, 3 preferred not to answer) were assigned to one of two groups in alternating...
bioRxiv Preprint Server March 11, 2021 Enzo Tagliazucchi, Federico Zamberlán, Federico Cavanna et al. 3 citations preprint
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a classic psychedelic capable of inducing short-lasting but profound changes in consciousness. As with other psychedelics, the experience induced by DMT strongly depends upon contextual factors, yet the neurobiological determinants of this variability remain unknown. We combined wireless electroencephalography and source imaging to map changes in neural...
Frontiers in Psychology March 5, 2021 Erica Kilius, Noor H. Abbas, Leela McKinnon et al. 56 citations
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated stressors have impacted the daily lives and sleeping patterns of many individuals, including university students. Dreams may provide insight into how the mind processes changing realities; dreams not only allow consolidation of new information, but may give the opportunity to creatively “play out” low-risk, hypothetical threat simulations. While there...
bioRxiv Preprint Server March 5, 2021 Alessandro Monti, Giuseppina Porciello, Maria Serena Panasiti et al. 6 citations preprint
Bodily self-consciousness, the state of mind that allows humans to be aware of their own body, forms the backdrop for almost every human experience, yet its underpinnings remain elusive. Here we combine an ingestible, minimally invasive capsule with surface electrogastrography to probe if gut physiology correlates with bodily self-consciousness during a virtual bodily illusion. We discover that...
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...