Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
September 19, 2019
Georg Northoff
Neuroscience made major progress in unravelling the neural basis of mental features like self, consciousness, affect, etc. However, we nevertheless lack what recently has been described as "missing ingredient" or "common currency" in the relationship between neuronal and mental activity. Rather than putting forward yet another theory of the neural basis of mental features, I here suggest a...
September 16, 2019
Ingrid Falque
This book offers the first full-length study of the contemplative function of devotional portraits in Early Netherlandish paintings (1400-1550), demonstrating that many images of people kneeling in prayer functioned within the picture as a visualisation of their spiritual process. The study is anchored within a fertile art-historical tradition that focuses on the uses and functions of...
The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
September 11, 2019
Axel Cleeremans, Wen Wen
Starting from the radical idea that consciousness is something that the brain learns to do rather than a static property associated with some patterns of neural activity and not with others, I explore the links between theory of mind, self- awareness, and perceptual awareness. Considering first the link between self-awareness and perceptual awareness, I suggest, congruently with the...
Faith in African Lived Christianity
September 11, 2019
Lotta Gammelin
5 citations
Church services at the Gospel Miracle Church for All People (gmcl)1 follow a dramatic pattern that is always very similar: the culmination point comes after the sermon and offering with the healing session in which women lost in spirit trances become the focus of the congregation’s attention. Usually they scream, resist, and try to escape, and several people are required to hold them down and...
September 10, 2019
Nevill Drury, Gregory Tillett
Shamanism is the magic of ecstasy, of leaving the body and soaring to great heights of mystical illumination. Mircea Eliade, the famous scholar of comparative religion calls the shaman ‘the technician of the sacred’. In the strict anthropological sense, shamanism is best represented in Siberia and in South and Central America among the native Indian tribes. Perhaps the most impressive role of...
Sofia
September 5, 2019
Giorgio Airoldi
Discussions about the extended mind have ‘extended’ in various directions in the last decades. While applied to other aspects of human cognition and even consciousness, the extended-mind hypothesis has also been criticized, as it questions fundamental ideas such as the image of a dual world, divided between an external and an internal domain by the border of ‘skin and skull’, the idea of a...
Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy
September 3, 2019
Ying-hui Chou
3 citations
Research on yoga interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is plentiful, but none to date have studied the neural effects and benefits of a yogic practice on the default mode network (DMN) in PTSD.Common features of PTSD, such as mind-wandering and emotional dysregulation, are linked to altered neural functioning of the DMN due to initial trauma exposure.Symptom severity is also...
International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
September 1, 2019
R. Zegarra-Parodi, J. Draper-Rodi, J. Haxton et al.
Abstract The purpose of the current commentary was to document how Native American healing traditions may have influenced A.T. Still in the development of osteopathic principles and how current neuroscience models describing shamanic healing practices of Native American healers may have applicability for osteopathic manipulative practices. Recent materials from the Museum of Osteopathic...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2019
Abdulla Galadari
AbstractA comparison between Muḥammad and Siddhārtha's psychological states is made to identify how they had their mystical experiences and how their presuppositions and personalities shaped their interpretation of these experiences. Muḥammad's mystical experience appeared to be based on an altered state of consciousness. Siddhārtha's teachings include that one must not have blind faith and...
Medical Hypotheses
September 1, 2019
Enrico Facco, Laura Mendozzi, Angelo Bona et al.
16 citations
The topic of multiple personality, redefined as Dissociative Identity Disorders (DIDs) in the DSM-5, is an intriguing and still debated disorder with a long history and deep cultural and epistemological implications, extending up to the idea of possession. Hypnosis is an appealing and valuable model to manipulate subjective experience and get an insight on both the physiology and the...