Qeios
October 23, 2023
Jonathan Edwards
preprint
What is a perceiving ‘me’ or ‘soul’ and does it endure, perhaps for eternity, or is it merely one of a sequence of evanescent events? Conscious perception poses several puzzles in relation to subject identity and continuity that Leibniz paid close attention to. Re-applying Leibniz’s principles in a modern context suggests two conclusions. Firstly, his search for fundamental indivisible...
Material Religion
October 20, 2023
Sara Kuehn
1 citation
This study examines three of the most iconic sites associated with Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, in Ottoman Hungary.These are three mausoleums located in Buda, Pécs, and Turbék, near Zigetvár.The first two are the final resting places of the Sufi mystics known as Gül Baba and Idris Baba.The third is Sultan Süleyman's mausoleum next to a Sufi dervish lodge, the foundations of which were...
PsyArXiv Preprints
October 19, 2023
preprint
Most people can conjure images and sounds that they experience in their minds. There are, however, marked individual differences. Some people report that they cannot generate imagined sensory experiences at all (aphantasics) and others report that they have unusually intense imagined experiences (hyper-phantasics). These individual differences have been linked to activity in sensory brain...
Sophia
October 19, 2023
Steve Taylor
This paper argues for a ‘perennial phenomenology’ (or ‘soft’ perennialism) varying from the traditionalist notion of a ‘perennial philosophy.’ Perennial phenomenology offers a more nuanced form of perennialism that focuses on spiritual/mystical experiences rather than the teachings and beliefs of different religions. While teachings and beliefs vary greatly, the mystical experiences associated...
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
October 18, 2023
Júlia Gyimesi
2 citations
The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of his contemporaries. Recognized in many respects by...
Comunicação e Sociedade
October 17, 2023
Vincenzo Valentino Susca
1 citation
The rituals, ceremonies and effervescence of the sacred manifest themselves in digital culture not only through the proliferation of new religious cults. They do so through the online actualisation of traditional religious forms but also the spiritual elevation of objects (Houtman & Meyer, 2012), practices (Carolyn, 2014) or ephemeral, playful and dreamlike images (Susca, 2016). In most cases,...
PLoS Computational Biology
October 17, 2023
Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo S. Barbosa, Graham Findlay et al.
This paper presents Integrated Information Theory (IIT) 4.0. IIT aims to account for the properties of experience in physical (operational) terms. It identifies the essential properties of experience (axioms), infers the necessary and sufficient properties that its substrate must satisfy (postulates), and expresses them in mathematical terms. In principle, the postulates can be applied to any...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
October 16, 2023
Marc Applebaum
7 citations
Mindfulness practices adapted from Theravada Buddhism have become widespread among many in Western societies who seek stress reduction and greater present-centeredness. Less well-known is the mindfulness practice in Sufism–the mystical path of Islam–known as meditative remembrance ( dhikr). While mindfulness is often understood as a self-help technique, the aim of Buddhist and Sufi meditative...
Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
October 15, 2023
Brad Stoddard
Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion, by Don Lattin God on Psychedelics: Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-time Religion. By Don Lattin. Apocryphile. 2023. 188 pages. $18.00 softcover; ebook available. Brad Stoddard Brad Stoddard McDaniel College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova...
El Azufre Rojo
October 14, 2023
Luce López Baralt
Resumen: Este ensayo testimonial recoge las vivencias y/o estados místicos que la autora experimentó en el transcurso de sus años de estudio de la místicos cristianos, santa Teresa y san Juan, y sus paralelismos con el sufismo. Vivencias, que constrasta, asimismo, con las palabras de otros escritores y pensadores de diversos ámbitos. Abstract: This testimonial essay gathers the experiences...