KOME
2023
Ronald Gordon
3 citations
Maslow’s landmark conception of the generalised “peak experience” is revisited. Next the concept of “peak” communication experiences (PCEs), originally derived four decades ago from the generalised Maslow model, is reviewed. PCEs are defined as our times of highest happiness and fulfilment arising from our communication with others. While “peak” communication experiences have received scant...
Palgrave studies in workplace spirituality and fulfillment
2023
David H. Goodman, Anil K. Maheshwari
2 citations
Abstract The flow experience, first studied by Mihaly (Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Harper Perennial, 1991), represents a glimpse into peak experiences, and suggests an expanded state of consciousness often accompanied by superior creativity and accomplishment. The experience of transcendence through Transcendental Meditation® (TM®), brought to the world by...
Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Disorders
2023
BD Robertson, Werner Jk, TR Pearce et al.
2 citations
Objective: Nightmares are a common co-morbid condition among patients with mental health disorders and sleep disturbances. Patients with Nightmare Disorder (ND) or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares experience sleep fragmentation, reduced sleep quality, and insufficient sleep quantity. NightWare is an FDA-cleared digital medical device that monitors patients’ heart rate...
Revista brasileira de enfermagem
2023
Jesús Guadalupe Martínez Ramírez, Erika Adriana Torres Hernández, Raúl Fernando Guerrero-Castañeda
to report the experience of implementing a nursing strategy to promote self-transcendence in older adults attended at a Primary Health Care center. an experience report on the implementation of a strategy addressing the Theory of Self-Transcendence by nursing to older adults in a primary health unit, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, from October to November 2022. fourteen older adults and three...
Frontiers in Psychology
2023
Jocelyn Shealy McGee, Christine Katzenmeyer, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie et al.
Labyrinth walking is an integrative contemplative practice that aims to engage the body, heart, mind, and spirit. In this article, qualitative findings from the first year of a mixed methods study on collective labyrinth walking with a shared intention are described. This form of labyrinth walking is distinct in that it is a social contemplative practice. It expands upon most of the labyrinth...
Mindfulness
2023
Sin U Lam, Kevin M. Riordan, Otto Simonsson et al.
Despite the well-documented psychological benefits of meditation practice, limited research has examined factors associated with meditation practice persistence. Like other health behaviors (e.g., exercise), non-persistence may undermine the effectiveness of meditation. We examined rates and correlates of meditation persistence using a population-based sample (n = 953) in the United States....
Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry
2023
Torben Larsen
This case report on Transcendental Meditation covers 56 years, from its introduction in 1967 until today. It is divided into 3 main parts. Already in 1968, at the age of 22, this peak event, under the form of a meditative illumination completely took me by surprise and changed my life. A few days later, when I felt like a “person from Mars in disguise” started Phase 1: Rehabilitation, a state...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2023
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy
The boundary problem is related to the binding problem, part of a family of puzzles and phenomenal experiences that theories of consciousness (ToC) must either explain or eliminate. By comparison with the phenomenal binding problem, the boundary problem has received very little scholarly attention since first framed in detail by Rosengard in 1998, despite discussion by Chalmers in his widely...
Integral Psychedelic Therapy the Non Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing
2023
In this chapter, Eric Sienknecht offers the reader an in-depth exploration of music in psychedelic therapy. His chapter points to music as an essential component of psychedelic therapy that can potentiate transformative therapeutic outcomes. Sienknecht offers practical guidance for helping clients “listen into music,” which can provide significant support for accessing NOSC and peak...
Atheistic Platonism
2023
Eric Charles Steinhart
Eleven detailed cases of atheistic mystical experience are examined. Five themes emerge from these cases: structural insight, wholeness, extremity, ego dissolution, and valuable connection. I will use atheistic Platonism to interpret these five themes. Structural insight and wholeness correspond to that singular relational power that binds all things together into the wholeness of nature. This...