Tasawuf berfungsi sebagai tuntunan dan pedoman bagi perjalanan hidup manusia guna meraih kebahagiaan di dunia sekaligus keselamatan di akhirat. Hermeneutika berasal dari bahasa Yunani hermeneuein yang berarti menafsirkan, menjelaskan, atau menerjemahkan. Istilah ini diturunkan dari kata kerja hermeneuein serta kata benda hermeneia. Penelitian ini menerapkan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode...
This chapter explores the intersection of contemplative practices and international relations theory, offering a reimagining of the classical security dilemma through the lens of nonself and interdependence—core insights from ancient Buddhist thought. Building on foundational realist thinkers such as Thucydides, Kenneth Waltz, and John Mearsheimer, the chapter critically examines the evolution...
This paper develops the thesis that the decisive discontinuity in nature was not first the emergence of life and then, separately, the emergence of consciousness, but rather the invention of the boundary: the appearance of a membrane that separated an interior from an exterior. A bounded system is no longer a mere portion of matter among other portions of matter. It becomes a unit whose...
This exploratory study examined the impact of the newly developed Mindful Breathing Program (MBP), a grassroots mindfulness-based intervention, on the social-emotional well-being of students and teachers in a K–12 public school district in the United States. Pre- and post-intervention measures assessed students’ levels of mindfulness, affect, social-emotional functioning, and prosocial...
The therapeutic potential of psychedelics is currently being explored in a range of neuropsychiatric conditions. Nevertheless, their designation as Schedule 1 substances causes substantial regulatory and economic barriers to research. Rigorous human mechanistic studies are required to address the critical knowledge gaps surrounding the mechanisms underlying the putative treatment effects of...
Religious Savior-Centered Psychotherapy (RSCP) is a spiritually grounded, future-oriented therapeutic approach developed within the framework of Shiʿah eschatology, with a particular focus on near-future anticipatory belief systems. This article presents a comparative and descriptive theoretical analysis of RSCP, examining its conceptual convergence with major psychological models, including...
This study examines the concept of truth within philosophical and mystical traditions, aiming to explore its diverse modes of orientation. It argues that the relationship with truth is shaped through distinct epistemic and experiential modalities, emerging in human experience via the orientations of self-transcendence and self-return. These concepts serve as fundamental analytical categories...
This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first section analyses and explains Lāhījī’s teachings concerning the necessary prerequisites for the mystical path of the ṭarīqat . The Way of the Sufi friends and darvīshes is a way of life that involves the daily practice of a host of ascetical and contemplative practices. When practised sincerely under the spiritual guidance of a living Sufi...
We examine the claim that a minimal-conceptual, “bare” awareness underlies ordinary experience, and whether this pre-conceptual awareness (PCA, or minimal-dual awareness) should be understood primarily as an earlier, biologically rooted developmental baseline, or as a disclosure of a deeper ontological reality. The Retrieval hypothesis treats PCA as a cognitive–neural default mode that can be...
CNS DrugsJune 15, 2026Edward P. Hackett, Aditi Chaudhri -, Linda Hasman et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Dextromethorphan (DXM), widely used as an over-the-counter antitussive in the United States, exhibits psychoactive effects at supratherapeutic levels that overlap with those of classic and dissociative psychedelics. Reported psychoactive effects have generated interest in DXM as a potential therapeutic agent for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders. Despite this...