Maslow’a göre insanın kendisini gerçekleştirebilmesi için “ihtiyaçlar piramidi”nin doyuma ulaşması gerekir. Hümanist psikolojinin bu piramidinde fizyolojik ihtiyaçlar, güvenlik ihtiyacı, sevgi ve ait olma ile saygı ihtiyaçları karşılandığında kişi kendini gerçekleştirebilmektedir. Maslow, kendini gerçekleştirme güdüsü tatmin olduğunda “aşkın bilinç deneyimleri” yaşanabileceğini belirtmiştir....
ABSTRACT: O. Rodionov recently discussed the work of three commentators on a much disputed passage in the Ladder of John Climacus, namely Michael Psellos, the Patriarch Photios, and an anonymous scholiast. The purpose of this article is to present arguments in favour of identifying that scholiast as Elias of Crete, the author of an extensive commentary on the Ladder. KEYWORDS: Rodionov,...
The intensity of the psychedelic experience has been shown to be associated with its clinical efficacy. This study aims to investigate the factors that may influence the level of altered consciousness during naturalistic psychedelic use, which serves as a proxy for the intensity of the psychedelic experience. A retrospective online survey was conducted on individuals who reported a psychedelic...
Epilepsy & BehaviorJanuary 22, 2026Fredrik K Andersson, Bisrat Ezra, Kenney Roy Roodakker et al.
Ecstatic seizures (EcS) have captured scientific interest due to their potential origin in anterior insular networks, emphasizing the insula's role in self-processing. Their frequency in epilepsy or insular pathology has not been systematically studied. Present study aimed to examine the frequency and clinical characteristics of EcS in epilepsy patients, and the potential occurrence of ecstatic...
The field of consciousness research has reached a somewhat contentious atmosphere. From “adversarial collaborations”, where consciousness theories compete, to open letters where researchers label some theories as pseudoscience, the subject is becoming harder to investigate and results difficult to interpret as there is still a significant aura of mysticism rooted in dualism and its modern...
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of philosophical and Sufi models of self-reflection to develop an integrative metamodel framework of subject formation. In the Western philosophical tradition, self-reflection is primarily understood as a rational-analytical procedure oriented toward clarifying the conditions of knowledge, conceptualizing experience, and securing the certainty of...
Meditation practice has been associated with benefits but also adverse experiences from anxiety to psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and even psychosis. The overarching aim was to identify how different types of meditation techniques (varying in bodily focus) differentially relate to psychotic-like experiences and cognitive abilities, including interoceptive awareness, affective awareness and...
There is a strange mercy in the way the mind forgets a mercy that medicine has rarely understood. In our age of biomedical triumphalism, where pharmaceutical companies spend billions on Alzheimer's therapies promising to rewind the unrewindable, we speak of memory loss exclusively as catastrophe, as the progressive erasure of selfhood requiring aggressive intervention. This article proposes a...
The struggle with compulsive behavior has been addressed by human communities throughout history, though the frameworks for understanding and treating such struggles have varied dramatically across cultures and eras. In contemporary Western society, twelve-step programs-particularly Sex Addicts Anonymous (SA) and Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)-have emerged as primary resources for those...
Personally meaningful music can evoke vivid emotions and autobiographical memories, reconnecting listeners with their personal past. Whether the autobiographical salience of music, as distinct from familiarity, modulates its effects on an individual’s state of consciousness has not been systematically tested. We compared autobiographically salient (AS) music with a standardized therapeutic...