ReligionsJune 25, 2026Melanie Neumann, Lea Benz, Wiebke Uhlenbrock et al.
This study investigates the role of spirituality/religiosity (S/R) in meaning-making processes following stressful life events (SLEs) within the framework of Crystal Park’s Meaning Making Model (MMM). A qualitative phenomenological design was applied, using semi-structured interviews with N = 27 German participants who had experienced psychological and/or physical SLEs. As the majority of the...
Background Although drives cannot be demonstrated to be quantum phenomena, the formulation proceeds by defining drives in terms of their neural correlates and by hypothesizing that the indeterminacy associated with consciousness arises from the indeterminacy of drives. We also explore interventions using either–or questions designed to foster emotional awareness related to changes in drive....
This documentary research examines the psychology of life conduct among private sector executives through the lens of Buddhist philosophy. The study explores how Buddhist psychological principles—particularly the concepts of the Middle Way (Majjhimā Paṭipadā), mindfulness (Sati), wisdom (Paññā), and the Four Brahmaviharas—can systematically guide executive behavior, decision-making, and...
Immersive virtual environments are increasingly investigated as tools capable of modulating conscious experience, yet the specific contribution of graded immersion to altered states of consciousness (ASC), time perception, and cognition remains unclear. The present study examined how different levels of immersion during videogame play influence subjective experience and post-experience...
Importance: Cannabis use (CU) in adolescence is linked to increased risk of developing psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) that can lead to lifelong impairment. A candidate mechanism may be disruptions in reward processing supported by dopamine but this association has not yet been tested in adolescents with CU and PLEs. The objective of the study was to assess the interrelation between CU, PLEs,...
Iconicity denotes an informative relation between the form of an utterance and the meaning of that utterance. With good design, an utterance directly invites a suitable perceiver with a certain initiation to grasp a meaning in the right direction. Despite the touted importance of iconicity in languaging, it proves difficult to define more formally. When the term is defined, researchers often...
Inner-speech research documents striking individual diversity through descriptive phenomenology, self-report questionnaires, and extreme phenotypes, yet prior studies typically sample a few hundred respondents, and no design has mapped how the major modes co-occur or trade off at population scale. We addressed this gap with a video-based online survey (clean N = 5,289): respondents rated seven...
A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity. Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately linked in medieval thought. Early thinkers integrated mathematical and linguistic frameworks in their attempts to understand both divine and human creation with...
The article develops the concept of the epistemic centaur – an emergent alliance between human consciousness and Communicative Artificial Intelligence (ComAI). ComAI denotes a new generation of language models functioning according to the logic of communication: they sustain the context of dialogue, read the pragmatics of discourse, respond to the interlocutor’s intention, and initiate new...
In Nigeria, where yoga is largely unknown and underused, recent socio-economic challenges- including inflation, burnout, and growing mental health challenges – make the need for a change in educational leadership model apparent. This paper projects a yoga-informed approach to educational leadership as a full, invigorative model for planning sustainable learning environments. Rooted in the...