Ecological degradation is accelerating worldwide, yet the losses of species, ecosystems, and landscapes often remain socially and culturally unmourned. This article explores how contemplative ecology may offer a pathway for engaging with ecological grief. Drawing on the case study of Lab Landschapspijn Veluwe in the Netherlands, it examines how contemplative practices—such as contemplative...
This paper extends an earlier analysis of the functions attributable to consciousness, applying it to a modular/constitutive model that limits the role conscious sensations are allowed to play in integrative processes operating at scale. The focus is on conscious vision because of the challenge it poses for any theory of consciousness, of how to account for a 2-dimensional perceptual display....
Abstract Background Serotonin has been implicated in cognitive flexibility and pathological perseverative thinking (PT), including rumination, worry, and obsessions. However, evidence remains fragmented across pharmacological manipulations, clinical populations, and outcome measures. This multilevel meta-analysis examined whether serotonergic interventions influence PT and cognitive...
This paper examines first-person experiences of demons, devils, and Satan contained in the Alister Hardy RERC database of religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs). Word frequency analysis, content analysis, and phenomenological analysis are used to characterize the features of demonic experiences and how they relate to psychopathology and religious/cultural affiliations. Results show that...
The neural basis of self-consciousness has been intensively investigated for decades, with numerous studies characterizing distributed brain areas engaged in self-related processing. Despite systematic descriptions of core brain regions and functional architectures in previous reviews, a unified theoretical framework explaining the mechanisms of self-consciousness has yet to be established....
The paper is the third article in the Pali-Psycho series. It compares the Pali Canon with the Desert Fathers, Rhineland Mysticism, Carmelite Mysticism, and Ignatian Spirituality. The analysis uses the convergence-type schema developed in the preceding integrative article and distinguishes empirical, structural-phenomenological, conceptual, and no-parallel relations. The central result is...
This article examines the phenomenon of Zamanism as one of the key factors in the formation of the ethnophilosophy of the Kyrgyz people. It also analyzes the historical and cultural preconditions for the emergence of the Zamanist worldview, revealing its essential characteristics and influence on public consciousness. Particular attention in the research is paid to the interpretation of...
The concept of wali majdzub constitutes one of the most controversial themes in the Islamic mystical tradition due to its association with spiritual experiences considered to transcend rational consciousness and, at times, appear inconsistent with the outward norms of Islamic law (shari‘a). Some Sufi scholars regard the wali majdzub as a chosen servant of God who receives direct spiritual...
This study investigates the practice of prophetic traditions concerning dhikr within the Rateb Seuribe tradition in Aceh as an expression of living hadith, emphasizing how hadith are interpreted, embodied, and transmitted through lived religious practices rather than remaining merely textual doctrines. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, data were gathered through in-depth interviews...
Understanding how conscious cognition remains stable under uncertainty, conflict, and perturbation requires a framework that links neural dynamics to the geometry of evolving representational states. Here we develop Recursive Informational Curvature (RIC), a neurogeometric framework in which conscious access is modeled as a stability regime of trajectories on a stratified informational...