There has been increasing research on the application of yoga and meditation to the composition of performing arts as one of the comprehensive approaches to creativity, stage performance, and well-being of the performers. Exposing the works of art to intense physical exercises, emotional outbursts, and excessive psychological stress, tend to affect the performance, as well as their health in...
The article examines the authenticity of mystical experiences within the context of craniosacral therapy and its theological implications. It employs aphenomenological method to analyze the personal testimony of the author, who experienced atranscendental experience during treatment, with this been interpreted as an encounter with God. The study examines how craniosacral therapy can create the...
Aim: This study explored the experiences of patients who received an analgesic or sedative (sub-anaesthetic) dose of prehospital ketamine and examined common themes. Background: Ketamine is a powerful dissociative anaesthetic used by prehospital critical care teams. Among its many effects are dissociative episodes, hallucinations and periods of amnesia. It is unclear how these affect patients'...
For ages, scientists have viewed consciousness as some sort of magic trick that suddenly appears when brains achieve a certain level of complexity. What if, however, consciousness has existed all along, even at the smallest levels? Here, I am suggesting a different take: what if consciousness started down at the very subatomic level, and indeed, it was present at the earliest moment? Initially,...
Background: Memory is the storage of acquired knowledge for later recall. Learning and memory form the basis by which individuals adapt their behavior to their particular external circumstances. Without these mechanisms, it would be impossible for individuals to plan for successful interactions and to intentionally avoid predictably disagreeable circumstances. Yoga unites the individual self...
BACKGROUND: Dissociation, a disruption in the coherent integration of experience, is increasingly recognized as a clinically relevant yet underexplored phenomenon in epilepsy. While psychobehavioral symptoms such as anxiety and depression are routinely addressed in epilepsy care, dissociation remains understudied and formal assessment frameworks to better evaluate and integrate dissociative...
This article addresses the “Hard Problem” of consciousness not as an immutable ontological barrier of nature, but as an iatrogenic separation—a methodological artifact induced by the reductive third-person perspective (3P). By systematically and intentionally removing the subject from the world-description to achieve a veneer of objectivity, modern physicalism creates a restrictive “substance...
This paper develops a neurophilosophical account of rationality by arguing that what is commonly referred to as “reason” does not correspond to a unified or central faculty in the brain. Drawing on contemporary neuroscience, including predictive processing frameworks, distributed models of valuation, and prefrontal control systems, the paper shows that cognition emerges from the dynamic...
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that the ability to sense internal bodily signals, interoceptive awareness, is central to embodied consciousness and adaptive self-regulation. Yet, the cognitive mechanisms by which interoceptive processes shape the continuity of conscious experience remain insufficiently understood. One such mechanism may be time perspective, a framework reflecting...
The article is devoted to the consideration of the current state of Russian neurophilosophy based on scientific articles published from 2015 to 2024. Russian neurophilosophy is becoming a significant part of the naturalistic and experimental directions of the philosophy of consciousness and serves as a space for constructive interaction between philosophers, neurobiologists, cognitive...