Seven Editora eBooksDecember 30, 2025Lucas Guilherme Tetzlaff de Gerone, Ricardo Francelino, Rafael Santos de Aquino et al.
Spirituality, ethics, and morality have increasingly gained prominence as interpretative keys for understanding human development and rethinking integral education in educational contexts. This chapter aims to examine, from a psychological perspective, how spirituality, morality, and ethics are articulated and how they can underpin projects of integral education oriented toward humanization,...
This study examines the lived experiences of followers of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Order, focusing on Sufi meditation practices and their influence on mental health. Adopting a qualitative phenomenological design, data were gathered through observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation involving three adolescents engaged in Sufi meditation in Klaten, Indonesia. The study reveal that three...
The study of consciousness is gaining importance in both neuroscience and the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We show here that an advanced White Matter (WM) tractography method, termed gridography, can explore the potential integration of two prominent theories of consciousness: Global Workspace Theory (GWT) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT). Using gridography on...
Purpose. The study aims to examine the main methodological principles of Ken Wilber’s integral philosophy in the context of integral anthropology as an emerging branch of philosophical anthropology, shaped by the challenges of globalization, providing a rich toolkit for a more comprehensive understanding of human nature, consciousness, culture, and evolution. To achieve this goal, the authors...
This study asks what it means to question quietness (hēsychia): to treat a state cultivated in long silence as something that can, after an unpredictable wait, be brought to speech. Its primary witness is the spiritual autobiography of Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov (1896–1993), read alongside the transcribed record of his Monday meetings with the monastic community of St John the Baptist in...
N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a fast-acting psychedelic drug that induces a radical reorganization of conscious contents and brain dynamics. However, our understanding of how brain dynamics support psychedelic-induced conscious states remains unclear. We therefore present a repeated-measures dose-dependent study of the subjective and neural dynamics induced through DMT under naturalistic...
Does being awake necessarily mean being conscious of something? This study investigates the phenomenon of mind blanking (MB), characterized by an "emptiness of mind," comparing it with mind wandering (MW) and on-task (ON) states. Using a sustained attention task and electroencephalogram monitoring, behavioral, and neurophysiological signatures of MB were examined in 62 participants. MB...
The article is devoted to a comparative study of Hesychasm in its relation to Gnosticism. According to contemporary research, Hesychasm is regarded not only as an Eastern Orthodox practice of silent prayer, but also as an intellectual movement represented by Gregory Palamas and his followers. This movement consisted of secular forms described as Political Hesychasm and Laical Hesychasm....
Abstract This paper proposes a structural model to explain the generation of the experienced world. It argues that the world experienced by the subject is not a direct mapping of external reality, but rather a result generated through the interaction of external input, cognitive rendering structures, meaning-endowment orientation, and the state of attachment (upādāna). The "external input" (D)...
The present paper proposes an interdisciplinary and exploratory framework integrating artificial intelligence (AI), consciousness studies, Vedic astrology, and sacred geometry through Śrī Chakra symbolism. The model introduces a novel approach to horoscopic personality mapping by encoding astrological planetary configurations and Śrī Chakra geometric structures as symbolic inputs to multi-modal...