Out-of-body experiences (OBEs), defined as the subjective sensation of having a personal identity separate from one's physical body, have captivated humanity across cultures and throughout history. While artificial induction techniques have provided valuable insights into the neural correlates of bodily self-consciousness, these artificially generated experiences often lack the perceptual and...
This paper explores David Abram’s non-fiction work Becoming Animal, highlighting, how his extensive use of metaphorical language reveals and enacts the embodied character of human experience. The physical dimension of metaphor invites the reader to sense the protagonist’s carnality as resonating within their own body, and through this heightened bodily awareness, to experience a reciprocal...
Contemporary psychology stands at a turning point. During the past century, its subfields—Clinical, Behavioural, Cognitive, Neuroscientific, and Social—have expanded rapidly, yet the discipline itself has become fragmented. Each school illuminates a segment of experience while the indivisible person, who thinks, feels, and acts as one, remains conceptually divided among them. Holistic...
This article proposes a reflection on listening as a practice of decolonizing the body and thought. Drawing from a near-death experience in which sound and vibration manifested as the final forms of consciousness, the study investigates listening not merely as a perceptual act, but as a mode of existence, a way of relating to the world that transcends the dichotomy between body and mind,...
Saif-ul-Malook is one of Mian Muhammad Bakhsh's important works of Punjabi Sufi poetry, and through the story of love, he has included the inner meaning of life and spiritual change. While the story is told through Prince Saif-ul-Malook's quest for Badi-ul-Jamal, there is much more to it than the romance of desire and love. The work is about human struggles, desires, sufferings, endurance,...
This article explores whether a machine can truly show devotion including faith, sacrifice, and consciousness or if these qualities are uniquely human. Using Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun, the study analyzes the story of Klara, an artificial friend who cares deeply for a human girl. This study employs a qualitative textual analysis guided by the posthumanist frameworks of Rosi...
This article is grounded in the perspective of “harmony” and the tradition of “embodying the Dao” from classical Chinese philosophy and integrated with phenomenological body theory. It explores the intrinsic alignment between the traditional life cultivation theory of “imbibing the great harmony”1 and modern embodied cognition theory, supported by practical case studies. Through the practice of...
The revelation thesis, namely the claim that introspection or phenomenal concepts reveal the full essence of conscious states, has recently become a central topic in the philosophy of mind. On the one hand, many argue that the plausibility of anti‐physicalist arguments (such as conceivability arguments) depends on it. On the other hand, the revival of panpsychism has also invoked the revelation...
This study aims to elucidate the essence of Indonesian elementary school students' lived experiences of mindfulness meditation and how it shapes their perceptions of concentration and memory in the context of "Freedom to Learn." A hermeneutic-phenomenological study was conducted with five students in grades 4-5. Data were generated through in-depth conversations and participant observations...
This article advances a comprehensive reinterpretation of Islamic mystical metaphysics through the development of Quantum-Relational ʿIrfān (QRI), a theoretical framework that bridges classical doctrines of unity and contemporary relational ontology. While Ibn ʿArabī’s ontology of waḥdat al-wujūd and Mullā Ṣadrā’s graded existentialism constitute the most sophisticated pre-modern articulations...