Spiritual warfare occupies a central place in Nigerian Christianity, reflecting the complex interplay between African cosmologies, socio-political realities, and Christian theological frameworks. It involves struggles against spiritual oppression and the pursuit of communal well-being, resonating with African religious consciousness where material and spiritual realms are closely intertwined....
Grief is a profound and universal human experience, yet its expression and management are deeply shaped by cultural, psychological, and spiritual factors. Traditional models such as the Kübler-Ross stages and the dual process model have contributed to understanding bereavement, but they often lack the transpersonal dimension that many individuals rely on for healing. Yogic philosophy,...
The article explores the philosophical problem of consciousness and discusses the question: “Why does consciousness exist?” Two opposing positions are considered cognitive naturalism and New Mysterianism in the context of contemporary debates on the hard problem of consciousness. The purpose of the study is to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and to outline ways of their...
The most well known study on doing nothing concluded that being alone for 15 mins with nothing to do but think is aversive. Here we examine skilful doing nothing in the form of Stillness Meditation. Meditation-naive adult participants (N = 165) were randomly allocated to 15 mins of Stillness Meditation or one of two active controls (Focused Attention and Audiobook). Stillness Meditation...
The present age is the age of unprecedented scientific achievements and development of material resources. In this age, one hand science has helped in making human life simple and comfortable by developing material resources and other hand it has also make humans mentally and spiritually ill. The decline of the basic moral values is decreasing day by day. Buddhist philosophy is fundamentally a...
The nature of self-awareness has been a topic of inquiry for thousands of years, with profound implications for law and ethics, as well as for understanding a host of neurological and psychiatric pathologies. An influential view in philosophy of mind is that the "self" is a construct of consciousness, its basic functions - such as the sense of agency, the capacity by which we attribute sensory...
September 29, 2025Joel Snyder, Hirohito M. Kondo, Erin E. Hannon
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Research on relatively simple forms of visual perception with limited emotional content has dominated the empirical and theoretical efforts to identify the neural basis of consciousness. In contrast, research on auditory affective experiences like misophonia, autonomous sensory meridian responses (ASMR), and musical chills promises to broaden our understanding of consciousness and challenge...
Consciousness does not always fade during sleep. Instead, it can re-emerge in the form of non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), such as lucid dreams (LDs), sleep paralysis (SP), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and false awakenings (FAs). While some of these states have been studied phenomenologically, their neurophysiological underpinnings remain unclear. In this exploratory study, we...
This study aims to investigate the foundational information and specific needs for developing a learning model that promotes stress self-awareness among Grade 12th students. Grounded in the framework of Contemplative Education, the research integrates both theoretical and practical perspectives to guide its design. Data were collected through a comprehensive review of academic literature,...
medRxivSeptember 27, 2025Grace M Elliott, Madeline M Robertson, Celine E Locklear et al.
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People who report experiencing alcohol-related blackouts (ARBs) are at increased risk of alcohol-related injury and even death. Blackout susceptibility is heritable and blackouts are not experienced by all who engage in hazardous drinking. Blackout is defined by anterograde amnesia, but a person in the blackout state also maintains consciousness and motor control at high levels of intoxication,...