Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
February 18, 2025
Thomas Metzinger
6 citations
THE ELEPHANT AND THE BLIND: The Experience of Pure Consciousness--Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports by Thomas Metzinger. MIT Press, 2024. 648 pages. Paperback; $80.00. ISBN: 9780262547109. *What is consciousness and how can science fruitfully study it? In this book, Thomas Metzinger proposes that the experience of pure awareness occurs without "subjectivity" and will help...
Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal
February 17, 2025
Sri Haryanto, Mohammad Muslih
This research explores the impact of transpersonal psychology on the emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being of individuals. The study aims to understand how mindfulness, meditation, and holotropic therapy contribute to holistic well-being. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, the research involved 20 participants, 12 males and eight females, aged between 25 and 60 years, from...
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
February 17, 2025
Rajiv S. Rangan, R Max Petty, Suchismita Acharya et al.
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Psychedelics are well known for their ability to produce profoundly altered states of consciousness. But, more importantly, the effects of psychedelics can influence neurobehavioral changes that last well after these acute subjective effects end. This phenomenon is currently being leveraged in the development of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies for the treatment of multiple neuropsychiatric...
Schizophrenia
February 15, 2025
Joshua Chiappelli, Yizhou Ma, Tiffany Beason et al.
Adolescence and early adulthood are characterized by the development of cognitive and social skills necessary for autonomous functioning in adult roles. As classically described by Erik Erikson, this developmental process involves forging a meaningful sense of identity, comprising a worldview, set of moral values, and occupational aspirations. This may require individuals questioning or defying...
Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion
February 14, 2025
Julia Meyer
Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the religious mysticism in literature: Shaping the integration of philosophical thought in Germany. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a...
Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Social Sciences
February 13, 2025
Bishnu Prasad Pokharel, Balkrishna Sharma, S. Banu
This article investigates the traces of Vedic and Vedantic claims of the source, origin, and processes involved in the creation of knowledge. This paper argues that perceptive experience, intuitive inference, and the testimony of the Vedas form the primary epistemology of transcendental knowledge. To examine this argument, it draws on the qualitative data pooled from an array of texts like the...
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
February 13, 2025
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Contemporary Continental philosophy employs “ethnotropes” in its ethical critique of transcendental phenomenology. Ulysses, the Greek Hero, stands in for Edmund Husserl’s transcendental ego. Abraham, the Jewish Nomad, stands in for Jacque Derrida’s and Emanuel Levinas’s deconstructive subject. Ethical concerns arise when the transcendental ego is posited as the ground for all experience. The...
Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
February 13, 2025
Adil Hassan Abdelrhman Alagab
This study explores Rabi'a al-Adawiyya's philosophy on beauty and phenomenological love. Using a descriptive-analytic method, the research delves into Rabi'a's poetry and teachings to uncover her views on these profound themes. Rabi'a, a prominent figure in Islamic mysticism, is renowned for her intense longing for a direct connection with God, emphasising the beauty of the divine relationship...
bioRxiv
February 12, 2025
Nerea L Herrero, Yohann Corfdir, Aylin A Vázquez-Chenlo et al.
preprint
Consciousness does not always fade during sleep. Instead, it can re-emerge, giving rise to 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. Here, we investigate their electrophysiological correlates and distinguish them from...
PLoS One
February 12, 2025
Zishan Jiwani, Simon B. Goldberg, Jack Stroud et al.
3 citations
INTRODUCTION: Meditation practice and psychedelic use have attracted increasing attention in the public sphere and scientific research. Both methods induce non-ordinary states of consciousness that may have significant therapeutic benefits. Thus, there is growing scientific interest in potential synergies between psychedelic use and meditation practice with some research suggesting that...