The activity and creativity of Svetlana Zarasyevna Hodger, a Nanai craftswoman and storyteller, help her relatives solve various life problems. This article investigates the influence of her lucid dreams on the process of creating works of art and crafts, which have long been of interest to ethnographers, art historians, and local historians in Russia. Her works have been presented in...
Relevance of the Study. This paper addresses the enduring philosophical and cultural significance of the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness) within Zen Buddhism, highlighting its role as a distinctive alternative to Western metaphysical paradigms. In the context of growing scholarly interest in comparative philosophy and global Buddhist studies, revisiting the cultural transformations of śūnyatā in...
This work presents a innovative ontological framework centered on the primacy of differentiation, offering a profound rethinking of being, consciousness, and relationality. Drawing from philosophy, science, religion, and technology, the author articulates a layered model of reflexive differentiation (R0–R7), which charts the emergence of complexity—from biological individuation to ethical...
: Using the phenomenological method to interpret and practice Buddhist thought, this approach focuses on explaining core concepts such as dependent origination and emptiness theory, and their deepening impact on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. It aims to establish a dialogue framework between phenomenology and Buddhist thought. Through literature review and theoretical comparison,...
This book is the first to systematically explore the kata practice of the Japanese pathways arts as a philosophical discipline. Drawing on Buddhist sources, it develops a conception of practice that takes bodily postures and movement patterns not only as objects, but also as methods of inquiry. Through engagement with Zen meditation, breathing practice, tea ceremony, Nō theatre, and martial...
The mind matter problem is an age old philosophical one which engaged the minds of scholars from the Vedic period through those of neuroscience of modern age and the quantum physicists in the 20th century. The vedic sages considered consciousness not only as primordial, but also universal and ubiquitous, causative of matter (reality in its various aspects). According to neuroscience...
This article is focused on the philosophy of Arnold Gehlen, one of the founders, with Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner, of the important tradition of German philosophical anthropology in the twentieth century, especially thanks to his masterpiece Der Mensch (1940). After a short introductory section on the struggle of various twentieth century philosophers (mostly in the movements of...
Neutral hypnosis offers a valuable state for researchers interested in the nature of consciousness. By minimizing external influences and suggestions, it allows for the investigation of the intrinsic qualities of hypnotic consciousness and its relationship to normal waking states. Studies have shown that neutral hypnosis can result in a significant shift in self-perception. Self-consciousness...
Internalism and the Limits of Twin Earth Scenarios: A Study of Phenomenal Intentionalism explores visual perceptual experiences and whether nor not visual intentional content is internal or external. Coming from the standpoint of phenomenal intentionalism, this book assumes that phenomenal consciousness is internal to the subject of a perceptual experience. Jan Almäng argues that the structure...
Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment. In an argument for the transcendence of limiting dualisms in thinking, she explores how western postmodernism and Indian classical thought can speak to one another across centuries,...