There is growing scientific evidence for the therapeutic benefits of the Amazonian plant-based psychedelic "ayahuasca" for neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety. However, there are certain challenges when incorporating botanical ayahuasca into biomedical research and clinical therapy environments. Formulations inspired by ayahuasca, which contain specific and standardized...
The study of consciousness is a long-standing central challenge in the relationship between the brain and the mind. One key step towards understanding consciousness is to empirically narrow down neural processes associated with the subjective experience of a particular content (neural reductionism). The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the...
Indrajāla is the concept of universal holographic interrelationship which relates to energy, consciousness and continuity of universal multidimensional processes. This concept is related to Vedic Cosmology which denies separateness in the universe. This article describes the concept of Indrajāla in the Vedas which later became the central doctrine in Buddhism. This concept has great...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who had an NDE. The interviews were analyzed with phenomenological hermeneutical method for their lived experiences and the meaning for the view of life and death. Four participants were interviewed 10...
Jagna Brudzińska's Bi-Valenz der Erfahrung: Assoziation, Imaginäres und Trieb in derGenesis der Subjektivität bei Husserl und Freud is the first book-length study 1 to investigate the relationship of phenomenology and psychoanalysis from the perspective of Edmund Husserl's genetic philosophy. 2 The book addresses scholars of philosophy and psychology who wish to gain a deeper understanding of...
Within the clinical framework of a case of schizophrenic psychosis confronted with the lockdown, some destabilizing discoveries of quantum mechanics and its implications in neuroscience and psychoanalysis are introduced. Through fractal logic, the Author attempts attempt to understand on the one hand the relationship between microscopic phenomena and macroscopic processes of the psyche and on...
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the results of all meta-analyses on anomalous cognition conducted between 1989 and 2021 in order to find moderators associated with greater effect sizes. Method: We included all meta-analyses of studies related to anomalous cognition published up to 2021. Results: Our dataset, accumulated over more than 80 years of investigation, refers to 11...
This article highlights the ontological nature of the absolute vacuum in Mocombe’s phenomenological structuralism and consciousness field theories. Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts, relations, and things of the multiverse, which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of language, mathematics, and social structure. The facts,...
В статье исследуется дихотомия «сознание-тело» в контексте искусственного интеллекта (ИИ). Философы с древних времен пытаются решить эту серьезную проблему, но с появлением ИИ он стала еще более актуальной. В исследуемой дихотомии «сознание-тело» создание искусственного сознания становится центральной трудно разрешимой задачей для философии. Развитие ИИ продолжается быстрыми темпами, и вопрос...
ABSTRACT This research empasizes on digging the consept of Syat{ah{at of Sufis where several tasawuf companion showed their psychological condition up on paradoct position, switces themselves on God position. Then, trought researching on Syat{ah{at of Sufis in psychological approach, researcher found several conclusions; i.e. (a) etimologically, Syat}ah}at means shaking (al-h}arakah); (b)...