Human Arenas
December 1, 2022
Rosa Traversa
1 citation
Death seems still to be a taboo in contemporary society, and in Psychology as well. Crucial debates around the end of life are emerging in a variety of clinical, cultural, and philosophical realms in relation to the meaning of consciousness and near-death experiences. After the advent of quantum physics, the very notion of ‘evidence-based science’ has profoundly changed and new markers on the...
Vestnik NSU Series History and Philology
December 1, 2022
Evgeniya Desnitskaya
Gerhard Oberhammer is a prominent Austrian scholar of Indian philosophy and religions. This paper presents an analysis of Oberhammer’s works on spiritual practices of sāṃkhya and yoga. Based on the works that belong to the traditions of sāṃkhya, Patañjali’s yoga and the Pāśupata’s śaivism, Oberhammer reconstructed the phenomenology of each spiritual path and developed a general typology of...
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
December 1, 2022
Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Scott Kelso et al.
44 citations
Flow is a cognitive state that manifests when there is complete attentional absorption while performing a task. Flow occurs when certain internal as well as external conditions are present, including intense concentration, a sense of control, feedback, and a balance between the challenge of the task and the relevant skillset. Phenomenologically, flow is accompanied by a loss of...
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
November 30, 2022
Tennyson Samraj
Metaphysics deals with the intelligible world of questions and the explicable world of intentionality. Metaphysics is explicable, and its explicability is connected to questions related to what there is to know about the nature of reality. While physics deals with what is and what else there is, metaphysics deals with the nature of reality and what else there is to know about the nature of...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 30, 2022
Eve Ekman, Christopher J. Koenig, Jennifer Daubenmier et al.
5 citations
Contemplative science has made great strides in the empirical investigation of meditation practices, such as how mindfulness, compassion, and mantra practices impact health and well-being. However, meditation practices from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition that use mental imagery to transform distressing beliefs and emotions have been little explored. We examined the “Feeding Your Demons”...
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews
November 30, 2022
Calixto Machado, Andrew B. Newberg, Yanín Machado et al.
This study compares the critical neural correlates of two altered states of consciousness: near-death experience (NDE) and spiritual contemplative experience (SCE), a.k.a. mystical experience. For Centuries NDE and SCE have been reported by all faiths, including Abrahamic religious contemplatives: Christian mystics, Muslim Sufis, and Jewish Kabbalists. Their anecdotal reports show that both NDE...
November 30, 2022
Oliver Davis
8 citations
Psychedelically assisted psychotherapy (PAP) looks set to become a common remedy for a range of serious mental health problems. The market for providing PAP, including a secondary market for the training, credentialising and monitoring of therapists, is expanding rapidly. Concerns have been raised recently by actors in that secondary market about the potential for abuse in PAP, which have been...
Philosophy Journal
November 29, 2022
A.V. Smirnov
Short, middle and long-term objectives for the logic of sense are outlined. The short-term objective is, firstly, to sketch the logic-and-meaning map of the four big cultures of humankind (European, Arab-Muslim, South Asian and Far Eastern) producing the first description of the logics of sense manifold. This description will outline that variant of (1) power of judgment, (2) basic...
Philosophy Journal
November 29, 2022
Igor F. Mikhailov
The paper critically examines some theses from A.V. Smirnov’s monograph ‘The Logic of Meaning as a Philosophy of Consciousness: An Invitation to Reflection’. In particular, the statement about the inability of cognitive sciences to exhaustively explain consciousness because of its de-subjectivation within their framework. It is shown that cognitive sciences are generally able to cope with the...
British Journal of Religious Education
November 28, 2022
Geoff Teece
theory . . . . has the merit that it does not lead us to play down the differences between the various forms of religious experience and thought. It does not generate any pressure to think that God the Father and Brahman, or Allah and the Dharmakaya, are phenomenologically, i.e. as experienced and described, identical; or that the human responses which they evoke, in spiritual practices,...