Religions
October 18, 2022
Paul Marshall
4 citations
Mystical experiences can bring an overwhelming sense that deeper realities have been contacted or that the everyday world has been apprehended as it truly is. Philosophical study of the experiences has not given much attention to their metaphysical significance, especially to the insights they may offer on fundamental issues such as the nature of reality, self, consciousness, and time. There...
NeuroSci
October 17, 2022
Chiara Saracini
Many interesting theories of consciousness have been proposed, but so far, there is no "unified" theory capable of encompassing all aspects of this phenomenon. We are all aware of what it feels like to be conscious and what happens if there is an absence of consciousness. We are becoming more and more skilled in measuring consciousness states; nevertheless, we still "don't get it" in its deeper...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
October 17, 2022
Bruno J. Weder
34 citations
Background: Mindfulness affects human levels of experience by facilitating the immediate and impartial perception of phenomena, including sensory stimulation, emotions, and thoughts. Mindfulness is now a focus of neuroimaging, since technical and methodological developments in magnetic resonance imaging have made it possible to observe subjects performing mindfulness tasks. Objective: We set...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
October 16, 2022
Teresa Gargiulo
Abstract. In psycho-clinical research, the notion of spirituality acquires a semantic plurality. This equivocal and ambiguous connotation that characterizes this term represents an obstacle to research designs’ epistemic and methodological validity, recognized as the threat to construct validity. To overcome this difficulty, we introduce the notions of intentionality and transcendence from...
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
October 15, 2022
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
Abstract Among life’s biggest questions—up there with the origins of the universe—is: Why and how are people aware at all? The sense of awareness, or what is commonly called “phenomenal consciousness,” or just consciousness, is not currently understood by scientists. Scientists do, of course, understand many of the contents of consciousness, such as mental processes like perceptions, thoughts,...
The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
October 15, 2022
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
Abstract Mystical experiences are among the most well-studied spiritual experience. This chapter defines mystical experience as inner experiences involving an intensely felt fading of the sense of self and/or feelings of increased connectedness, up to and including the sense of complete unity. These kinds of feelings go well beyond our normal day to day sense of self-awareness. In ordinary...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 12, 2022
Jessica K. Yankulova, Lisa Moreno Zacher, Anthony G. Velasquez et al.
1 citation
In 1959, Neal Miller made the bold claim that the Stimulus–Response, Behaviorist models of that era were describing the way in which stimuli lead to the entry of contents into consciousness (“entry,” for short). Today, researchers have begun to investigate the link between external stimuli and involuntary entry, using paradigms such as the reflexive imagery task (RIT), the focus of our review....
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 11, 2022
Pablo Mallaroni, Natasha L. Mason, Lilian Kloft et al.
4 citations
preprint
Abstract The knowledge that brain functional connectomes are both unique and reliable has enabled behaviourally relevant inferences at a subject level. However, it is unknown whether such “fingerprints” persist under altered states of consciousness. Ayahuasca is a potent serotonergic psychedelic which elicits a widespread dysregulation of functional connectivity. Used communally in religious...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
October 10, 2022
Christopher S. Stauffer, Melanie Brown, Dee Adams et al.
40 citations
Introduction Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people experience stigma, discrimination, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at higher rates compared to the general population; however, TGD people have been underrepresented in PTSD research. Clinical trials of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy demonstrate promising safety and efficacy for the...
مجلة جامعة الفيوم للعلوم التربوية والنفسية
October 8, 2022
حنان محمد محمد عبدالرازق, صبری عبدالله شندی شندی, هناء محمد صبری صبری
مستخلص البحث إن الذات المتمثلة فى الإنسان هي الحقيقة التي يتحقق من خلالها وجوده كذات مؤثرة في العالم الخارجي، وأن التفكير هو الخاصية التي لازمت الذات، وهذا ما أكده الفيلسوف ديكارت من خلال شكه فى ذاته، واستدل على وجود الذات من خلال التفكير، أما الفيلسوف هوسرل فيؤكد أن الوعي قصدي حيث الاتجاه نحو الشىء المفكر فيه من خلال الذات لذا، يتضح أن ماكجين يرى الوعي الذاتي معرفة بالذات؛ حيث إنه مثله مثل...