International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
September 5, 2022
Thao Phuong Nguyen
In the modern industrial world, high-end technologies and large-scale social institutions have resulted in a fundamental separation between individuals, as well as between humans and the living world. Nowadays, our lives seem to completely dependent on a man-made world ? the economy, electric power, cars and highways, and the medical system; consequently, we depend more on the techno sphere...
INSPIRA
September 5, 2022
Rida Irfan, Ayesha Aziz
The current qualitative study aimed to explore the mystical experiences among religious preachers. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select a sample of (n=10) religious preachers who had encountered at least one mystical experience. The transcendental phenomenological approach was used to capture the essence of the mystical experiences through an in-depth semi-structured interview...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues
September 3, 2022
Jeffrey Guss
ABSTRACT As interest in psychedelics as treatments for psychological problems grows, it is important for psychoanalysts to learn about them. Our patients will come to us to discuss their psychedelic experiences; additionally, psychedelics deserve reconsideration as meaningful collaborators with our field, at both the theoretical and clinical levels. After a brief history of these agents, the...
Psychoanalytic Dialogues
September 3, 2022
Megan Rundel
ABSTRACT As the use of psychedelic agents become a part of mental health treatment, psychoanalysts have the challenge of theorizing how they affect the psyche and the relational field, as well as how they might become part of an analytic process. In this paper, I explore three aspects of psychedelic experience and some ways we might start to understand them in analytic terms. I discuss states...
Phainomenon
September 1, 2022
J. D. Díaz Álvarez
Abstract This paper reads Husserl’s phenomenology as an attempt to solve the crisis of our civilization. It is well known that for him the deep roots of this crisis are related to a misunderstanding of the idea of rationality that leads to skepticism and relativism. It is also well known that in order to overcome this situation Husserl will propound a new idea of reason and rationality that...
Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Sharia h Sciences and Islamic Studies
September 1, 2022
Alia Al-Qarni
The concept of astral projection revolves around the assumption of an out-of-body state, assuming an astral aura separate from the physical body capable of traveling outside of it, and realizing a person's ability to leave their body and travel through the ether to anywhere it wants. Also, the source of knowledge for the astral projection experimenters is the person himself, with the connection...
Universal Journal of Psychology
September 1, 2022
Kahraman Güler, Nuket Oyguç
This study was prepared to examine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on cognitive flexibility and early maladaptive schemas in a group of young adults. The research was carried out with the participation of 18 young adults without a psychiatric diagnosis. The research process consists of eight weeks, with each week's session lasting two and a half hours. In addition to...
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
September 1, 2022
John D'amico
Abstract:Taking a cognitive approach to Huysmans's 1887 novel En rade, this article studies the writer's aesthetic transmutation of the theories of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920)—a figure widely known as one of the founders of modern psychology. The protagonist, Jacques Marles, invokes Wundt's claim that an extended foot during sleep may prompt the experience of falling in a dream. This explanation...
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
September 1, 2022
Subhash Kak
This paper considers several aspects of the relationship between size, structure, speed of propagation and the number of autonomous cognitive agents in a neural network. While memory and function generation capacities of neural networks with scale-invariant structure have been investigated extensively, the number of autonomous agents, associated with the simultaneous processing of the...
International Journal of Yoga
September 1, 2022
Mrithunjay Rathore, Meghnath Verma, Mohit Nirwan et al.
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Meditation is a practice of concentration and relaxation. In philosophical terms, it is a process of gaining self-consciousness. Although there is diversity in meditation (Mindfulness, compassion, transcendental, and focused attention meditation), interventions show that meditation practices improve prefrontal cortex (PFC) functions like cognition, self-awareness, attention, and memory and...