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March 14, 2022 Charu Thapliyal
In this chapter, two distinct Indian philosophical traditions are compared – one Hindu, the other Buddhist – to support the conclusion that meditation is essential to both philosophies, as two separate but similar traditions that evidence the overall premise of this Handbook – that meditation is a valid element of philosophy. The chapter begins with a discussion of the four stages of...
March 14, 2022 Christian Coseru 4 citations
Nirvana is sometimes described as stopping the world – transcending what phenomenologists describe as the (conventional) life-world. This chapter examines the implications of cognitive attenuation in such meditative absorptions, raising philosophical and phenomenological questions about the ways examination of such states, and their neuroscientific underpinnings, may play a role in resolving...
March 14, 2022 John Vervaeke 7 citations
This chapter builds on earlier work of reformulating the mindfulness construct by transforming the standard feature list for mindfulness into a feature schema. It does this by replacing a language for training mindfulness with a language for explaining mindfulness. This reformulation affords an important distinction between meditation and contemplation as well as generating an explanation of...
March 14, 2022 Georges Dreyfus
This chapter argues that phenomenological reduction, on the one hand, and the sort of contemplative reduction that constitutes meditation practice, on the other hand, have tremendous potential for comparative analysis, but that there are limits to conceiving them too closely along similar lines. In identifying many of the commonalities and differences between phenomenological and contemplative...
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies March 11, 2022 Suze Berkhout, E. Mark Stern 2 citations
This paper explores intersections of cure, harm, diagnostic practices, and lifeworlds of mental disability within the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on findings from a collaborative art workshop developed within an ethnographic study of first episode psychosis, we contrast the experience and phenomenology of psychosis within the art workshops with the construction of psychosis in...
Technium Social Sciences Journal March 9, 2022 Eleni Mitsea, Athanasios Drigas, C. Skianis
The purpose of the current review study is to shed light on the relationship between respiration and attention. Specifically, we examined whether and how respiration can provoke alterations in attentional states. Secondly, we investigated the benefits of breath-control training techniques in attention. Furthermore, we explored the effectiveness of virtual reality breathing training in improving...
Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences March 8, 2022 Shakeel Ahmed, Imran Ahmad Sajid, Samia Shakeel 1 citation
This phenomenological study explores the traits of substance-induced mysticism at the Rehman Baba shrine in Pakistan. The shrine of Rehman Babais frequently visited by many. Some of the Malang(monks) use marijuana to induce a mystic experience. It has become a socially acceptable practice at this shrine. It uses non-participant observation of the substance users and exploratory interviews along...
Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) March 8, 2022 Stella Maris Valiensi, Cecilia Raffaelli, Roberto Rosler et al.
It is called lucid dreaming, when the dreamer is aware that he is dreaming and can control the dream content. We lack Spanish-speaking tools that assess the presence of lucid dreams, so our objectives were to carry out the adaptation to Spanish and cross-cultural interpretation of the Lucidity and Consciousness in Dreams Scale (LuCID) and to evaluate the presence of lucid dreamers....
C&EN Global Enterprise March 7, 2022 Bethany Halford
Over the past decade, psychedelic compounds like psilocybin and ecstasy have emerged as potentially life-changing treatments for mental illnesses, including major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Read on to learn how some companies are trying to bring these once-demonized drugs to market and how others are hoping to use chemistry to eliminate their hallucinogenic effects—a...
Cerebral Cortex March 4, 2022 Anna Eiserbeck, Alexander Enge, Milena Rabovsky et al.
One of the ongoing debates about visual consciousness is whether it can be considered as an all-or-none or a graded phenomenon. While there is increasing evidence for the existence of graded states of conscious awareness based on paradigms such as visual masking, only little and mixed evidence is available for the attentional blink paradigm, specifically in regard to electrophysiological...