Background: The States of Consciousness Questionnaire (SOCQ) was developed to assess the occurrence features of the change in consciousness induced by psilocybin, and includes the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), developed to assess the ocurrence of mystical experiences in altered states of consciousness. Objective: To translate the SOCQ to Brazilian Portuguese and validate the 30-item...
Theologia ViatorumDecember 31, 2016S. D. Edwards, Sumeshni Govender, Dumisani Russel Nzima et al.
This article is intended as an original contribution towards contemplation of the Self with special reference to a spiritual and transpersonal psychological context. An integral approach involving a heuristic phenomenological investigation of four participant researchers’ contemplation derived experiences is described. Individual and collective descriptions reveal immediate, direct, contact...
‘인문치료’라는 분야는 매우 생소한 연구분야로서, 2009년에 처음 등장하게 된다. 이는 국내에서 생산된 용어라는 점에서도 주목받는다. 인문치료는 인문학적 정신과 방법을 통해 마음의 건강을 지향한다는 목적을 갖는다. 그런데 이러한 방법론은 이미 다양한 인문학적 전통에서는 내재적(內在的)으로 갖고 있는 것이기도 하다. 다만 이것을 ‘인문치료’라는 용어로 표현하지 않았을 뿐이다. 인문치료의 방법론은 매우 다양하다. 읽기, 쓰기, 말하기 등은 물론 음악, 영화, 연극, 미술 등의 다양한 방법론을 제시한다. 본 논문은 여기에 불교의 철학과 명상을 인문치료의 방법론으로 제시하고자 함을 목적으로 하였다.BR 불교의 철학과 명상은 이미 다양한 심리치료 프로그램에서 응용되고 있음은 주지의 사실이다. 그런데 본 논문은...
Man’s basic attitude towards reality determines his end. Man either opts to accept reality and becomes an optimist or denies and becomes a pessimist. The study presented the reality of human experience. And these experiences of human reality all boil into the experience of one’s self and become a test of subjectivity. In the history of philosophy of Man, this outlook into the experience...
Abstract Conscious and attended perception is commonly thought to elicit fronto-parietal activity. However, supportive evidence comes largely from studies which involve detecting a target and reporting its visibility. This approach confounds conscious perception with goal completion of either the perceptual task of detection or the metacognitive task of introspective reporting. In contrast, in...
Introduction: The chronic nature of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), have can leave devastating effects on quality of life and fatigue. The present research aimed to study the effect of group Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and conscious yoga program on the quality of life and fatigue severity among patients with MS. Methods: This study was quasi-experimental with intervention and control...
Many people have dealt with the question of God, as have the entire history of religion and philosophy. Numerous difficulties arise while trying to understand this question. Surely, for great minds of mankind, in the East as well in the West, it was an acceptable thought that God could not be conceived or expressed by no concept or utterance, i.e. defined by no definition. 1erefore, God is for...
The minimal state of consciousness is sentience. This includes any phenomenal sensory experience - exteroceptive, such as vision and olfaction; interoceptive, such as pain and hunger; or proprioceptive, such as the sense of bodily position and movement. We propose unlimited associative learning (UAL) as the marker of the evolutionary transition to minimal consciousness (or sentience), its...
Even though understanding is a very widely used concept, both colloquially and in scholarly work, its definition is nebulous and it is not well-studied as a psychological construct, compared to other psychological constructs like learning and memory. It is hard to study understanding based on third-person behavioral data or neural data alone. Understanding refers to a first-person experience of...
Current theories in the framework of hierarchical predictive coding propose that positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions and hallucinations, arise from an alteration in Bayesian inference, the term inference referring to a process by which learned predictions are used to infer probable causes of sensory data. However, for one particularly striking and frequent symptom of...