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Consuming Research
Consuming Research discusses research from the perspective of professionals as critical consumers of research and provides readers with tips and...
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5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine: An Ego-Dissolving Endogenous Neurochemical Catalyst of Creativity
5-Methoxy- N,N -dimethyltryptamine (acronymized as 5-MeO-DMT) is sui generis among the numerous naturally occurring psychoactive substances due to its...
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Phenomenological Research Fails to Capture the Experience of Nondual Awareness
Over the past two decades, a comprehensive literature has emerged about the health benefits of mindfulness-based interventions. Many of the practices...
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What Do Meditators Do When They Meditate? Proposing a Novel Basis for Future Meditation Research
ObjectivesMeditation is an umbrella term for a vast range of contemplative practices. Former proposals have struggled to do justice to this variety....
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Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Self-Transcendent States: Perceived Body Boundaries and Spatial Frames of Reference
ObjectivesMindfulness training is believed to encourage self-transcendent states, but little research has examined this hypothesis. This study...
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The Self in Hindu Philosophies of Liberation
This chapter presents, in a manner accessible to non-specialists, succinct explanations of ideas pertaining to the ‘self’ within the Sankhya, Yoga,...
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Environmental Psychology: Lessons from Gandhi
A large number of thinkers have emphasized that many of the twenty-first-century problems can be solved by using strategies and techniques delineated...
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The Axial Road Not Taken: Spiritual Practices of Transcendence
The distinctive contribution of the Axial Age is the innovation of sustained spiritual practice to effect a “systematic deconstruction” of ordinary...
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Sociology of the Axial Age Civilizations
The most significant shift in Axial Age scholarship is from Jaspers’ philosophy of history approach to a sociology of civilizations approach....
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Karl Jaspers and the Axial Age
Karl Jaspers’ articulation of the Axial Age thesis has led to a contemporary explosion of scholarship on the topic. The history of scholarship on the...
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Sacred Groundlessness: Deepening the Ethics of Mindfulness in the Midst of Global Crisis
This chapter situates the question of ethics and mindfulness in the context of a global crisis—a crisis that is at once ecological, social, and...
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Zen Buddhism
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, an acceptance- and mindfulness-based cognitive behavior therapy, is said to reflect many common tenets underlying...
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Modes of Mindfulness: Prophetic Critique and Integral Emergence
As mindfulness becomes more secular and popular, there are more arguments about its purpose and use value. Because of its disparate uses, many...
