- May 2024
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework.[1] The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defense against the growing rationalism of Western society.[2] William James popularised the concept.[2] In some religions, this may result in unverified personal gnosis.[3][4]
Religious experience (also mystical) emerged as a concept in te 19th century due to the dominant discourse of rationalism in the West.
See William James, but also Rilke who had a religious experience when going to Russia (and probably many others).
-
- Nov 2021
-
Local file Local file
-
We report the first neural recording during ecstatic meditations called jhanas and test whether a brain reward system plays a rolein the joy reported. Jhanas are Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) that imply major brain changes based on subjective reports:(1) external awareness dims, (2) internal verbalizations fade, (3) the sense of personal boundaries is altered, (4) attention is highlyfocused on the object of meditation, and (5) joy increases to high levels. The fMRI and EEG results from an experienced meditatorshow changes in brain activity in 11 regions shown to be associated with the subjective reports, and these changes occur promptlyafter jhana is entered. In particular, the extreme joy is associated not only with activation of cortical processes but also with activationof the nucleus accumbens (NAc) in the dopamine/opioid reward system. We test three mechanisms by which the subject mightstimulate his own reward system by external means and reject all three. Taken together, these results demonstrate an apparentlynovel method of self-stimulating a brain reward system using only internal mental processes in a highly trained subject.
I can find no other research on this particular matter. It would be helpful to have other studies to validate or invalidate this one. This method of reward requires a highly-trained participant and involves no external means.
-
- Oct 2020
-
news.sky.com news.sky.com
-
Coronavirus excess fatalities: How pandemic is impacting the lives and deaths of those who don’t have COVID. (n.d.). Sky News. Retrieved October 15, 2020, from https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-excess-fatalities-how-pandemic-is-impacting-the-lives-and-deaths-of-those-who-dont-have-covid-12103141
-
- Aug 2020
-
covid-19.iza.org covid-19.iza.org
-
Trust in the Time of Corona. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 4, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13386/
-
- Jul 2020
-
osf.io osf.io
-
Lyttelton, T., Zang, E., & Musick, K. (2020). Gender Differences in Telecommuting and Implications for Inequality at Home and Work. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tdf8c
-
- Jun 2020
-
web.uvic.ca web.uvic.ca
-
Welcome to my lab | Steve Lindsay’s Lab. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2020, from http://web.uvic.ca/~dslind/
-