En pleine conscience ? Au-delà de l’inconscient par les neurosciences méditatives et les sciences contemplatives

Abstract

ObjectiveThis paper examines the current of Mindfulness, which claims to extend the boundaries of the unconscious by extending and deepening the field of consciousness. MethodThe paper is structured in four parts corresponding to four models of mindfulness: meditation, mindfulness, activation and emergence, ranging from control by consciousness to the involuntary awakening of the living body. ResultsIf the laws of feedback and adaptation of the living body are known, the effects of the spontaneous adaptation to the environment of living beings produce mutations, the effects of which are only known to us through the experience of consciousness, and entail a time-lapse. DiscussionBy exploring the differences in these methodologies, the awakening of the living in the body can be easily distinguished from the voluntary movements of consciousness. ConclusionMeditative neurosciences and contemplative sciences reach beyond the unconscious by implicating a principle of continuity in the inventory of the activity of the living, or a principle of discontinuity in the involuntary emergence of the living.