Invisible World Research Articles

Scoping review on shamanistic trances practices

BackgroundShamanism is a spiritual tradition in which trance practitioners deliberately modify their state of consciousness to seemingly interact with an invisible world to resolve their community members’ problems. This review aims to provide a multidisciplinary overview of scientific research on shamanic trance.MethodsThe search was performed using PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Twenty-seven articles were found to be eligible, and their data were classified into four dimensions, namely, a) phenomenology, b) psychology, c) neuro-physiological functions, and d) clinical applications.ResultsThese studies suggest that these trances are non-pathological, different from normal states of consciousness in terms of phenomenology and neurophysiology, and influenced by multiple personal and environmental variables. Furthermore, while trances may offer therapeutic potential, their scope should be approached cautiously, underscoring the need for rigorous studies to assess the effectiveness of shamanic approaches for complementary therapies.ConclusionOverall, shamanic trance and its potential benefits remain an intriguing and multifaceted area of scientific study, offering insights into the intersections of consciousness, spirituality, and possibly therapy.

A review of “Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and Its Consequences” - H. Campbell (2021). Farming inside invisible worlds: Modernist agriculture and its consequences. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

A review of “<i>Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and Its Consequences</i>” - H. Campbell (2021). Farming inside invisible worlds: Modernist agriculture and its consequences. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Virus

A fascinating contradiction is suggested by the title "Virus Abstract": a meeting point between the intellectual domain of abstraction and the invisible world of microscopic organisms. It typifies a biological paradox in which minute creatures have a disproportionate impact and have the power to significantly affect living things and complex species. As a condensed summary of a virus's traits, behaviors, and evolutionary dynamics that emphasize both its biology and duality, a "Virus Summary" is used in scientific discourse. However, the term can also refer to more abstract representations of viral concepts found in literature, art, and even the digital world of cyber threats research. It also encourages the study of metaphorical, symbolic, and philosophical aspects of viral existence.

Schémas de représentations des imaginaires et signifiants culturels et gestion des indices de souffrance psychiqusi dae de l’enfant handicapé en Afrique

This research aims to show the impact of patterns of representations of imaginaries and cultural signifiers in the psychic suffering of children living with a disability. Indeed, in traditional African societies, the child occupies a privileged place and status which is inspired by its origins linked to the representations of imaginaries and cultural signifiers, which are related to those of the parents and the community. Despite this status and this place, the child with a disability finds himself in a difficult situation, because of his deficiency, his incapacity, his difficulty in participating in social life and psychological suffering which are the result of belonging to two diametrically opposed universes. If in this situation we do not conceive or name the psychic suffering of the child, the imagination and popular language are nonetheless full of characterizations of the malaise and the suffering of the child. The final situation that emerges from this research is that if psychic suffering can be considered as an indelible mark in a mentally disturbed and physically inoperative subject, the therapist can, through well-organized ritual practices, play the role of mediator between the visible world and the invisible world in order to reactivate and revitalize the psychic authorities of the sick subject and thus facilitate his integration into the society of the living

Twins Seven-Seven: The Glocal Framing of an International Artist in Memorial Pages

On 16 June 2011, the foremost Nigerian visual artist, Taiwo Osuntoki, popularly referred to as Twins Seven-Seven, passed away. His passing, as is common with personalities of that nature, elicited some interesting memorials across the world. Family members, close friends, admirers, art collectors and colleagues in the art community in Nigeria and across the globe flooded the art space with glowing tributes, lauding an iconic figure whose works were known to reflect the embodiment of Yoruba folklore, mythology, spiritual, ghostly and invisible worlds. This article draws on a descriptive analysis of memorials in selected local and international print media and academic outlets (journals). The intention is primarily to identify and examine some of the memorials and then engage them in ways that help to understand how Twins Seven-Seven’s image was conceived in global as well as local contexts. Given his complex and multipersonality, we ask how memorials shape the meanings that could be associated with Twins Seven-Seven’s life generally. Lastly, the paper is a fitting tribute to one of Africa’s greatest postcolonial artists, whose passing now marks more than a decade.

THE INFLUENCE OF IMDb RATINGS FOR KKN FILM IN DANCING VILLAGE ON STUDENTS' WATCHING INTERESTS (STUDENTS OF STIKOM INTERSTUDI JAKARTA)

Film is a work of art, audiovisual culture, film is a medium that can convey messages to society or a group of individuals can receive audiovisual communication through the use of film. Horror films in Indonesia were chosen as research objects because Indonesian audiences seem to enjoy getting their adrenaline pumping when watching horror films full of special effects, such as horror films with characters that are similar to figures from the invisible world, regardless of the good or bad quality of the horror film itself. This research focuses on the IMDb website because IMDb is the most famous film website, IMDb users in Indonesia reach 57 million people. This is proven by the many users who make IMDb useful for many people, especially for those who want to watch films. This research aims to find out whether there is a significant influence on the IMDb rating of the KKN film in Penari Village on interest in watching STIKOM InterStudi students. And find out how much influence ratings have on STIKOM InterStudy students&amp;#39; interest in watching. This research uses a quantitative approach with descriptive research type. This research uses 2 variables,namely the IMDb rating and interest in watching STIKOM InterStudi students from 2022-2023. The sampling technique uses non-probability sampling, namely purposive sampling. with a total sample of 90 Stikom interstudi students class 2022-2023. The data collection technique used was a questionnaire.

A BÁBOZÓ GYEREK TITKA, AVAGY A BÁBU MINT A LÉLEK KIHANGOSÍTÓJA

According to Teréz Virág (1998) a psychologist with regard to the 'mysteries' of the power of the puppet, three different spheres are worth investigating, namely the mysteries of the puppets, that of the child who plays with the object, and that of the puppeteer's. She views puppetry as creation, the puppeteer as the life-giver, and the puppet as an object of transition. When the aim is to develop the artistic methods as well as explore the 'general utility' of puppetry, it is worth further focusing on segments such as the making of the puppet, acting with the puppet, and perceiving the puppet play. These are three different viewpoints and three approaches. The study presents that the puppet in the child's hand is capable of embodying incomprehensible and insufferable feelings as well as making the unknowable accessible. In pedagogy today puppet play is believed to undoubtedly have a developmental impact, argued for widely with conventions, but it seems that there is still a lack of sincerely understanding of the being of the puppet and its mechanism of action, its principal essence. In my study, I elaborate on the questions of why and how puppet play can be of assistance, and what the puppet can actually mean in the child's hands. The puppet is an object, that makes a motion as it is assuming a role and takes action while portraying this role, it substitutes for someone or something. Being the puppet presupposes a space for the play, in which it takes the place of this someone/something by replacing what it represents. The primary goal of the study is to show that by playing with an object, a puppet lays a bridge in an abstract way between the visible and the invisible world, enabling thus art pedagogy to develop the child with its complex mode of action. The psychological mechanism of identification is best characterized by the eagerness to act, and the artistic genre of puppet play, providing the stage for action, is eminently capable of satisfying this urge. In the creative process, the approach of animation, the metaphorical thinking of the puppeteer, the abstraction as well as the development of the related assertive skills rely on all the operations of thinking; also, the simultaneity of the multi-lateral perception, the complex interpretation of communication play important roles.

과학중점고 학생들의 메타인지 형성과 발전에 대한 사례 연구

Objectives This study aims to identify the components of metacognition by analyzing the generations and results of meta-cognition and the context that affects it in science core high school students, and the context that affects it.&#x0D; Methods The researcher conducted in-depth interviews on the topic of meta-cognition with science core high school students and analyzed the raw data line by line. The researcher derived individual themes from the research participants, organized these themes into categories at the level of commonality, and analyzed them using the case study analysis method suggested by Yin (2014).&#x0D; Results A total of 47 themes were derived as a result of the study, and the researcher aggregated them to a more abstract level in terms of the commonality of learning experience and presented categories. The categories were derived from 10 categories: detailed observation, scientific thinking practice, experimentalism, cultivation of integrative thinking, intellectual collaboration, self-directed learning, making one's own formula, ability to apply theory, eyes to see the invisible world, and intellectual delight. Finally, it was rearranged into four components: planning, inspection, regulation, belief and intuition, which are the units of analysis of the case study and the components of meta-cognition. In planning, detailed observation, scientific thinking exercise, and experimentalism appeared. In inspection, cultivation of integrated thinking, intellectual collaboration, and self-directed learning were found. In regulation, the ability to create one's own formula and to apply theories was shown. In belief and intuition, it appeared as an eye that can see the invisible world and intellectual delight.&#x0D; Conclusions Based on the results of the study, the mechanisms of meta-cognitive generation, expression, context, and outcome of science core high school students were identified. In addition, suggestions were made for the implementation of fun science classes to improve meta-cognition of science core high school students.&#x0D;

Yajé como política. Territorio, petróleo y pandemia en los siekopái de la Amazonía ecuatoriana

AbstractThis article shows the political adaptations of the yajé ritual in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It focuses on the siekopái's practices of resistance, negotiation, and self‐affirmation around three contemporary issues: the recognition of their ancestral territory, the demand for reparations for environmental damage resulting from oil exploitation, and the management of care during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We argue that the inclusion of the yajé ritual in these contexts corresponds to a contested shamanic tradition, and that the deployment of its political potential is due to communal reasons and the shamans' negotiating skills in the invisible world. We conclude that the adaptations indicate an institutional flexibility that has allowed the siekopái to survive to this day in a changing and threatened environment.

Who says what is real and what is not? How are we able to see and feel the invisible worlds?

Who says what is real and what is not? How are we able to see and feel the invisible worlds?

On the importance of modeling the invisible world of underlying effect sizes

The headline findings from the Open Science Collaboration (2015)―namely, that 36% of original experiments replicated at p &lt; .05, with the overall replication effect sizes being half as large as the original effects―cannot be meaningfully interpreted without a formal model. A simple model-based approach might ask: what would the state of original science be and what would replication results show if original experiments tested true effects half the time (prior odds = 1), true effects had a medium effect size (Cohen’s δ = 0.50), and power to detect true effects was 50%? Assuming no questionable research practices, 91% of p &lt; .05 findings in the original literature would be true positives. However, only 58% of original p &lt; .05 findings would be expected to replicate using the Open Science Collaboration approach, and the replication effects overall would be only ~60% as large as the original effects. A minor variant of this model yields an expected replication rate of only 45%, with overall replication effect sizes dropping by half. If the state of original science is as grim as a non-model-based (i.e., intuitive) interpretation of the Open Science Collaboration data suggests, should it be this easy to largely account for those findings using a model in which 91% of statistically significant findings in the original science literature are true positives? Claims that the findings reported by the Open Science Collaboration indicate a replication crisis should not be based solely on intuition but should instead be accompanied by a specific model that supports that interpretation.

Юбилейная осень: Флоренский, Кропоткин, Сковорода

The review material considers the main content of three anniversary historical-philosophical events of 2022: the International Scientific Conference "The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Pavel Florensky", dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Florensky and to the 70th anniversary of Abbot Andronik (Alexander Sergeevich Trubachev, 1952–2021); scientific conference “Scientific and Philosophical Heritage of P.A. Kropotkin in the Context of History and Modernity”, dedicated to the 180th anniversary of P.A. Kropotkin; scientific conference “Instructions of a Wandering Philosopher. To the 300th anniversary of Grigory Skovoroda". The material presents the main theses of the plenary speakers, as well as the lines of controversy between the participants.

Things In Themselves: The X‐Ray and Its Embodied Space

AbstractAt the dawn of the 20th century, the development of the X‐ray and new‐found visions of the interior of bodies inspired artists including Marcel Duchamp. Visual artist and architect Paul O Robinson explores these ‘bones and organs’ within contemporary contexts, artistically exploiting the shadowy, invisible world of interiority, visible exterior form and the uncanny correspondence between them through transformative spatial and material manifestations.

How to See the Invisible: Attention, Landscape, and the Transformation of Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides

This article asks how religious traditions make otherwise invisible worlds perceptible and real for religious practitioners and analyzes the specific case of Tibetan pilgrimage literature in order to propose a theoretical account for how they do so. Specifically, I show how the textual tradition of Tibetan pilgrimage guides plays a key role in structuring the pilgrimage experience, particularly in terms of the pilgrim’s visual encounter with the material landscape. Pilgrimage guides are particularly concerned with vision because the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition maintains that holy mountains have both an outer appearance visible to ordinary people and an inner reality that only advanced beings can see. As such, the goal for pilgrims is to transform their perception so as to see the hidden reality of the mountain. To show how guides seek to facilitate such a transformation, I first identify the key literary strategies that guides use to project a fantastic vision of the holy sites they describe. Next, I demonstrate how guides recontextualize pilgrims’ ordinary perception of the pilgrimage site such that they view the ordinary in tandem with the extraordinary. I refer to this facility as “co-seeing,” or the ability to see the place in two ways at once. This co-seeing serves to ground the fantastic vision of the site in the material landscape. The article thus draws on new theoretical developments in the so-called visual turn and new materialism to provide an account of how religious traditions engage both perception and landscape to shape practitioners’ experience of the world.

Preface

The tenth international symposium on “Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” was held in Paris from 15th to 17th of December 2021 at the Institute of Astroparticle physics of the University of Paris. The 2020 issue of this conference series was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. The symposium was organized in a hybrid mode, which allowed about 40 people to attend in-person among a total of 131 registered participants. Very strict sanitary measures were taken to keep the meeting safe.As in previous events the program included neutrino physics, dark matter and axion searches, related detector R&D and theoretical aspects.To celebrate the tenth edition of the symposium the conference was held on three full days. Special speakers were invited to give a historical overview related to our field. David Nygren shared his memories of the invention and development of the Time Projection Chamber. François Vannucci revealed to us the invisible world of neutrinos. Ioannis Giomataris pointed out various innovative ideas that emerged during presentations and discussions in the last two decades. Jean Iliopoulos retraced the concept and development of the Standard Model and shared his personal vision on the future of particle physics.We wish to thank the many people who contributed to the success of the conference and especially the conveners of the sessions, who allowed for a smooth running of the meeting. We particularly acknowledge the APC management for providing the nice Buffon auditorium and infrastructure. We also thank DSM-Irfu, the University of Zaragoza, the European Research Council and ACAV Ile de France for their valuable support.The organizersList of Organizing Committee is available in this Pdf.

Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks

Reviewed by: Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks Martine Wagner and John T. Booker Brooks, Peter. Balzac's Lives. New York Review Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-68137-449-9. Pp. 266. The "lives" of the title are not those of Balzac himself (although the number of novels he wrote might make one suspect that he must have enjoyed more than one), but nine of his fictional creations. Chosen judiciously from the thousands that he brought to life, they paint a picture of "the emergent modern world, its nascent capitalism, its valuation of money above all else, its competition for social and political prominence" (4). In the process, naturally enough, they also fashion an "oblique biography" (1) of their creator, providing insight into his "inner world, its obsessions and fantasies, all that drove him in his writing" (8). Brooks begins with Rastignac, as he appears in Le père Goriot, to show how a character who is eager to learn and willing to adapt can reemerge in later novels. That also allows him to introduce Vautrin, who (as Jacques Collin) will have his own chapter in due course, and to note the discrete but crucial presence of Gobseck, the moneylender, who is the next subject. Just two of the characters who merit chapters are women: Antoinette de Langeais and Henriette de Mortsauf. Yet there is "a case to be made for a feminist Balzac," Brooks comes to suggest, at least one "who espoused with imaginative sympathy woman's condition" (75). Freudian theory, always an essential touchstone for Brooks, informs the treatment of a number of characters, such as Raphaël de Valentin, in Balzac's first real success, La peau de chagrin, where "the pleasure principle is inextricably bound up with its opposite, the death drive" (78). Chapters devoted to figures as different as Lucien de Rubempré and the enigmatic Colonel Chabert document Balzac's attentiveness to the rapid transformation of his contemporary world. When Brooks comes back to Collin, it is the role of "creator and manipulator of the lives of others" (131) that he highlights, as if the character might well have been a projection of the author himself. In a wide-ranging final chapter, Brooks muses in a more general vein about the fictional world populated by the sorts of characters he has singled out—particularly the monomaniacal types that obviously fascinated Balzac—and animated by the theatrical, often melodramatic mode that the novelist clearly preferred. "Madness is never far from the surface," he suggests, "because Balzac's whole enterprise is fundamentally mad, a pursuit of a total reckoning with the visible and invisible world" (232). This book will appeal to a broad readership, as titles of novels and quotations are in English translation. The presentation is essay-like, with relatively few notes; the writing straightforward and jargon-free. End material includes a judicious selection of critical studies, ranging from traditional [End Page 269] to more contemporary; a chronology of historical events from the Revolution to 1850, in which key points in Balzac's life are embedded; and an index. For anyone who loves French literature, a new book by Peter Brooks has always been a welcome event, and this one offers a very enjoyable reading experience. [End Page 270] John T. Booker University of Kansas Copyright © 2023 American Association of Teachers of French

LITURGICAL DRAMA AND THEATRICAL ARTS

At the first stage of Christianity spreading the Church has banned theatre show. That’s about writes Aurelius Augustine in his work “Confessions”, where on the background of continued dialogue with God, before us is opened solilokvium (lat.: soliloquium – solo – himself, alone, loqui – to speak), which uses Augustine. It should be noted that such form was assumed in the Literature or theatre performances of that time. This represents the analogy of ancient theatre form, which was used by playwrights to make familiarize with audience, certain development event. Blissful Augustine believes that what is developed on the stage and the experiences of audience – the despair on the stage, the grief appeared in the spectator and tears on the composed, this is some kind of sin and God’s banishment from you. The main postulate of early medieval thinkers, mainly ecclesiastics was ignorance of theatre shows and announcement of theatre actors and creators as sinners. Later, the church itself, for attracting crowds of people, with aim of domination on the parish, used and created not only theatre shows, but its “sketch” – liturgical (liturgy – Greek. liturgy – the main Christian religious rite: liturgy times) drama, which is based on the Biblical stories. As Maximus the Confessor writes: “The liturgy is Christian drama. It is the transition of spirit from potential state to action and is directed towards eidos, as the ultimate goal, to full implementation of telos – the whole, visible and invisible world to Christ’s coming out of the body. And the mythos, we can say, the scenario of Christ, is the St. Letter”. The liturgical drama for Maximus is: a) ritual, the reality “trimmed” with divine character, which is connecting really existing – God in the Christ’s divine personality the man – the church – the world; b) Drama, which plot is the St. letter, as Christ’s body and that it exactly in this drama the St. letter as a potential – body, is becoming Christ’s eschatological body; c) also theurgy activity, aimed at human transferring to God.

The Meaning, Spiritual Foundation, and Mythology of African Sacred Landscapes

Abstract In various cultures around the world, past and present, many natural and cultural sites are deemed sacred. What are sacred landscapes? What are the spiritual foundations for their formation? How are they formed? How are they protected? The answers to these questions help frame a discussion of sacred landscapes within the context of their meaning, origin, and management processes as lived experiences of specific societies. In Tanzania the linkages between biodiversity and the worldview of a society have partly been acknowledged but remain unexplored. This paper applies a mixed research approach to studying sacred forests among the Bena community of Njombe in Tanzania. Rather than looking exclusively at the sacred forests in themselves as places, the paper underscores the linkage of human-nature-spirituality as key in explaining the history of sacred forests. It establishes that, among the Bena, the sacredness of a place was founded on the relationship between the visible and the invisible worlds – relations that led to the formation of various mystical-religious homelands’ sacred places that are protected through mythologies.

The Invisible World of Images. From “Nonhuman” to “Undigital” Photography in Joanna Zylinska’s Reflections

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; The article presents the theoretical views and, to a lesser extent, artistic practices of Joanna Zylinska, who in her artistic activity combines epistemological strategies of a researcher and theorist with her activities in the field of art. She develops in different manners an original project of philosophy as photography, or photography as a form of philosophizing. Posthumanist and post-anthropocentric inspirations and the inclusion of her reflections in a wider circle of a nonhuman turn constitute an epistemological framework of numerous statements devoted to the “photographic condition” in the age of dominance of digital technologies. The author argues that, in fact, photography has been a nonhuman practice since its beginnings, which is developed in her book Nonhuman Photography, preceded by the concepts of mediation and photomediation. In her latest proposals addressing the issues of the functioning of art in the era of algorithmic systems, the author develops the concept of undigital photography, which constitutes an extension of thinking about those manifestations of photography that are not of/by/for the human. The idea of “vision machines” (once proposed by Paul Virilio) takes the form of a holistic view of photography as a “medium of life,” which, unlike modernist descriptions of it as a “medium of death” (Roland Barthes), makes a significant contribution to both the theory and the history of photography. The synthetic presentation of Zylinska’s concepts is an attempt to describe and interpret the contemporary state of theoretical and methodological awareness in the field of contemporary image studies. It stems from the need to constantly reinterpret the canon of thinking about the medium of photography in the epoch of cooperation between human and non-human agencies in the area of pictorial production of images addressed to both people and machines.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

Exploring the Effect of Virtual Reality on Learning in General Chemistry Students with Low Visual-Spatial Skills

Studies have demonstrated that visual-spatial skills correlate with student performance and success in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The ability to reason with spatial information is essential for conceptual subjects like chemistry, a deep understanding of which requires dealing with the invisible world of atoms and molecules and linking microscopic properties to macroscopic observables. The link between spatial ability and chemistry achievement is well-studied and documented. The extent to which various teaching tools can help students visualize abstract physicochemical concepts is an active area of research. Virtual reality (VR) can leverage the proximity effect and create immersive learning experiences for students struggling with spatial imagery. For this reason, many VR resources have been developed to teach chemistry, yet the number of studies exploring the potential of VR to enhance spatial ability and chemistry achievement has so far been limited. Here, we report on an exploratory study conducted at a large public institution to evaluate the effect of virtual reality on learning in chemistry students with low visual-spatial skills. Spatial ability was assessed using a visual-spatial pretest. Those students who failed the test were randomized into the VR intervention and control groups. While no statistically significant difference in class performance between these two groups was observed, our data showed some improvement in the median scores in the VR intervention group compared to the control. Future studies enrolling a higher number of participants would help to make more definitive conclusions about the effect of VR on students with low visual-spatial skills.