DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.12
Deniz Erten
{"title":"Free Will in Sufism","authors":"Deniz Erten","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"Human beings have will, but is it free? According to Sufism, which finds its grounds in religious texts and dominantly the Quran, the body is a cage, and the spirit is like a bird in it. Therefore, free will has dimensions. Sufism suggests going beyond the limits of senses with an effort to know the self and thus become one with the Divine to reach real freedom. This article aims to explain consciousness in terms of Sufism and science.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":" 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139197598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.1
Larisa Ileana Casangiu
{"title":"Studying and Assuming Moral Values through Literature. A didactic approach involving educational coaching","authors":"Larisa Ileana Casangiu","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"488 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139204107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.9
I. Helland
{"title":"Quantum mechanics as a theory that is consistent with the existence of God","authors":"I. Helland","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"I sketch the foundation of quantum mechanics as it is presented in various books and articles. Then a new approach to quantum foundation is described, a foundation that relies on 4 simple postulates related to the mind of an observer or to the joint minds of a group of communicating observers. One of these postulates may appear to be strong, but it turns out to be more natural when it is placed in a religious setting. This assumes the existence of an omnipotent God. These arguments are further discussed, and they are shown also to give a foundation of Quantum Decision Theory.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"300 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139205515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.6
Mihaela Dragomir
{"title":"Somatization of Hell – How our belief system defines our health","authors":"Mihaela Dragomir","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"What if our spiritual beliefs make us a negative character? What if we hurt ourselves and our loved ones by clinging too tightly to what we believe? What if, at the end of life, when we meet God, He asks: \"How was Heaven\"? What if we are wrong? There are so many spiritual paths now, so much information, so much Knowledge to absorb, and so much fake knowledge to differentiate. Each time the inner barometer of discrimination gets overwhelmed, the current beliefs become stronger, even if they are flawed. The lack of mental and spiritual flexibility can slowly take the shape of ignorance and somatization. The physical body is the meeting point between the spiritual and the material and as a result, symptoms of confusion may occur in the physical body. This paper aims to emphasize the connection between spiritual beliefs, relationship with God, and somatoform disorders using a narrative review. By accepting the unacceptable and opening the belief system, one may be able to relieve the somatic symptoms and regain control of the body.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139208374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.3
T. Ciocan
{"title":"Ignorance is not a blessing: Aging exists! The Role of Religion, Spirituality, and Belief in the Comprehension and Acceptance of Aging","authors":"T. Ciocan","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Aging is an inevitable part of life. It brings forth a plethora of changes, both physical and emotional, that can pose several challenges for individuals. In this article, we will delve into the issues associated with aging, explore their impact on daily life, and provide insights on how to navigate through them gracefully. We all know that Aging is nothing more than a natural stage of life. \"Aging takes place in a cell, an organ, or the total organism with the passage of time. It is a process that goes on over the entire adult life span of any living thing.\" [1] Still, while speaking of it, it is mainly surrounded by positive narratives and pleasant thoughts - all of which were created not to highlight the quality and value of old age but to give all those who have not yet reached it a sugarcoated image. Things are entirely different for those approaching or already deep into this [final] stage of life. \"Old age [is] heavy clothes\" is one of the folk Romanian sayings accom-panying this stage – emphasizing the unwieldiness of this stage. The concept of positive Aging is constantly gaining attention in the literature as an approach to health and well-being that incorporates a range of factors in the lives of older adults. But, religion, through theological explanation, has a different approach to aging and approaching death. Let us see what the depths of religious thinking about aging and theological grounds embodied in religious faiths and practices, making specific behaviors conform to these beliefs. The possibility of controlling aging effects is so biased, as if you were trying to build a dam in the middle of the floods. That is why the conclusion of the study is not limited to the management of the effects of aging or to the recognition of the problems it faces and stipulates a method of approaching aging in advance as pre-vention.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139202152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.14
Corin Mihăilă
{"title":"Jesus and the New Creation: A New Testament Biblical Theological Perspective on Creation Care","authors":"Corin Mihăilă","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Creation is not what it was intended by God to be. It has been suffering the effects of the curse over humankind. Yet, God has not abandoned his plan for his creation to make it glorify him, but sent his Son into creation in order to redeem it. This article seeks to explain Jesus’ central role in inaugurating and consummating the renewal of rebellious creation. We see the first signs of redemption in Jesus’ victory over Satan in the wilderness temptation, in his authority over the rebellious nature, and supremely on the cross. His departure from earth meant that the second stage of consummation will follow later. Thus, Paul explains in what ways reconciliation of all things to God have an “already” dimension and a “not yet” one. Presently, redemption through Jesus’ death and resurrection is limited to spiritual salvation, but it anticipates the physical redemption of the human bodies and the material redemption of the natural world. At Jesus’ return, “all things will be made new,” meaning not a replacement of the first creation but a renewal of it. This biblical understanding of the new creation, that Jesus first inaugurated but will eventually consummate, shows that creation has value to God and therefore should have value to those who love God and their neighbor.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"12 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139207593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.13
Corin Mihăilă
{"title":"Creation, Sin, and Israel: An Old Testament Biblical Theological Perspective on Creation Care","authors":"Corin Mihăilă","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"Creation groans from humankind’s fall into sin and the curse placed on it, and from humankind’s mistreatment of it, contrary to what God envisioned when he brought the universe into existence. This article seeks to show that God intended a harmony in his creation between humans and nonhumans right from the beginning. Even when sin brough chaos into God’s good creation, God continued to work towards bringing creation to its intended purposes. Thus, God chose Israel and the Promised Land to do with them what he desired for the whole creation. When history repeated itself and Israel went into exile, God announced the renewal of creation. This plan that God has had all along for his creation betrays a particular value he attributes to it. It is only natural that we, as stewards of creation, be equally interested in the protection of God’s creation.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":" 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139207342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.2
Nachum Plonka, R. McCraty, Louise van der Westhuizen, Stephen David Edwards
{"title":"Global Consciousness Project 2.0: A First Look","authors":"Nachum Plonka, R. McCraty, Louise van der Westhuizen, Stephen David Edwards","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139199156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.11
Mihaela Dragomir
{"title":"Yoga's Divine Transformation: Restoring Faith in God – Case Study","authors":"Mihaela Dragomir","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This scientific article explores the profound influence of yoga on the restoration of faith in a higher power among individuals participating in a case study. Employing a semi-structured interview method, the study unfolds within the serene setting of a yoga retreat, featuring 11 participants aged 32 to 55. Central to this investigation is a single, pivotal question: \"How is your relationship with Divinity after you started practicing yoga?\" The majority of participants share a resounding sentiment that extends far beyond mere intellectualization. Their accounts unveil a profound transformation in which yoga not only facilitates a conceptual understanding but, more notably, enables a visceral experience of the divine presence. These revelations culminate in the unfoldment of true believers who firmly affirm the existence of a benevolent higher power, one that guards and loves them unconditionally. The article embarks on a comprehensive journey, unraveling the structure and main ideas that emerge from this case study. The study's unique focus on a single pivotal question provides valuable insights into how yoga, as a spiritual practice, transcends the realms of the physical and mental, fostering a direct and tangible connection with the divine.","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"65 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139207022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DialogoPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.15
T. Ciocan
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans","authors":"T. Ciocan","doi":"10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51917/dialogo.2023.10.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"This eighteen issue of DIALOGO [2023.10.1] is dedicated to the general purpose of our endeavor, i.e., building a valuable and non-utopic dialogue between all science domains and as many theologies and spiritualities as possible. At the same time, we wanted to bring to the attention of the participants of this session a topic of increasing importance for human society and its not-too-distant future: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans. Finally, DIALOGO collects several articles related to artificial intelligence, consciousness, and other research valuable for the general purpose. We begin our effort with the question, \"Is there any threat to human safety or our future existence, or is this lack only a fear of the unknown, otherwise unjustified (currently)?\"","PeriodicalId":42179,"journal":{"name":"Dialogo","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139199830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}