on the Dialogue between Science and Theology DIALOGO - June 2022 Multidisciplinary Open Access JOURNAL www.dialogo-conf.com/dialogo-journal/ SECTION 1 SECTION 1 - 34 - - 34 - SECTION 1 SECTION 1 RESHAPING [YOUR] REALITY. [1] eISSN: 2393-1744, cdISSN: 2392-9928 printISSN: 2457-9297, ISSN-L 2392-9928 DIALOGO JOURNAL 8 : 2 (2022) 34 - 43 ABSTRACT Just as there are people who are born with certain sensory limits or altered sensitivity (+/-) and perceive the outside world differently, so there are several ‘stimuli’ that alter our subjective perception (+/-) of reality (re)giving a different/distorted image of it, the religious faith being one of those. This role is played, for example, by a strong emotional motivation: when someone who strongly believes that he resists fire [or mentally ignores this factor] to save his/her child becomes unaffected by fire in an extreme situation of ambition and elimination of logical reasons for self-preservation; or someone religiously strongly motivated on thinking that he is ‘divinely sent’ to identify and eliminate opponents of divine forces, will attempt all possible steps (violence, terrorism, genocide) to stop these factors, regardless of human ‘reality’ put into play. Therefore, we initiate a series of articles focusing on the dialogue between several domains for the same purpose: What are the factors involved in altering the image of reality, how is a mentally constructed the image of reality in the stages of psychic development, what are the ‘stimuli’ that can distort that image and who can ‘manipulate’ them, but also who can be the ‘correctors’ of these image distortions. ARTICLE INFO CC BY-NC-SA Article history: Received 02 March 2022 Received in revised form 23 April Accepted 28 April 2022 Available online 30 June 2022 doi: 10.51917/dialogo.2022.8.2.2 Keywords: religiousness; neurology; amygdala; mindfulness; brain; meditation; spiritual; psychology; awareness; core beliefs; solipsism; subjectivism; perception; Session 1. General panel: HEALTH A cognitive perspective of how religion changes the life-view with special consideration to traumatic events DIALOGO Multidisciplinary Open Access JOURNAL Available online at www.dialogo-conf.com/dialogo-journal/ Citation: Ciocan, Cosmin-Tudor, Any Docu Axelerad. ”Reshaping [Your] Reality. [1] A cognitive perspective of how religion changes the life-view with special consideration to traumatic events.” DIALOGO, ISSN: 2393-1744, vol.8, issue 2 (June 2022): pp. 34-43. DOI: 10.51917/dialogo.2022.8.2.2 Dialogo by RCDST is licensed under Creative Commons Attribu- tion-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License Cosmin-Tudor CIOCAN, Ph.D. Fr. Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology, ‘Ovidius’ University of Constanța, ROMANIA ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8801-7426 I. Introduction: on Subjective Perception It is certain so far that there is no objective perception of reality and also that everything we come to experience in life afects the way we imagine reality. This doesn’t imply that there is no objective reality, but what we perceive, the inner image we create on reality is irrefutably subjective. It is acknowledged that the perceived reality of a media presentation may infuence mental processes, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, proportionately we do the same by these mental processes in acquiring data from perceived reality.[1] As much as a mind can be improved with various eforts [meditation, augmentation, chemicals, training, etc.], there are still certain elements that trick it into changing its perception of reality. Even if it’s a small - 34 - Any DOCU AXELERAD, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University Constanta Constanta County Clinical Emergency Hospital Constanta, ROMANIA ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8525-3554 SECTION 1