Qeios
September 29, 2024
Jonathan Nash
This paper explores several etymological, semantic, sociolinguistic, and methodological issues that have, in my opinion, impeded the progress of consciousness research and discourse; and I offer some suggestions that are hopefully worthy of consideration and further discussion. I review the historical and extant conflation of terms in the literature; a plethora of published definitions and...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 8, 2023
Jonathan Nash, Andrew B. Newberg
21 citations
This paper revisits the proposal for the classification of meditation methods which we introduced in our initial 2013 publication, "Toward a Universal Taxonomy and Definition of Meditation". At that time, we advanced the thesis that meditation methods could be effectively segregated into three orthogonal categories by integrating the taxonomic principle of functional essentialism and the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Frederick Travis, Jonathan Nash, Niyazi Parim et al.
Early research into meditation, including Transcendental Meditation (TM), relied exclusively on EEG to measure brain activity during meditation practice. Since the advent of neural imaging, MRI, and later fMRI, have dominated this field. Unfortunately, the use of this technology rests on the questionable assumption that lying down in a confining tube while exposed to very loud sounds would not...
Frontiers in Psychology
2019
Jonathan Nash, Andrew B. Newberg, Bhuvanesh Awasthi
correction
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00806.].
Frontiers in Psychology
2013
Jonathan Nash, Andrew B. Newberg
182 citations
One of the well-documented concerns confronting scholarly discourse about meditation is the plethora of semantic constructs and the lack of a unified definition and taxonomy. In recent years there have been several notable attempts to formulate new lexicons in order to define and categorize meditation methods. While these constructs have been useful and have encountered varying degrees of...