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Ilkka Pyysiäinen

2 papers in the library · publishing 1994-2006

Papers

Not-Self (Anattâ) and Mysticism

Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion January 1, 1994 Ilkka Pyysiäinen

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DOI: 10.33356/temenos.6055

Does meditation swamp working memory?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences December 1, 2006 Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Meditation is better understood as ritualized action that occupies working memory rather than as a technique for emptying the mind, a common assumption in religious studies. Boyer and Lienard's theory of ritualized action as 'swamping' working memory may explain meditation's effects without attributing experiential goals that practitioners do not actually hold.

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x06009472