ANU Open Research
2019
Ross Durward Wickham
1 citation
Recognising causal links between religious practices and socio-political structures, it is argued that the transition to settled life during the Neolithic was the product of social and political changes brought about by the institutionalisation and manipulation of ideology. These were employed by ambitious, influential individuals using sedentism as a strategy to achieve social control and the...
ANU Open Research
2018
Tjanara Goreng Goreng
3 citations
Robert Kegan says that sacred leadership is a particular order of consciousness that applies to people who have navigated their emotional stages of development to become individuals who go beyond the ego to become ‘sacred’ in their thinking and being. They are leaders who motivate and inspire others to follow them. In Aboriginal communities in Australia, Elders have always been considered...
ANU Open Research
2018
Alma K. Barner
As a child, I often imagined that I was a space astronaut. Today I imagined what I could have for lunch and what I could wear for a concert. Pilots imagine performing water landings in an emergency. We might imagine full grown trees, while planting tree seeds. We use imagination to plan daily activities, prepare for important events, evaluate past choices and actions, predict other people’s...
ANU Open Research
2018
Monique Wilson
Depressive and anxiety symptoms can be associated with high levels of impairment and distress. Thus, it is important to understand the processes that contribute to the exacerbation and alleviation of affective symptoms. Various factors have been implicated, including individuals’ tendencies towards rumination and mindfulness, and the psychological processes of stress and sleep disturbance....
ANU Open Research
2011
Lauren Clare Wood
1 citation
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a class-based manualised program designed to treat recurrent depression and prevent relapse. MBCT has been found to be effective for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with three or more previous episodes of depression. While research estimates that 50 - 75% of individuals with depression also experience anxiety, the role of anxiety in the...
ANU Open Research
1995
My Thien
3 citations
This study aims to provide an overview of Vietnamese supernaturalism in the Mekong delta through an examination of four different realms. They are: the village communal house, or dình., the Buddhist-Daoist private temple, or chùa, mediumistic practices, and the practice of self-cultivation, among whose outstanding proponents were the Daoists (Ông Dao). These four realms '' permeated with two...
ANU Open Research
1990
Kathryn Garven
The thesis Is essentially an attempt to establish a comprehensive theory of consciousness, being and knowable reality that Is fully consistent both with all the analytic arguments that can be brought to bear In formulating such a theory and with the whole of the relevant scientific and other empirical evidence. It Is considered that such a theory would very probably be an extension of the...
ANU Open Research
1990
Frances Gray
For human beings, consciousness is that which determines and constitutes the content, order and form of all of our experience. It is consciousness which generates our awareness as our own. Both experience and awareness provide the ontological basis to all that is possible for us. The conscious experience that we have - our thoughts, our feelings, our being aware of our existence in the world...