PSYCHOLOGIA
1990
Michael C. Dillbeck
5 citations
The concepts of self in the Vedic psychology of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and in the Bhagavad-Gita are fundamentally the same.Both describe two aspects of self, the limited individual self (ego) and its universal basis in a field of transcendental or pure consciousness ("Self").This transcendental self, as noted by Darbar (1989), can be experienced subjectively but not directly objectively...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1989
Tadashi Chihara
4 citations
A series of experiments was performed to clarify the unique time structure in Zen.As a result, subjective time became longer during Zazen, and those factors for underestimation of time were provided in terms of all conditions, including environmental, physiological and subjective.This tendency toward underestimation of time during Zazen appears to realize a relation between Muga (Non-Ego) and...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1989
U Darbar
Bhagavad-Gita's model of the self is presented with a view to exploring it's testability.Bhagavad-Gita presents a logically consistent and precisely defined conceptualization of the self with the potential of expanding current psychological theories of the self.However this conception of the self is outside the range of the hypothetico-deductive approach.It would be unscientific to not...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1985
Michael Delmonte, Vincent Kenny
9 citations
This review seeks to address the usefulness of meditation as a therapeutic intervention in the framework of conceptual models of the meditation experience.It is concluded that meditation practice may be associated with the acquisition of some useful skills (e.g., focussed attention), that practice may be physiologically relaxing, that meditation may enhance hypnotic induction and decrease...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1985
Ken'ichi Kishimoto
As anthropological psychotherapy (Binswanger, Frankl and Boss) is based on existential philosophy, this self-awakening psychotherapy is based on Buddhistic thought.I have comprehended the human being from five dimensions; physical, psychological, natural, social and spiritual.Although I have practised the therapy of the former four objective therapy for neurosis, the last spiritual therapy is...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1984
William C. Compton
A critique is given of Sallis's article "meditation and self-actualization: a theoretical comparison".The main argument of the critique is that Sallis failed to differentiate between the various levels of meditation practice in his article.This led him to postulate apparently contradictory goals for meditation.It is suggested that the understanding of linguistic formulations of meditation is...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1983
Michael C. Dillbeck
6 citations
This paper addresses the empirical testability of the Vedic psychological theory found in the Bhagavad-Gita.It is suggested that research on a meditation practice which is consistent with the descriptions of the Bhagavad-Gita may be used to assess the theory's testability.Research on the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program is reviewed as evidence relating to the following...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1976
Sunnan K. Kubose
25 citations
The present study was concerned with investigating the description, production, and utilization aspects of meditation.It was found that the meditative state of consciousness could be described by a concentration which, with practice, increasingly minimized the intrusion of distracting thoughts; and relative to a control group, when thoughts did occur, they tended to be categorized as...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1976
John P. Radford
Concepts deriving from Zen Buddhism have come to form part of popular Western culture during the last twenty years or so.These concepts are often vague and misleading.This paper suggests that Zen can be usefully characterized as a set of techniques designed to bring about specific changes in behaviour and experience.This is also often held to be one of the aims of psychology.As yet,...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1975
Paul F. Grim
Discusses the experience of learning autogenic training and progressive relaxation.On occasions when the author was able to reach a state of near absolute relaxation, he experimented with desensitization therapy, and tried to hold an image completely still.To the extent that this was successful, clarity and objectivity of perception occurred which supports the James-Lange theory of the...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1974
Robert A. C. Stewart
2 citations
Systems for promoting self-realization have come both from the West and the East.Two basically Eastern systems of "therapy," in the Zen tradition and the Hindu Yoga meditative tradition, are now attracting substantial interest in the West.There is now substantial Western concern to evaluate their effectiveness in the way that many other psychotherapeutic traditions have been examined.In...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1974
Albin R. Gilbert
1 citation
Western sage psychologists, such as the Murphys (1968), have long felt the need to inform themselves and their confn!res on Asian psychology, now looming so large on the western horizon, Like western psychology, Asian psychology developed a scientific methodology, first, by observing mind phenomena, called dharmas, introspectively.Originally, the Hindus turned to introspection for other than...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1964
Arthur H. Rogers
BLrlliChristianity must in the same way leave behind the Virgin Birth, the divinity of Christ, the existence or non-existence of God.These things may and should all be kept as symbols, not of ineffable mysteries, but of our own virginity, our own divinity, our own existence, and our own non-existence.Zen is the poetry of life, and all poetry is the same, all poetry is different.The joy at the...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1962
Rudolf Holzinger
4 citations
In a Swiss laboratory in 1943 an accidental discovery was made by a Swiss chemist.Dr. Hofmann, which was to bring a new approach to psychotherapy.This treatment which the author calls analytical and integrative therapy is based essentially on the trigger effects of the substance discovered which was named d-Iysergic acid diethylamide, or in short LSD-25.It is very difficult to describe the...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1962
G. R. Jordan, Jr.
In the March 1961 issue of Psychologia Dr. Wilson Van Dusen presented LSD as a new means of arriving at satori, the Zen experience of sudden enlightenment. He said that the use of LSD is a faster method than years of meditation and suggested that the drug "could perhaps be used in a monastery in conjunction with conventional Zen practices to facilitate the student's development. ... " (1). From...