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2015
Mathieu Perrot
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In 1954, at the age of 55, Henri Michaux was a well-published writer and a seasoned traveller. As a young man in the 1930s and 1940s, the Belgian poet and painter had voyaged across East Asia, Central and South America, which resulted in a large portion of his oeuvre: well-known accounts, both real and imaginary, of his trips abroad, fictional ethnographies, and numerous volumes of poetry....
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2011
Evelyn Tribble, Nicholas Keene
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The philosopher Andy Clark has explored the relationship between cognition and environment through an extended meditation upon the predicament of the mole cricket. These creatures attract their mates through song, but their minute size renders them incapable of producing sounds loud enough to travel. However, they solve this problem environmentally: by creating underground burrows that greatly...
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2011
Evelyn Tribble, Nicholas Keene
Spatial environments constitute a key component of our cognitive ecologies, helping to configure the form of religious worship, directing the attention of worshipers and providing physical shape to the construction and transmission of religious forms. This chapter applies Extended Mind theory to aspects of early modern English religion within the context of the parish church in order to deepen...
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2010
Barnaby B. Barratt
If there is a sense in which the entire universe exists within the energetic composition of every human body, then there is a sense in which Lhe subtle energies of our embodiment, impaci ihe entire universe. This is a centra] aspect of the agenda of transpersonal psychology; although more aptly, we will refer to them in the plural, as psychologies, since they are a diverse grouping of...
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2002
Jill Marsden
In the opening of Civilization and its Discontents, Freud makes reference to a ‘peculiar feeling’ which many have identified as the true source of religious sentiments. It is a feeling that one might call ‘a sensation of “eternity”, a feeling of something limitless, unbounded – as it were, “oceanic”’ (PFL 12, 251). Freud suggests that the ‘oneness with the universe’ which constitutes the...
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1999
Raymond Tallis
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The biological (causal) and computational theories of consciousness have the common outcome of reducing mind to a set of input/output relations. In the biological model, the emphasis is on the causal links between perception and its external occasions — the objects of perception — and active peripherals such as muscles and glands. In the computer model, the emphasis is on computational...
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1996
Richard Eldridge
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Animism is the belief that human beings have souls, or, by extension, the belief that animals, plants or even rocks have souls; that is, that they are subjects of feeling or consciousness, or display intelligence, in ways that ensouled human beings do. This extended view is sometimes called animatism or panpsychism, in order to distinguish it from the more restricted view, though in common...
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1996
George Pattison
The language and the symbolism of nothingness, of non-being and of the void inevitably call to mind Asian traditions of religious thought and experience. Indeed, any attempt by the West to go it alone in formulating an adequate account of nothingness would be the height of provincialism. 1 On the contrary, the enterprise of thinking through the concept of nothingness in the context of Western...
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1995
Christopher Cherry
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I shall be tiresome and borrow the familiar (but useful) device of making a couple of preliminary remarks before launching into my topic proper. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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1995
Frank B. Dilley
This book 1 contains eleven of Professor Broad’s articles and lectures. All of them have been published before; but several of them were not easily accessible, and one, the lecture on ‘War Thoughts in Peace Time’, has long been out of print. The book is divided into three sections, (I) Psychical Research, (II) Religion, and (III) Politics. It would not be relevant here to comment on Section...
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1995
Robert K. Paterson
There are several important logical differences between the kinds of general argument we examined in the last chapter and the kinds of specific evidence for a life after death to which we must now turn. We shall shortly be focusing on: (1) near-death experiences; (2) apparitional experiences; (3) communications via mediums; and (4) putative reincarnation cases. Evidence of these empirical kinds...
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1995
David Lorimer
The near-death experience (NDE) is a challenging and even disturbing phenomenon: it calls into question the assumptions of a materialistic science and medicine which insists that mind is a by-product of brain function and that it cannot, therefore, conceivably survive the disintegration of the brain; it also impinges on the ecclesiastical territory of the afterlife — or at least of its...
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1995
Edward Moss
Dennett is an excellent communicator of complex ideas, and his book of some 500 pages provides a useful conspectus of the current state of cognitive science, including a number of areas of controversy. Many highly specialized disciplines are involved and Dennett rightly makes it a virtue that he has tried, ‘with unabashed eclecticism’, to build a coherent theory, looking across the whole field....
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1994
Robert P. Weller
While both the cases I have discussed so far involve Chinese religion, the general processes are neither necessarily Chinese nor necessarily religious. Under the right circumstances anywhere, meaning develops a life cycle of its own. Tumultuous times encourage a profusion of new and complex possibilities that elbow their way in among the old taken-for-granted ideas. Both the early God...
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1994
Michael Stoeber
Although constitutive of extremely diverse theological and philosophical developments, the Christian and Hindu mystic traditions we have examined in the preceding chapters exhibit an experiential typology that stresses an identification with the Divine that is achieved in the transformative processes associated with monistic mysticism. Theistic experiences and activities culminate from the...
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1992
Michael Stoeber
As we have seen in our introduction to mysticism and in Eckhart's theology, mystics claim in certain experiences to encounter a powerful consolatory force which significantly reduces or eliminates the negative force of evil. In such experience evil is often referred to as a non-reality, non-being or nothingness which no longer has power or influence upon the enlightened mystic. As R. C. Zaehner...
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1991
Paul Murray
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Basic lack of information concerning mysticism is perhaps one of the main reasons why Eliot’s mystical attitude, or his philosophy of mysticism, has not always been regarded by critics as fundamental to the inner composition of Four Quartets . The tendency in general is to imagine that a work of mystical literature — if it is really authentic — will be characterised by an intense...
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1989
Allan Gardner Lloyd-Smith
Before Freud proposed a theoretical basis for understanding the vagaries of human behaviour the realm of the unconscious, or the subconscious as it was often called, provided a mysterious territory between the conscious mind and the possibility of some further existence. In The Varieties of Religious Experience , in an attempt to understand the visionary state, William James described the...
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1989
Andrew N. Leak
Sartre’s theorisation of desire does not permit of a concept of perversion. All sexual attitudes, from algolagnia to zoophilia, are ultimately reducible to variations on the essential aim of sexual desire: the ‘perpetual attempt of an embodied consciousness to come to terms with the existence of others’.1 In L’Etre et le néant this aim is stated to be impossible a priori. In later works such as...
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1983
Sven Ove Ögren, Kjell Fuxé, Odd‐geir Berge et al.
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The present studies have shown that chronic antidepressant treatment with desipramine (DMI), imipramine (IMI) and zimelidine produced behavioral evidence for sub- and supersensitivity depending on 5-HT agonist dose and types of behavior examined. Thus, chronic treatment with all three drugs reduced head twitches induced by a high dose of the 5-HT agonist 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine...