36 papers in the library · 39 citations · publishing 1983-2018
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1994 Michael Stoeber
The theo-monistic experience explains the relationship between monistic and theistic mystical experiences. Considered in terms of personal and spiritual transformative processes, the two different experiences are effectively bridged together. The monistic experience finds its culmination and meaning in elements associated with theistic conceptions; so the monistic experience is legitimately and...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1991 Paul Murray 1 citation
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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1991 Ajit Narayanan
By ‘Computational Philosophy of Mind’ we mean the overlap area between ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and philosophy of mind. This overlap area is attracting increasing interest from a number of philosophers and AI researchers. The origins of the overlap area can be traced back to Turing’s seminal paper in 1950, 1 and to five of the nine objections that Turing himself raised to his own...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1988 Atsuko Hirai 1 citation
In non-Marxist scholarship in both Japan and the West, Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945) enjoys the reputation of being the most important philosopher of modern Japan as well as the most ‘Oriental’ and original one. He earned this renown by teaching philosophy at Kyoto Imperial University (1910–28), intensely practising Zen meditation and writing scores of treatises with concepts that did not always...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1983 Sven Ove Ögren, Kjell Fuxé, Odd‐geir Berge et al. 11 citations
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...