the Japanese Buddhist thinker and great popularizer of Zen 禅 in the West, has been changing over the last decade.!e publication in 2015-21 of the four-volume Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki 1 marked a shift from the controversies of the past to a reexamination of his historical signi9cance.During the mid-twentieth century many people considered him a perfect conduit for Buddhist teachings,...
The aim of this paper is to investigate dialectic Darstellung (Representation) as a methodological form in Max Horkheimer’s philosophy of the 1930s, and to clarify its internal logic, with a view to reconstructing his theory of knowledge in a comprehensive manner. Based on a literature review of Horkheimer’s theory of knowledge, the paper identifies several underexamined issues. It argues that...
This paper provides a comprehensive examination of the history of dream research in three fields: psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The evolution of theories is described in terms of historical periods. The first period spans from Freud’s “Dream Interpretation” in 1900 to the 1950s. The second period extends from the discovery of REM sleep in the 1950s to around the 1990s....
I investigated individual differences in the frequency of lucid dreams experienced by university students and related factors. In Study 1, approximately 700 university students were surveyed regarding lucid dreams, nightmares, the frequency of sensory experiences in dreams, vividness and control of imagery, fantasy proneness, and nightmare distress. Results indicated that the frequency of lucid...
Dreams have been considered clinically significant. Research on dreams can be broadly classified into case and survey studies. This study focuses on survey studies on dreams in clinical psychology in Japan, taking a general view of them. It also focuses on the heterogeneity of images, which is one perspective on perceiving images, and discusses the significance of examining the heterogeneity of...
Manvir Singh's Shamanism: The Timeless Religion blends vivid ethnography, global exploration, and theoretical debate to argue that shamanism is a persistent human tendency
Ego Unification Therapy (EUT) was developed by Ms. Kataoka and has been successfully used for dissociative disorders and PTSD for the past 20 years, but it is only known to some clinicians in Japan.In the original ego integration therapy, the therapist instantly puts the client into an altered state of consciousness, then returns to the traumatic scene from childhood, passes the pain there to...
Sprit possession is a mysterious phenomenon that confronts the modern perception of human as a set of one mind and one body.Anthropologists, along with researchers from other disciplines, have long argued its nature and proposed various theories relegating it to, for example, a cultural expression of mental afflictions, a form of resistance by marginalized groups within the society, or...
Henry Corbin was among those spiritual philosophers of the contemporary world who deserve novel and serious investigations, particularly in the realm of comparative 1 philosophy (and mysticism) with a phenomenological-hermeneutic vein serving as a connective bridge between the contemporary western philosophy (in the continental Europe) and the oriental philosophy (in Iran and in the Islamic...
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