A sensory engagement with the surroundings lies at the heart of awareness. Mindfulness practices cultivate such awareness, where the physical environment is a significant feature. However, the synergy between mindfulness practices and the physical environment has received little scholarly attention. This study focuses on the “retreat experience” to explore how mindfulness practitioners perceive...
This paper examines the impact of psychical research on the development of wireless technology as well as the influence of wireless on scientific interpretations of psychic phenomena. The invention of wireless was originally based on the notion that an invisible yet material ether permeated the universe, and this theory was employed to explain sensory perception as well as the transmission of...
In this paper I address the role that embodiment, embodied consciousness and what can be termed “extradiscursive” experiences such as body memory and ekstasis as a form of ecstatic experience assume in understanding the body-self of mature dancers. I argue that the body-self of the dancer becomes increasingly intersubjective in maturity through her/his bodily practice, and that this can be...