TheScientificWorldJournal
March 27, 2012
Søren Ventegodt, Maximilian Kromann, Niels Jørgen Andersen et al.
The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self-repression resulting in poor quality of life,...
TheScientificWorldJournal
March 27, 2012
Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick
This paper addresses (in a philosophical way) the complex and enigmatic interface between matter, life, and consciousness in modern medical science. The problem today in understanding living matter is not at the molecular level, but at the macro level where all molecular activities in the individual cell are coordinated, and especially at a higher level, where the activities of all the...
TheScientificWorldJournal
July 13, 2008
Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Isack Kandel et al.
The human brain is probably the most complicated single structure in the biological universe. The cerebral cortex that is traditionally connected with consciousness is extremely complex. The brain contains approximately 1,000,000 km of nerve fibers, indicating its enormous complexity and which makes it difficult for scientists to reveal the function of the brain. In this paper, we propose a new...
TheScientificWorldJournal
December 10, 2007
Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Søren Ventegodt, Isack Kandel
The structure of human consciousness is thought to be closely connected to the structure of cerebral cortex. One of the most appreciated concepts in this regard is the Szanthagothei model of a modular building of neo-cortex. The modules are believed to organize brain activity pretty much like a computer. We looked at examples in the literature and argue that there is no significant evidence...
TheScientificWorldJournal
2007
Una D. Mccann, George A. Ricaurte
52 citations
Abuse of stimulant drugs invariably leads to a disruption in sleep-wake patterns by virtue of the arousing and sleep-preventing effects of these drugs. Certain stimulants, such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), may also have the potential to produce persistent alterations in circadian regulation and sleep because they can be neurotoxic toward brain monoaminergic neurons involved in...
TheScientificWorldJournal
November 16, 2006
Vinod D. Deshmukh
Dhyana-Yoga is a Sanskrit word for the ancient discipline of meditation, as a means to Samadhi or enlightenment. Samadhi is a self-absorptive, adaptive state with realization of one's being in harmony with reality. It is unitive, undifferentiated, reality-consciousness, an essential being, which can only be experienced by spontaneous intuition and self-understanding. Modern neuroscience can...
TheScientificWorldJournal
November 14, 2006
Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Trine Flensborg-Madsen et al.
Deep quantum chemistry is a theory of deeply structured quantum fields carrying the biological information of the cell, making it able to remember, intend, represent the inner and outer world for comparison, understand what it "sees", and make choices on its structure, form, behavior and division. We suggest that deep quantum chemistry gives the cell consciousness and all the qualities and...
TheScientificWorldJournal
November 14, 2006
Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Trine Flensborg-Madsen et al.
In this paper we look at the rational and the emotional interpretation of reality in the human brain and being, and discuss the representation of the brain-mind (ego), the body-mind (Id), and the outer world in the human wholeness (the I or "soul"). Based on this we discuss a number of factors including the coherence between perception, attention and consciousness, and the relation between...
TheScientificWorldJournal
July 6, 2006
Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Maj Lyck Nielsen et al.
For almost a decade, we have experimented with supporting the philosophical development of severely ill patients to induce recovery and spontaneous healing. Recently, we have observed a new pattern of extremely rapid, spontaneous healing that apparently can facilitate even the spontaneous remission of cancer and the spontaneous recovery of mental diseases like schizophrenia and borderline...
TheScientificWorldJournal
September 28, 2005
Diana Coholic
This paper discusses an exploratory study that investigated the helpfulness of spiritually influenced group work with eight adult women who shared a history of substance abuse. The overall purpose of the group was to help participants develop their self-awareness and self-esteem. The group, which was contextualized in transpersonal theory, was organized around the following themes and...
TheScientificWorldJournal
June 1, 2005
Liora Birnbaum
This paper presents adolescent aggression as mediated by the level of differentiation of self. No research has directly addressed Bowen's notion that level of differentiation impacts child functioning including aggression. Level of differentiation is discussed in conjunction with social, gender and cultural norms as manifested in aggressive behavior. Female adolescent aggression is described as...
TheScientificWorldJournal
May 1, 2005
Søren Ventegodt, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Niels Jørgen Andersen et al.
A theoretical framework of existential coherence is presented, explaining how health, quality of life (QOL), and the ability to function were originally created and developed to rehabilitate human life from an existential perspective. The theory is inspired by the work of Aaron Antonovsky and explains our surprising recent empirical findings -- that QOL, health, and ability primarily are...
TheScientificWorldJournal
May 26, 2004
Clinical holistic medicine: tools for a medical science based on consciousness.
TheScientificWorldJournal
March 18, 2004
Liora Birnbaum, Aiton Birnbaum
Spiritual concerns are highly relevant, but often ignored, in psychotherapy in general and in suicide in particular. This article presents Internet data and clinical case material bearing on the topic, and describes an innovative therapeutic intervention administered in a group-workshop format with suicide survivors and mental health professionals. The technique incorporates relaxation and...
TheScientificWorldJournal
December 1, 2003
S. Ventegodt,, N. Andersen, J. Merrick
In this article we look at the brain’s structure and function from a philosophical perspective. Although the brain at micro-level, with its trillions of ultra-thin nerve fibers, is one of the most complicated structures in the known universe, you can still grasp its composition if you go up to the level of the cell. How this structure functions is not quite clear. You can understand its...
TheScientificWorldJournal
November 13, 2003
Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick
The field of holistic medicine is in need of a scientific approach. We need holistic medicine--and we even need it to be spiritual to include the depths of human existence--but we need it to be a little less "cosmic" in order to encompass the whole human being. Many important research questions and challenges, empirical as well as theoretical, demand the attention from medical researchers. Like...
TheScientificWorldJournal
2003
Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick
65 citations
This study was performed on a representative sample of the Danish population in order to investigate the connection to the use of psychoactive drugs and quality of life (QOL) by way of a questionnaire-based survey. The questionnaire was mailed in February 1993 to 2,460 persons aged between 18 and 88, randomly selected from the CPR (Danish Central Register), and 7,222 persons from the Copenhagen...