SOCIALNO-ECOLOGICHESKIE TECHNOLOGII
2018
A.Yu. Mironov, A.V. Sinin, V.B. Dorokhov
In research of lucid dreams (LD), an altered state of consciousness that occurs during the REM sleep stage, the task of LD identification is normally solved with a unidirectional communication method. An experimental subject, while sleeping, signals about his/hers state by performing a series of eye movements. We have developed a new alternative method that allows for bidirectional information...
Annals of Palliative Medicine
2018
Joachim Keppler
Owing to the increasing importance of clinical hypnosis in pain therapy and palliative care, there is a growing interest in uncovering the mechanism underlying hypnotic analgesia. The neurophysiological findings suggest that the hypnotic state is associated with an altered operating mode of the brain that is clearly different from the normal operating mode. While in the normal operating mode a...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
2018
David E Nichols
68 citations
The pineal gland has a romantic history, from pharaonic Egypt, where it was equated with the eye of Horus, through various religious traditions, where it was considered the seat of the soul, the third eye, etc. Recent incarnations of these notions have suggested that N,N-dimethyltryptamine is secreted by the pineal gland at birth, during dreaming, and at near death to produce out of body...
NeuroImage: Clinical
2018
Felix Mueller, Francesco Musso, Markus K. London et al.
65 citations
Background: Subanesthetic dosages of the NMDAR antagonist, S-Ketamine, can cause changes in behavior in healthy subjects, which are similar to the state acute psychosis and are relevant in translational schizophrenia research. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can be used for non-hypothesis-driven analysis of brain connectivity. The correlation between clinical behavioral scores and...
Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine
December 30, 2017
BR Divya, Hr Nagendra, K Shiva Kumar et al.
Background: The subtle energies of sacred fire rituals performed in a scientific systematic way are very supportive for the human system at physical, psychological and spiritual levels. The sacred fire rituals help in tuning the consciousness of the participants to merge with the Supreme consciousness. Aims & Objectives: To explore the effect of Homas in offering epochs of sustained synchronous...
Approaches
December 22, 2017
Evangelia Papanikolaou, B. Beck
1 citation
We are very proud to launch this special issue of Approaches entitled ‘Guided Imagery and Music: Contemporary European perspectives and developments’. With its body of articles, we hope to inspire practitioners, researchers and educators from many fields: Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) therapists, music therapists as well as professionals from other health professions. But, why a special issue...
December 20, 2017
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, C. Crouch
Theological approaches to religious experience attribute the same if not a higher degree of reality to it as to everyday experience1. In this, theology differs from philosophy, for which the existence of religious experience remains subject to debate. Phenomenology’s “legitimization” of religious experience as a subject matter of philosophical research goes back to the larger phenomenological...
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
December 15, 2017
William H. Crocker
In this article I recount the stories of various shamans I have worked with throughout many decades of fieldwork among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (Eastern Timbira) of central Maranhão state, Brazil. Along with their narratives, I provide ethnographic context in order to address the following questions: (1) Who is a shaman? (2) What is shamanism? Is shamanism better understood (3) as a process or a...
CRC Press eBooks
December 6, 2017
Danko Dimchev Georgiev
Quantum physics provides a good candidate for a mathematical entity, namely, the quantum state vector in the Hilbert space. The causal potency problem originates from determinism: In classical physical theories there are fundamental constituents entering in the mathematical description of the physical laws that govern deterministically the dynamics of physical systems. Since only these...
Revista VIS Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte
December 2, 2017
Matheus Moura Silva
Este artigo descreve parte da investigação de doutoramento desenvolvida no PPGACV-FAV-UFG, na linha de pesquisa Poéticas Visuais e Processos Criativos. A linha de pesquisa possui como característica a criação plástica e desenvolvimento de saber teórico, em formato tradicional de tese. O que acaba por gerar uma tese-criação calcada na Arts Based Research, por esta ser uma das metodologias...