Journal of Near-Death Studies
2011
Michael Nahm
2 citations
In recent decades, the Tibetan Book of the Dead (TBD) has attracted much attention from Westerners interested in Eastern spirituality and has been discussed in the literature on dying and near-death experiences. However, the history of the TBD has practically been ignored in that literature up to now. This history has been elaborated in detail by Tibetologist Bryan Cuevas (2003). To bring this...
Philosophy East and West
2011
Jay L. Garfield
13 citations
Hey, Buddha! Don’t Think! Just Act!—A Response to Bronwyn Finnigan Jay L. Garfield The Problem: How a Buddhist can Conceptualize a Buddha’s Enlightened Action In the course of a careful and astute discussion of the difficulties facing a Buddhist account of the moral agency of a buddha, Bronwyn Finnigan develops a challenging critique of a proposal I made in a recent article (Garfield 2006)....
Cognitive Processing
December 16, 2009
B Rael Cahn, Arnaud Delorme, John Polich
Long-term Vipassana meditators sat in meditation vs. a control rest (mind-wandering) state for 21 min in a counterbalanced design with spontaneous EEG recorded. Meditation state dynamics were measured with spectral decomposition of the last 6 min of the eyes-closed silent meditation compared to control state. Meditation was associated with a decrease in frontal delta (1-4 Hz) power, especially...
Taehan Kanho Hakhoe chi
October 1, 2005
Haeng-Mi Son, Joo-Hyun Kim, Jong-Hoon Kim
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of recovery from disease in the patients doing a kind of Buddhist meditation, and to develop a grounded theory about meditation. Method: Data was collected by an in-depth interview using tape-recordings from sixteen participants doing meditation. The data was analyzed using the grounded theory method proposed by Strauss and...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2001
Todd Murphy, San Francisco, S Blackmore et al.
22 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) in Thailand do not demonstrate the episodes most noted in those collected in the West, but they do show con sistent features. I argue that these features, including harbingers of death, visions of hell, the Lord of the underworld, and the benefits of making dona tions to Buddhist monks and temples, can be understood within the framework of beliefs and customs...
1996
Manuel A. Vásquez
Problem. Alternative New Age holistic health therapies can be physically and spiritually dangerous for Seventh-day Adventist Christians because these therapies are based on nonbiblical worldview philosophies, universal energy forces, astrology, the occult, and Eastern mysticism. Method. Primary and secondary New Age holistic health sources, as well as the Bible, the writings of Ellen G. White...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
May 1, 1995
B Ramamurthi
Present day neurophysiology stops with attributing thinking processes as the highest level of function of the brain. It has been common knowledge to oriental thinkers for many centuries, that there are many further states of the human mind, culminating in the state of thoughtless awareness; the fourth state of consciousness. This state must have a physiological basis. The complicated structure...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
April 1, 1987
M DelMonte
Meditation experiences are viewed from a constructivist perspective. Concentrative and mindfulness approaches are compared. It is concluded that, although these meditative techniques differ (and often are used in conjunction), they both yield insight into how the mind processes experience at both the preverbal and verbal levels.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
September 1, 1974
G K Mills, K Campbell
Gellhorn and Kiely's attempt to generate a neurophysiological theory which accounts for the psychophysiological states produced during Zen and Yoga meditation is criticized because it: a) ignores fundamental differences within and between the various meditations; b) fails to consider certain important published evidence on Yoga meditation; and c) provides an ambiguous interpretation of...
Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine
October 22, 2026
Silva Shehan, Udayangani Ramadasa, Saroj Jayasinghe
Advances in biomedical technology have transformed dying into a prolonged, technological process in which clinical attention can drift from the person to physiological parameters. This narrative review argues that phenomenology offers an essential ethical corrective by foregrounding the lived experience of dying and complementing procedural bioethics, with particular attention to South Asia,...