Psychoanalysis Self and Context
March 13, 2018
Shoshana Ringel
1 citation
This article presents the psychoanalytic treatment of dissociative anxiety, incorporating a mindfulness-based, meditative process. This contemplative approach includes moment-to-moment awareness, the investigation of embodied and affective states, and a view of subjectivity as fluid and comprised of transitory and changing subjective states. The author addresses shared elements between...
Mindfulness
March 11, 2018
William van Gordon, Edo Shonin, Thomas J. Dunn et al.
38 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are life transformational events that are increasingly being subjected to empirical research. However, to date, no study has investigated the phenomenon of a meditation-induced near-death experience (MI-NDE) that is referred to in ancient Buddhist texts. Given that some advanced Buddhist meditators can induce NDEs at a pre-planned point in time, the MI-NDE may make...
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
March 6, 2018
Dalia Chams
In trendy yoga studios, a new type of Sufism practice is flourishing in Egypt, that we can call New Age Sufism. It’s merging traditional Sufi practices as ḏikr, with Zen meditation and yoga breathing techniques. People who attend this kind of sessions are more or less highly ranked; they are looking for another way to reach serenity and inner peace, to avoid post-revolution stress.This paper...
Routledge eBooks
February 19, 2018
Graham Lock, Gary S. Linebarger
Like the text looked at in the last unit, this text was originally written in Chinese by a Chinese monk, rather than being translated from an Indian or Central Asian language. The Essentials for Practicing Calming-and-Insight and Chan Meditation (修習止觀坐禪法要 xiūxí zhǐguān chánfǎ yào ; T46.1915) was composed by the monk Zhìyǐ (智顗; 538–597 ce ) also called Zhìzhě (智者) ‘Wise One’, who is considered...
Clinical Psychology Review
February 2018
Katy Tapper
Mindfulness meditation has a long tradition of being used to manage cravings. This paper reviews 30 experimental studies that have examined the effects of different types of mindfulness practice on cravings for food, cigarettes and alcohol. The findings are interpreted in light of relevant theories of craving. The studies show most support for the elaborated intrusion theory of desire and...
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
February 1, 2018
Erik Davis
4 citations
In 1964, Timothy Leary and a few colleagues published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual for “tripping” explicitly based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the core of the Tibetan materials lies the concept of the bardo, the “in between” realm of the afterlife. While acknowledging the problematic nature of Leary’s radical appropriation, this essay argues that his application of these...
Numen
January 30, 2018
Roberto Serafim Simões
1 citation
O período antigo do ioga emerge em meio a uma sociedade indiana estratificada e influenciado por religiões como o samkhya e o hinduísmo bramânico, sistematizando-se como um dársana ortodoxo hinduísta por meio da escritura antiga Ioga Sutras (IS) alguns séculos antes de era cristã. O IS explica tanto as causas do sofrimento humano quanto a promessa de uma boa vida iogue, baseando-se na teoria...
Numen
January 30, 2018
Catón Eduardo Carini
El presente artículo se centra en indagar en la historia de la organización budista internacional Vipassana Meditation. Primero, realiza un recorrido por el desarrollo del budismo en Asia, haciendo hincapié en su afincamiento en Birmania. Luego, explora las trayectorias vitales de los líderes religiosos que formaron la mencionada organización y analiza los principales rasgos de la cosmovisión...
Numen
January 30, 2018
Otávio Augusto Vieira
O presente artigo apresenta a meditação vipassana, também conhecida como meditação do insight ou analítica, como ensinada incialmente por Sidarta Gautama e transmitida pela tradição de S.N.Goenka. As técnicas de meditação da atenção plena (anapana-sati), analítica (vipassana-sati) e do amor compassivo (metta), assim como a filosofia prática de Buda são transmitidas durante o retiro de silêncio...
Current objectives of postgraduate American studies
January 14, 2018
Stefan Benz
This article examines the epistemological concerns of Michael McClure’s poem “Double Moire for Francis Crick” (2010). Beyond showcasing McClure’s persistent interest in the natural sciences as well as in the Chinese and Japanese mystical traditions, this poem lyrically appropriates the physical phenomenon of the moiré effect and thereby exemplifies how a cooperation between these different...