Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1998
Barbara L. Easterlin, Etzel Cardeña
This study compared perceived stress and cognitive and emotional differences between two groups of Buddhist mindfulness meditators. Nineteen beginning and twenty-four advanced meditators carried electronic pagers for five days and responded to daily random signals by completing an Experience Sampling form (ESF) containing items related to the dependent variables. As compared with beginners,...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
June 1, 1998
A Ogata, T Miyakawa
Two hundred thirty-four epileptic patients were examined for ictus-related religious experiences. Of the 234 cases, three (1.3%) were found to have had such religious experiences. All three cases had temporal lobe epilepsy with post-ictal psychosis, while one exhibited a simple partial seizure. At the same time, interictal experiences with hyperreligiosity were recognized in all three cases....
December 4, 1997
9 citations
Abstract This book is the sequel to Robert Forman’s well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the “constructivist” school of mysticism in particular,...
Eckhart Review
April 1, 1997
Reza Shah‐kazemi
4 citations
I would like begin this talk by stressing the orthodoxy was strictly observed and prescribed by Eckhart, Shankara and Ibn Arabi. This needs be stressed at the outset since so many of their pronouncements go beyond the boundaries of religion narrowly-conceived, and thus have been taken by some as pretexts for abandoning formal religion in the name of a supra-religious mystical essence. My...
Numen
1997
Todd Gibson
AbstractHistorical treatments of the shaman have often been crippled by dubious and untestable assumptions on the nature of shamanic religion. Anthropological investigations in their turn have seldom dealt with historical issues in any depth. The first part of this contribution attempts to point out the advantages and dangers involved in applying an anthropological perspective to historical...
Mortality
1997
Paul Badham
38 citations
Christian belief in a future life was historically based on theistic religious experience. Today Near Death Experiences are more often cited. Exceptional reports of NDEs go back to the dawn of history but modern medicine has democratised them. Accounts from St. Paul, St. John of the Cross, and from Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism are described and compared with a large survey of contemporary...
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
August 1, 1996
S Nagatomo, G Leisman
8 citations
This paper addresses a need to re-examine the mind-body dualism established since Descartes. Descartes' dualism has been regarded by modern philosophers as an extremely insufficient solution to the problem of mind and body, from which is derived a long opposition in modern epistomology between idealism and empiricism. This dualism, bifurcating the region of spirit and matter, and the...
Biblioteca de la Escuela Argentina de Tantra
April 19, 1996
Oscar R. Gómez
The Certified Tantra® Course, divided into three modules, begins on Fridays at 6:00 PM and concludes on Sundays at 8:00 PM. Students acquire all the tools of tantra practice and a series of exercises to be performed over the following 15 days. At the end of this period, a follow-up meeting is held to monitor progress and provide a final set of exercises to maximize the benefits of the practice....
International Journal of Lexicography
March 1, 1996
Rainer Bischoff
An explanation of the meaning of the word Vipassanā in Theravāda Buddhism with reference to the entry of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series. The entry is not quite precise and could be corrected easily. Some new citations are also suggested, and an improved definition is proposed.
ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
1996
Risa Kaparo
This article describes how to extend somatic awareness in new directions, through an alternating series of theoretical models and self-reflexive exercises. I use the term somatic awareness to imply a first-person, here/now, sensory perception: how we feel, and know ourselves on a process level rather than on an image or object level, inferentially. One can summarize this theory using the form...