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...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1996
George Pattison
The language and the symbolism of nothingness, of non-being and of the void inevitably call to mind Asian traditions of religious thought and experience. Indeed, any attempt by the West to go it alone in formulating an adequate account of nothingness would be the height of provincialism. 1 On the contrary, the enterprise of thinking through the concept of nothingness in the context of Western...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1996
M. L. Morse, Karlis Osis, Bruce Greyson
I have read with amusement the banter between Kenneth Ring and various corresponents concerning his supposed retirement from research.Ring's impact on the field of near-death studies precludes and transcends any retirement on his part.His work continues to inspire and challenge virtually everyone in the fled, from Buddhist parapsychologist Susan Blackmore to mainstream medical scientists such...
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
May 1, 1995
Ruben L. F. Habito
5 citations
Tendai hongaku thought has come under scrutiny and severe criticism recently on two counts，one ontological and the other socio-ethical.The ontological critique maintains that hongaku thought espouses substantialistic notions inconsistent with the teaching of early Buddhism.This article examines passages from hongaku writings and offers a reading that takes into account enlightenment practice in...
ANU Open Research
1995
My Thien
3 citations
This study aims to provide an overview of Vietnamese supernaturalism in the Mekong delta through an examination of four different realms. They are: the village communal house, or dình., the Buddhist-Daoist private temple, or chùa, mediumistic practices, and the practice of self-cultivation, among whose outstanding proponents were the Daoists (Ông Dao). These four realms '' permeated with two...
Religious Studies
June 1, 1994
L. Philip Barnes
13 citations
In a recent study entitled ‘Numinous Experience and Religious Language’, Dr Leon Schlamm has endorsed Rudolf Otto's well known and much discussed account of the relationship of religious experience to religious language, and then used this position to criticize some highly influential voices in the continuing debate on the precise nature of mystical experience. The aim of this paper, in...