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March 29, 1990 175 citations
Abstract This collection of essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience. It attempts to show that there is a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines. This is the experience of `pure consciousness', a state in which the subject remains conscious but experiences neither thought, sensation, feeling, nor object of...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1990 Charles T. Tart
The great spiritual traditions agree that the cultivation of mindfulness is central. Without mindfulness we live in a state of distorted perceptions and fantasies, acting inappropriately with reference to our own true nature and the reality of the immediate situation, and consequently creating stupid and useless suffering. This article is oriented toward those readers already convinced of the...
International Journal of Neuroscience February 1989 S Freed
Detailed functional isomorphism had been observed (Freed, 1984) between induced (conditioned) immunogenicity and classical conditioned defensive reflexes, possibly as evolutionary adaptation against danger at micro and macro levels respectively. Similarly, functional isomorphism is postulated between conditioned specific tolerogenicity of the immunotolerance system and behavioral reflexes....
Journal of Religion and Health September 1, 1988 J R King
Like the teaching stories of many other religions-the parables of Jesus, Zen koans, Hasidic tales-the stories of the Sufis, or Islamic mystics, offer important insights into the nature of religious experience and emotional well-being. This paper discusses the comments of selected Sufi tales on the basic structure of situations, non-rational or lateral problem-solving techniques, the process of...
Religious Studies March 1, 1988 Michael McGhee
I have meditated regularly, following simple Buddhist procedures, for more than ten years, and that seems just about long enough for me to start to offer some preliminary account of it, despite the limitations of my progress and experience, and the difficulty of describing the more intimate and less explored reaches of the mind. I think I have learned enough to say that through prolonged...
1986 M. Hedegaard, S. Kvale
In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly ‘swim against the stream’ of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our...
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 1986 A Ikemi, S Tomita, M Kuroda et al.
Body-oriented therapies as relaxation training and certain forms of meditation are gaining popularity in the treatment and prevention of psychosomatic disorders. In this paper, a new method of self-control called self-regulation method (SRM), derived from autogenic training and Zen meditation, is presented. The technique of SRM is introduced. Secondly, physiological studies on SRM using skin...
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies November 1, 1985 Hajime Nakamura
Hajime the practice of C h !an was brought to China by the South Indian monk Bodhidharma.He was the third prince of the King of Gandhakutl, studied under and adopted the tradition of Prajftatara, and at sixteen years of age took the sea route to China, arriving around 470 at the Southern border of the Sung.He appears to have journeyed to Wei before 516.According to the legend, upon being...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology July 1, 1985 Michael Kahn
Theravada Buddhism and Reich's psychobiology appear at first to be polar opposites. Yet there is a Theravada school of meditation, the Vipassana of U Ba Khin, which in both theory and practice turns out to be remarkably close to Reich's worldview and his therapy. The major differences between Reich and this branch of Buddhism are the attitudes toward life and movement, Reich being strongly pro,...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1985 Carl Becker 3 citations
This article presents a Tibetan perspective on near-death experiences (NDEs) and life after death.Tibetans have been concerned with death and deathbed visions from ancient times.After reviewing the beliefs of the Bon religion and of Vajrayana Buddhism, this article focuses on the theories of the Tibetan Bardo Thodol or Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz, 1957).Many similarities to modern NDE reports...