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1971 Kojiro Nakamura
Repeated utterance of a divine name or a sacred formula is a religious behavior commonly observed in many world religions. There are, to give a few examples, hesychasm of Eastern Orthodox Christian monks; dharani and mantra of Indian Yogis; dhikr of Sufi Muslims; nembutsu of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists. The Jews also have a similar practice in the tradition of Merkabah mysticism, and the Sikhs...
Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology December 31, 1969 Daksha Madhu Rajagopalan
This is an exploration of Buddhist mindfulness as a means of conflict resolution and peace building. Drawing on monks’ efforts in post-genocide Cambodia as its case study and inspiration, this essay considers firstly, traditional environmental security conflict theories and secondly, Batesonian purposive-consciousness. Given the limitations of both these approaches in articulating the Khmer...
Revista Tempos e Espaços em Educação December 31, 1969 Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach
En este artículo se exploran sutras budistas tempranos (del Canon Pali) donde se expone la práctica del mindfulness, o de la contemplación plena: Satipaţţhāna Sutta, Mahā Satipaţţhāna Sutta, y Ānāpānasati Sutta. Se coloca el énfasis en la práctica yoga Kāyānupassanā (mindfulness del cuerpo), sus variantes y objetivos, fundamentos, y la visión de la corporeidad en que se sustenta. También se le...
JAMA July 12, 1965 Donald E. Widmann 37 citations
The medical community was alarmed recently by the uncontrolled and somewhat-promiscuous use of "hallucinogens" in one of our major cities. The lay press contained many accounts suggesting the various hallucinogenic properties, but emphasized that the drugs seemed to provide the user with something of a mystic experience— what has been called "instant Zen." InThe Beyond Withinthe author places...
Blackfriars : August 1, 1957 Victor White
Professor Zaehner’s new book is most timely, and—to anybody with any interest in the subject, from whatever point of view—quite absorbing. It is also a pioneer work, for although the study of ‘comparative mysticism’ is not totally new, the little that has hitherto been written about it has been mainly from an a priori standpoint with little regard for the actual records. Moreover, such writing...
Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) Carol Davis
As a nurse, Maitreyabandhu burned the candle at both ends, but was introduced to meditation through the London Buddhist Centre. Now he helps others to prevent relapse of depression.
E. S. Louise Faber preprint
Abstract: Spiritual practices are gaining an increasingly wider audience as a means to enhance positive affect in healthy individuals and to treat neurological disorders such as anxiety and depression. The current study aimed to examine the neural correlates of two different forms of love generated by spiritual practices using EEG; love generated during a loving kindness meditation performed by...
While the effects of mindfulness practices on the self are not widely recognized, a reduction in self-centered or “self-referential” processing stands as one of the central therapeutic mechanisms of mindfulness-based psychotherapy. In this literature-based research, I compared two cultural variations of mindfulness-based psychotherapy: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), developed...
Ganesh Bharate, Sumantran Ray
Caught within fast paced- urban industrial society, many of us may not ask questions about the nature of our mind, thoughts, although our mind, and thoughts often cause distress to us. Stressed between demands of tasks, and unexpected situations like pandemic loneliness, our paper offers useful insights into the dynamics of consciousness- the wandering mind (intentional, & unintentional...
Mark Miller, Zach Buck, Alex Zhu et al. preprint
Near-death experiences (NDEs) and advanced contemplative practices such as dark retreat are frequently reported to involve vivid inner imagery, encounters with non-ordinary agents, moral insight, and panoramic life reviews. Despite growing empirical interest, these experiences remain theoretically fragmented across neuroscience, psychology, and religious studies. In this paper, we develop a...