Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
1963
Elizabeth K. Nottingham, Mircéa Éliade, Willard R. Trask
282 citations
In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such conditionings as time and history. Drawing years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory...
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
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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...
Hiroe Hu, Harold D. Roth
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.
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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...
Mohammad Amir Khusru Akhtar
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What Makes Experience Possible? A Comparative Architecture of Consciousness Across Philosophical Traditions: From Plato to Predictive Processing, from Advaita to AI develops a comparative philosophical framework for understanding the conditions that make experience possible. Rather than defending a single metaphysical theory of consciousness, the book compares major philosophical, religious,...
Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake
The mechanisms underlying consciousness and its potential continuity beyond biological death remain unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy. This study proposes a novel theoretical framework integrating quantum biology, Buddhist psychology, and thought experiments to address these questions. Using three hypothetical scenarios—brain revival, molecular disassembly/reassembly, and synthetic...
Rémi Thériault, Romane Masson, Stéphane Dandeneau
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Context. Many spiritual traditions, like Buddhism, emphasize the importance of developing feelings of love and altruism toward others regardless of circumstances, but doing so can be challenging, especially in situations where individuals have little self-control resources, for example due to cognitive fatigue. These traditions offer techniques to train the mind, such as loving-kindness...