In this essay, I detail the mainsprings of Evan Thompson's creative synthesis of Indian philosophy, Western phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience—what he calls “contemplative neuroscience”—and sketch some of his key arguments. I focus on his method of “neurophenomenology” and the connections among his understanding of three key concepts: consciousness, dreaming, and the link...
Nondual awareness and the state of samādhi in the context of the neurophenomenological research: The aim of this paper is to compare various meditative states, such as Buddhist dhyāna‐s, yogic nirbīja samādhi and nondual awareness (Tib. gñis‐med). The primary sour‐ ce texts I refere to are Yogasūtras of Patañjali, Ānāpānasmṛtisūtra (MN 118), Samādhisūtra (AN 41), The Tibetan Yogas...
Reviewed by: Dreams, Dreamers and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World ed. by Anne Marie Plane and Leslie Tuttle Robert Moss Dreams, Dreamers and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World. Edited by anne marie plane and leslie tuttle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 316 pp. $65 (cloth). Shall these texts live? This is a major challenge for the historian of dreams in...
A standout resource on the emerging field of applying neuropsychology and the latest findings in sleep and dream research to religious experience, this book investigates the proven biological links between REM dreams and religious ideas, covering past and current schools of thought in both the science of dreams and the science of religion. Across time and around the world, billions of people...
Sage Open2016S. M. Mirbagherifard, S. M. Rozatian, Mahnoush Mani
Dream is one of the important topics of mystic texts and is of great significance in Islamic mysticism. Most writers of such texts have allocated a section of their books to it. Dream could be viewed from different perspectives, but it seems, what attracts mystics the most is the content of dream. The important issues considered the content of dream are seeing God, the Prophet, the Imams, the...
The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims Gail Orgelfinger A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints. By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. When demons began to torment her in late 1395, Ermine was a middle-aged (48) widow who had moved to Reims from the countryside a decade earlier with her elderly husband in order to find work. About two years after...
Connecting dreams with somatic illness has a long tradition; e. g., physicians like Hippocrates or Galen used dreams for diagnosing and curing illnesses. The present study investigated the relationship between illness, health-related worries, and health-related dreams in a sample of 178 persons. The findings indicate that having a minor illness and especially health-related worries increased...
Introduction: Despite known sex differences in the endocannabinoid system of animals, little attention has been paid to sex differences in human's cannabis use patterns and effects. The purpose of the present study was to examine sex differences in cannabis use patterns and effects in a large sample of recreational and medical cannabis users. Methods: A large sample (n=2374) of cannabis users...
There are now several thousand remedies available to a homoeopath and this number is continually increasing with the increase in homoeopathic research and provings. This growing wealth of data does, however, make choosing a homoeopathic remedy difficult and some homoeopaths argue that the essence of homoeopathic remedies are being lost in this excess of data. In an attempt to more accurately...
Disrupted sleep is common among combat veterans and can negatively impact response to mental health treatments. A trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) for nightmares was conducted with 14 combat veterans diagnosed with insomnia, and who were experiencing posttraumatic stress and/or depression. In the case-series that follows veterans...