Annual Review of Anthropology
July 26, 2023
John Marlovits, Matthew Wolf‐meyer
6 citations
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as “normal,” which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the...
SCIREA Journal of Sociology
July 25, 2023
D. Raković
4 citations
We hereby focus on the quantum-holographic bases of psychosomatics and spirituality. This is of special importance due to the widespread use of integrative medicine in developed countries – as contemporary research of psychosomatic diseases suggests necessity of holistic methods (focusing on the body's acupuncture system and consciousness), oriented to treating man as a whole and not of disease...
Religions
July 25, 2023
Dominika Ruszkiewicz
The aim of this article is to situate Chaucer’s The House of Fame in the tradition of exercising the self as practiced by ancient philosophers and theorized by Pierre Hadot. It shows that Chaucer’s poem contains echoes of an ancient exercise referred to as ‘the view from above’, which engages the faculties of the imagination in order to enable an individual to review their life and to situate...
July 24, 2023
Wazir C Vasudeva
2 citations
This chapter highlights about yogic breathing as Highest Protection to Life. Yoga breathing improves health and speeds up recovery. There are a few significant yogic breathing exercises [pranayama] discussed together with their advantages and disadvantages. Yogic breathing aids in blood purification, sinus and nasal passageway clearing, increased blood flow, nervous system toning, and...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
July 23, 2023
Allison Aitken
1 citation
There’s a common line of reasoning which supposes that the phenomenal unity of conscious experience is grounded in a mind-like simple subject. To the contrary, Mādhyamika Buddhist philosophers beginning with Śrīgupta (seventh–eighth century) argue that any kind of mental simple is incoherent and thus metaphysically impossible. Lacking any unifying principle, the phenomenal unity of conscious...
Heliyon
July 22, 2023
L. J. U. Karunarathne, Lakmali Amarasiri, A. D. A. Fernando
16 citations
Purpose: Respiratory function is thought to improve with long-term meditation. This study aimed to assess respiratory function in a cohort of healthy long-term meditators and non-meditators in Sri Lanka. Methods: Respiratory function of healthy, skilled long-term meditators (n = 20) practicing Buddhist meditation consistently >3 years, and age-sex matched non-meditators (n = 20) were assessed...
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
July 21, 2023
Harald Maurer
The topic of this chapter are cognitive neuroarchitectures, which have been developed since the mid-eighties in connectionism as theoretical models to explain, based on empirical-experimental data, as neurophysiologically plausible as possible perceptual and linguistic performances of self-organizing neuronal networks in the human brain that are related to the binding problem. Thus,...
AN-ICON
July 21, 2023
Federica Cavaletti
From its very origins, cinema has demonstrated a particular interest in the representation of altered states of consciousness: memories, visions, nightmares and dreams are a common feature of narrative films and usually interrupt a flow of events by inserting different temporalities in the present of the story. Following the arguments explored by Gilles Deleuze in his groundbreaking works on...
AN-ICON
July 21, 2023
Federica Cavaletti
Representing altered states of consciousness, even through the most phantasmal of technical images, is an inherent contradiction; once we attribute a physical body, i.e. objectivity, to mental images, we deny what Husserl considers their very essence. Jean Mitry draws from this assumption when discussing filmic access to mental states from a phenomenological perspective. The following essay...
iScience
July 21, 2023
Haojie Li, Zhihao Du, Shunze Shen et al.
14 citations
The positive impact of mind-body movement therapy on mental health has been confirmed, but the current effect of various mind-body movement-specific therapies on improving the negative psychology of college students is controversial. This study compared the effects of six mind-body exercise (MBE) therapies on improving negative psychological symptoms in college students. The study found that...