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IARJSET June 30, 2020 Rakhi Sinha
Karmayoga was a path taught by Krishna to his disciple, Arjuna, in the historic spiritual scripture, the Bhagavad Gita.The essence of his Karma Yoga teachings were that one must participate in the world, performing their proper activities without attachments to the outcome while all the while devoting themselves to the path of union with the Divine.Therefore, the term "self-less service"...
The Qualitative Report June 27, 2020 Kate M. Guthrie
The following is a review of the book Contemplative Qualitative Inquiry: Practicing the Zen of Research by Valerie J. Janesick and published in 2015. This review aims to highlight the book’s unique features, primarily focusing on the ways in which Janesick appropriately weaves essential aspects of qualitative research and Zen alongside one another. Janesick offers readers, novice or experienced...
June 27, 2020 Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian preprint
In this paper, we introduce the Hinduism religion and philosophy. We start with introducing the holy books in Hinduism including Vedas and Upanishads. Then, we explain the simplistic Hinduism, Brahman, gods and their incarnations, stories of apocalypse, karma, reincarnation, heavens and hells, vegetarianism, and sanctity of cows. Then, we switch to the profound Hinduism which is the main core...
Frontiers in Psychology June 25, 2020 Leonor Irarrázaval 20 citations
This article seeks to clarify the way in which phenomenology is conceptualized and applied in empirical research in psychiatry and psychology, emphasizing the suitability of qualitative research. It will address the "What," "Why," and "How" of phenomenological interviews, providing not only preliminary answers but also a critical analysis and pointing to future directions for research. The...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies June 23, 2020 M. Nel 10 citations
Western academic theology do not succeed in accounting for the identity and faith culture of African Pentecostals for at least two reasons. In the first place, because as part of the Pentecostal movement it grew from the holiness, divine healing and revivalist movement that went back to Pietism and emphasised a holistic effective spirituality, and secondly, because it links with the holistic...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health June 22, 2020 Chan-Young Kwon, Hui-Yong Kwak, Jong Woo Kim
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the world, and its deleterious effects on human domestic life, society, economics, and especially on human mental health are expected to continue. Mental health experts highlighted health issues this pandemic may cause, such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mind-body intervention,...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) June 22, 2020 Peter Lloyd
Models of consciousness are usually developed within physical monist or dualistic frameworks, in which the structure and dynamics of the mind are derived from the workings of the physical brain. Little attention has been given to modelling consciousness within a mental monist framework, deriving the structure and dynamics of the mental world from primitive mental constituents only-with no...
Synthese June 18, 2020 Maurizio Meloni, J. Reynolds 19 citations
The role of the body in cognition is acknowledged across a variety of disciplines, even if the precise nature and scope of that contribution remain contentious. As a result, most philosophers working on embodiment—e.g. those in embodied cognition, enactivism, and ‘4e’ cognition—interact with the life sciences as part of their interdisciplinary agenda. Despite this, a detailed engagement with...
June 15, 2020 Ellina Mourtazina
The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion and function of silent landscape in a touristic experience by presenting the findings of a study on silent retreats in a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Northern India.,This study adopted a sensory ethnography approach applied through interviews and participant observation methods conducted during and after nine retreats in a meditation...
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy June 15, 2020 Federico Zilio
Enactivism maintains that the mind is not produced and localized inside the head but is distributed along and through brain-body-environment interactions. This idea of an intrinsic relationship between the agent and the world derives from the classical phenomenological investigations of the body (Merleau-Ponty in particular). This paper discusses similarities and differences between enactivism...