International Journal of Yoga Therapy
November 1, 2018
Crystal L Park, A Rani Elwy, Meghan Maiya et al.
Yoga interventions are heterogeneous and vary along multiple dimensions. These dimensions may affect mental and physical health outcomes in different ways or through different mechanisms. However, most studies of the effects of yoga on health do not adequately describe or quantify the components of the interventions being implemented. This lack of detail prevents researchers from making...
2018 14th Symposium on Neural Networks and Applications
November 1, 2018
D. Raković
Tesla’s visions and inventions realized in his controlled altered states of consciousness, are proposed to be manifestations of his meditation insights and macro-quantum correlations of individual and collective consciousness, with significant quantum-holographic creative-educational and psychosomatic-spiritual implications. In wider context, this could help improve future holistic strategies...
November 1, 2018
Tadas Stumbrys, Viktorija Daunytė
Dreaming is a very creative state of mind. Lucid dreamers – who can become aware in their dreams that they are dreaming – have an advantage of directly tapping into the creative potentials of the dreaming mind. This study explored the relationship between lucid dreaming and creativity. Twenty lucid dreamers were asked to accomplish a creative generation task once in a lucid dream and once while...
Nanoethics
November 1, 2018
Darian Meacham, Miguel Prado Casanova
There is a growing recognition within cognitive enhancement and neuroethics debates of the need for greater emphasis on cognitive artefacts. This paper aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhancement and neuroethics debates by focusing on a particular form of relation or coupling between humans and cognitive artefacts: interaction-dominance. We argue that...
Neuropharmacology
November 1, 2018
Henrik Jungaberle, Sascha Thal, Andrea Zeuch et al.
70 citations
RationaleWe reviewed the concepts and empirical findings in studies with psychedelics and entactogens related to positive psychology - the study of healthy human functioning, well-being and eudaemonia. It is an unresolved question how beneficial effects of psychedelics and entactogens are related to the potential risks of these substances - particularly in non-clinical settings.MethodsWe...
Routledge eBooks
October 26, 2018
Willem Lemmens
This chapter presents Hume’s account of the origins of religious belief as developed in his Natural History of Religion . It shows, first of all, how Hume’s psychology of religion forms an integral part of his philosophy of mind in the Treatise of Human Nature . Second, it elucidates how Hume’s psychology of religion is interwoven with his moral critique of religion. Religion stems not from an...
Journal of Management Inquiry
October 25, 2018
Erik Dane, Kevin W. Rockmann
7 citations
Traveling to novel destinations can give rise to a state of attention referred to here as a “traveler’s mind”—a state in which two forms of a popular concept in management and organization studies, mindfulness, occur in tandem. In this essay, written as a personal narrative, I explore the nature of a traveler’s mind, discuss the conditions under which this state of attention is most likely to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 25, 2018
David A. Crews
preprint
INTRODUCTION Union with Christ stands at the very apex of the Christian doctrine of salvation. The whole of our personal relationship to God can be summed up in such terms. John Calvin agreed when he wrote, "For we await salvation from Him not because He appears to us a far off, but because He makes us engrafted into His body, participates not only in all His benefits but also in Himself"...
Routledge eBooks
October 25, 2018
Kobus Marais
The Cartesian schism, as far as I understand it, is alive and well in current scholarship across a wide variety of disciplines. One of its implications is that most scientists regard ‘things’ like mind, consciousness, intention, will, and love as epiphenomenal at best and non-existent at worst. For the humanities, this implication means that most scholars just bracket out physics, matter, and...
Routledge eBooks
October 24, 2018
Hubert Nearman, Master P.t.n.h. Jiyu-Kennett, Daizui Macphillamy
2 citations
Bodhidharma, the great Indian Ancestor, is credited by the Zen Tradition with having introduced the practice of Serene Reflection Meditation into China some time near the beginning of the sixth century c.e. It is said that after he arrived in South China by sea, he went to the court of the emperor Wu of the Liang dynastic family, where he found great commitment on the part of both the emperor...