Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
August 2018
Emily Hielscher, Melissa Connell, David W. Lawrence et al.
Despite growing literature on psychotic experiences, no nationally representative study has reported on the prevalence of both hallucinatory experiences and delusional experiences in Australian adolescents. Also, while many studies have examined the association between psychotic experiences and certain demographic and clinical correlates, there are more variables of interest to be investigated,...
August 1, 2018
David Herman
It is the fundamental insight of phenomenology that meaning is first and foremost - not something which we intellectually reflect on. It is not a product of the mind reworking raw, perceptual experiences. Rather meaning, and our connection to the world, are perceptual phenomena. Thus, to understand the ways in which children find meaning demands a turn toward perceptual experiences - how...
Consciousness and Cognition
August 1, 2018
Matthias Forstmann, Pascal Burgmer
In this article, we show that lay people's beliefs about how minds relate to bodies are more complex than past research suggests, and that treating them as a multidimensional construct helps explain inconclusive findings from the literature regarding their relation to beliefs about whether humans possess a free will. In two studies, we found that items previously used to assess a unidimensional...
Consciousness and Cognition
August 1, 2018
Peter Carruthers
37 citations
The goal of this paper is to establish the truth of the following conditional: if a global workspace theory of phenomenal consciousness is correct, and is fully reductive in nature, then we should stop asking questions about consciousness in nonhuman animals-not because those questions are too hard to answer, but because there are no substantive facts to discover. The argument in support of...
Spirituality in Clinical Practice
July 30, 2018
Enrico Facco, Daniela Lucangeli, Patrizio Emmanuele Tressoldi
10 citations
In this article, we report some excerpts from the writings of Dr. A.M., an adult female, regarding the knowledge she acquired during the regular mystical experi- ences she has been having since April 2014. This case is exceptional for multiple reasons. First, she experienced this particular state of consciousness without any associated medical or neurological illnesses. Second, these...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 30, 2018
Sascha Benjamin Fink
4 citations
Author: Fink, Sascha Benjamin; Genre: Journal Article; Published online: 2018-07-30; Open Access; Keywords: Bewusstseinskultur; consciousness culture; consciousness ethics; functionality of consciousness; phenomenal consciousness; phenomenal value; subjective value; transformative experiences; Title: Commentary: The concept of a Bewusstseinskultur
Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
July 30, 2018
Kevin Healey
Using the grounded theory method (GTM), this article proposes an “integral” model for studying the development and use of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies. Integral models seek holistic understanding by combining third-person, empirical perspectives with first-person, subjective experience. Here, the proposed model provides a comparative analysis of immersive virtual reality...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
This chapter explains why and how this research on the healthy mind is being done with Tibetan lamas. It begins with a narrative account of a moment in the summer of 1994, when I was wondering alone through the Chang Tang—a virtually uninhabited and mountainous plateau in northern Tibet. One day, as I was trekking through the Chang Tang, a single lama on horseback materialized out of nowhere,...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
Chapter 7 opens with a narrative description of the predation tactics of wolves as they hunt caribou, and establishes that the wolves and caribou are an example of the self-regulatory systems of which nature is composed. It then moves on to a broader exploration of how nature is a cascade of systems within systems, like Russian dolls. This analysis culminates in the insight that the human mind...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
Chapter 9 demonstrates that the egocentric mind is an unhealthy mind because the workings of the ego create a group of “normal pathologies” that cause anyone that has an ego to lead unhappy and inauthentic lives. The normal pathologies of the ego are (1) internal conflict, (2) moods, (3) loss of one’s true self and (4) the mind films and the existential ruts they create. The ubiquity of the...