The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
April 2018
Brett H Clarke
As a conspicuously hybrid entity, neuropsychoanalysis enjoins one to look critically at its assumptions about knowledge and subjectivity as one tries to understand how its un-hyphenated halves relate to one another. The author looks at the differences between mind (which is grounded in subjective experience) and brain (which is an objectively described neurobiological entity), and suggests that...
Studies in history and philosophy of science
April 1, 2018
Gary Fuller
In the philosophy of mind and psychology, a central question since the 1960s has been that of how to give a philosophically adequate formulation of mind-body physicalism. A large quantity of work on the topic has been done in the interim. There have been, and continue to be, extensive discussions of the ideas of physicalism, identity, functionalism, realization, and constitution. My aim in this...
Integral Transpersonal Journal
April 1, 2018
Jevon Dangeli, Hennie Geldenhuys
“Holding The Space” is the metaphorical container for the therapeutic interaction between the coach or therapist and client. Although the held space is largely intuitive, transpersonal practitioners who wish to teach, apply and develop its practice are faced with the challenge of reproducing it consistently and intentionally. Some important aspects of the held space include energetic resonance...
Medical Hypotheses
April 1, 2018
Majid Beshkar
What is the nature of qualia? Why qualia are subjective? This article is an attempt to provide speculative answers to these questions based on what we know about thermodynamics. The proposed answer to the first question is that qualia are self-organized structures built by exported entropy. The proposed answer to the second question is that qualia are subjective because entropy-decreasing...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
April 1, 2018
Paul J Mills, Christine Tara Peterson, Meredith A Pung et al.
23 citations
This study examined the effects of a comprehensive mind-body program on sense of nondual awareness and spiritual awakening. The study compared the effects of participation in an intensive 6-day Ayurveda-based mind-body program that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual domains as compared with a control condition. Resort setting. Participants were 69 healthy women and men (mean age 53.9...
American Journal on Addictions
April 1, 2018
Joseph El-Khoury, Evelyne Baroud
3 citations
Recreational use of salvia divinorum (salvia), a potent, naturally occurring hallucinogen, is on the rise internationally. Despite the paucity of information about its long-term health effects, salvia is readily available and generally portrayed as a safe non-addictive substance. We report on two patients who presented with an enduring and pervasive pattern of salvia use. Evaluating patients...
불교학보
March 31, 2018
Eun-su Cho
본 논문은 국제적 비파사나 명상 네트워크인 고엥카의 “비파사나 명상 센터”(Vipassana Meditation Center)의 운영 방식을 주목하여, 그 운영의 원칙 속에 녹아서 작동하는 초기불교의 이념을 분석해 보임으로써, 가르치는 법(法, Dharma)의 내용과 이 수행프로그램을 운영하는 방식 간에 존재하는 일관성이 이 단체를 세계적인 조직으로 성장하게 한 원동력이 되었음을 보이고자 한다. 이 프로그램은 정교한 체계와 광범한 조직을 가지고 있으며, 그 운영의 원칙은 프로그램의 내용과 상관성을 가지며 명실상부하게 이루어지고 있다. 열흘간의 수행프로그램을 통해 수련생들은 명상법과 불교의 가르침을 배우고 느끼며, 궁극적으로 프로그램 운영의 원칙이 불교의 담마(Dhamma)에 기반하고 있음을 체험한다....
Medical Humanities
March 30, 2018
Lucas Richert, Matthew DeCloedt
4 citations
Much discussion about mental health has revolved around treatment models. As interdisciplinary scholarship has shown, mental health knowledge, far from being a neutral product detached from the society that generated it, was shaped by politics, economics and culture. By drawing on case studies of yoga, religion and fitness, this article will examine the ways in which mental health...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 29, 2018
Pooja Varma, Waheeda Khan
preprint
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is found to be the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Currently, the Myocardial Infarction (MI) or stroke incidence in India is much higher than western industrialized countries. One of the factors associated with an increased riskof MI are chronic hassles at workplace, financial setbacksand persistentanxietythat aggravate incident of CHD and cardiac mortality....
March 29, 2018
Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi
Severing the connection between body and spirit is a strange thing indeed. For any spiritual awareness the author experience is mediated through the body—our brain with its electric and neural pathways is of the body, our feelings are of the body; even people who undergo out-of-body experiences are aware of it through their body. In the Kabbalah the author are taught to view our own body as a...