Trata o presente artigo de uma reflexão sobre as potencialidades educativas de determinadas plantas com destaque para aquela que é considerada a planta professora por excelência, a ayahausca, beberagem de origem indígena, também conhecida por uma diversidade de nomes, entre os quais: natema, yagé, nepe, kahi, caapi, nixi pae, shori, kamarampi, cipó, além de daime, vegetal e outros. Resultado de...
Key words: dhyāna, samādhi, the King of Concentration (Samādhirāja) Sūtra, the disturbing emotions (kleśa), single-pointed concentration, the meditative stages of Buddhist path, the nine mental states, Samatha meditation, “Calm abiding meditation, mindfulness on, resultant liberation (nirvāṇa); selflessness of phenomena,
Virtual reality (VR) technology is currently seeing a surge of interest in industry, academia, and the public. Myriad developments are already underway, aiming to bring the technology directly to users\nin ways that offer access to rich virtual multisensory experiences. The immersivity that VR offers is enabled by the brain’s constraints on processing bodily self-consciousness (BSC), which...
Some thinkers have claimed that expert performance with technology is characterized by a kind of disappearance of that technology from conscious experience, that is, by the transparency of the tools and equipment through which we sense and manipulate the world. This is a claim that may be traced to phenomenological philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, but it has been influential in...
This article addresses an under-researched area of writing studies: the use of contemplative pedagogies in the development of graduate writing. Drawing on reflective analysis from writing instructors, this article seeks to both contextualize the teaching and learning of writing in the Thai context, and to introduce experiments in contemplative writing pedagogy. In particular, the article...
This study aimed to determine the feasibility of a resident-led resiliency curriculum developed by residents, for residents. The Stress Management and Resiliency Training Program for Residents (SMART-R) is a 6-h group-based curriculum that teaches meditation, behavioral skills, and positive perspective-taking strategies. SMART-R was implemented for all medicine and psychiatry interns at a large...
The worlds of religious naturalism and Zen Buddhism are wide-ranging geographies, offering diverse journeys to wisdom and insight. This chapter explores the insights of Zen Buddhism relevant to religious naturalism, particularly as developed in recent Western scholarship focused on thirteenth-century Japanese Zen philosopher Eihei Dogen. Dogen&s;s form of Zen stressed direct awakening through...
Depuis une trentaine d’années, la méditation a fait une entrée fracassante dans nos vies. En renaissant sous le nom de pleine conscience, ou « mindfulness », elle est aujourd’hui mobilisée dans de nombreux contextes comme le travail, la prison ou l’hôpital. L’objectif de ce mémoire est de comprendre comment la méditation a pu s’implanter durablement dans un régime temporel marqué par...
Meditation has a versatile nature to affect cognitive functioning of human brain. Recent researches demonstrated its effects on white matter (WM) properties of human brain. In this research, we aim to investigate WM microstructure of corpus callosum (CC) in long-term meditators (LTMs) of rajayoga meditation using diffusion tensor imaging. For this cross-sectional analysis, 22 LTMs and 17...
Objective: The mind-brain problem (MBP) has marked implications for psychiatry, but has been poorly discussed in the psychiatric literature. This paper evaluates the presentation of the MBP in the three leading general psychiatry journals during the last 20 years. Methods: Systematic review of articles on the MBP published in the three general psychiatry journals with the highest impact factor...