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January 19, 2018 Bernard Andrieu, Olivier Sirost 5 citations
Body ecology is based on philosophies of awakening and consciousness. These immersers into consciousness favour transcendental meditation and reflexivity in action through physical practices of consciousness. Although we might distinguish these techniques, the holistic context of each can cause confusion because the action on one part of the body would immediately be related to that of other...
Oxford Scholarship Online January 18, 2018 Dan Zahavi
Husserl’s turn from a descriptive phenomenology to a transcendental phenomenology is linked to his methodological employment of the reduction and the epoché. But how should one interpret these notions? Are they crucial to phenomenology, do they enable phenomenology to become metaphysically committed, or are they tools that reveal Husserl’s commitment to a form of methodological solipsism?...
Psychology Press eBooks January 17, 2018 Henry Pierce Stapp 5 citations
Physical scientists were driven during the late twenties to abandon a fundamental idea that had reigned since the time of Issac Newton. To obtain a rationally coherent and practically useful theory of all physical phenomena they turned to a pragmatic approach. The core idea was that the basic physical theory was no longer directly about a physical world that was conceived to exists apart from...
Routledge eBooks January 12, 2018 Fraser Watts
This chapter considers what is meant by consciousness, distinguishing the various things that are meant by the term and looking at changing assumptions about the relationship between mind and brain. It examines the critique of religion mounted by Francis Crick on the basis of the scientific study of consciousness. The chapter concerns the theological insight that God can be understood in some...
Neuroimage January 12, 2018 Charlotte Murphy, Elizabeth Jefferies, Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer et al. 288 citations
The default mode network supports a variety of mental operations such as semantic processing, episodic memory retrieval, mental time travel and mind-wandering, yet the commonalities between these functions remains unclear. One possibility is that this system supports cognition that is independent of the immediate environment; alternatively or additionally, it might support higher-order...
Global Journal of Health Science January 7, 2018 L. Lucy H. Field, Stephen David Edwards, David J. Edwards et al. 19 citations
This study investigated biofeedback using heart rate variability (HRV) and psychometric measures. An original, mixed, quantitative and qualitative, within subjects, pre-test and post-test design was employed to evaluate the influence of a HeartMath training programme on measures of HRV, sense of coherence, mindfulness and relaxation in a convenience sample of 13 participants with age range...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis January 3, 2018 Richard P. Kluft 19 citations
Sigmund Freud developed what became psychoanalysis in the context of his experiences with hypnosis and the treatment of the grand hysterics of his era, conditions largely classified among the dissociative disorders in contemporary systems of diagnosis. He rapidly constructed understandings of the human mind and human distress that replaced the concept of dissociation and a model of pathology...
Comparative Philosophy An International Journal of Constructive Engagement of Distinct Approaches toward World Philosophy January 2, 2018 Matthew Mackenzie 1 citation
According to Vasubandhu’s Trisvabhāvanirdeśa or Treatise on the Three Natures, experiential phenomena can be understood in terms of three natures: the constructed (parikalpita), the dependent (paratantra), and the consummate (pariniṣpanna). This paper will examine internalist and anti-internalist or non-dualist interpretations of the Yogācāra theory of the three natures of experience. The...
Contemporary Buddhism January 2, 2018 Paul R. Fleischman 1 citation
Vipassana meditation in the tradition of S.N. Goenka is based upon neutral, non-judgemental, non-reactive awareness of the arising and passing of body sensations. This focus for meditation has two advantages. First, it is a practical focus that most people find they can work with, and that derives from a historical connection to the Buddha’s words. Second, this meditative focus puts the...
NeuroQuantology 2018 Paul Bessler
Prior to the 20th century, the strictly deterministic laws of classical Newtonian physics made the integration of a non-physical entity such as volition into a scientific model of brain dynamics a seemingly impossible task. However, the probabilistic laws of quantum physics discovered in the 1920’s have provided researchers with a valuable new tool, allowing them to account for non-physical...