Oxford Scholarship Online
August 24, 2017
Shaun Gallagher
12 citations
An enactivist approach to understanding the mind, in its fullest sense, is not just a matter of action-oriented processes; enactivism is about more than action and sensory–motor contingencies. To understand cognition as richly embodied this chapter considers factors involving affectivity and intersubjectivity. Empirical studies show that affectivity, in a wide sense that includes hunger,...
C&EN Global Enterprise
August 21, 2017
Steve Ritter
The euphoria and hallucinations induced from eating Psilocybe "magic mushrooms" have earned the fungi a cult following. Albert Hofmann, a chemist at Sandoz, isolated and determined the structure of psilocybin, the main ingredient in the mushrooms that leads to the psychedelic effects, nearly 60 years ago. That discovery and subsequent mind-altering experiments by Harvard University psychologist...
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
August 18, 2017
Mohammad Shalauddin, Mohammed Shamsul Hoque, Touhid Bhuiyan
This study aims at analyzing image schemas (Johnson, 1987) and stages of grief (Kubler-Ross, 1969) in Tagore's near-death experience (NDE) poems written in the last ninety days before his death.Selected verses of the period in question are analyzed using benchmarks set by Johnson and Kubler-Ross.Relation between the schemas and some linguistic forms, themes and moods of these poems are also...
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
August 18, 2017
Ralf-Peter Behrendt
Commentary on Faw's comprehensive response to a previous commentary (‘Hippocampus as a wormhole’ by Ralf‐Peter Behrendt, doi: 10.1002/wcs.1446 ) on Faw and Faw's paper (doi: 10.1002/wcs.1412 ). WIREs Cogn Sci 2017, e1447. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1447 . This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Consciousness Neuroscience > Anatomy
August 18, 2017
Jared R. Lindahl
A qualitative study of Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation investigated unexpected, challenging, difficult, and distressing experiences. This paper reports on a subset of 12 practitioners within Tibetan Vajrayāna lineages who described energy flowing through their body, knots of pain, pressure or tension, and/or concurrent emotional changes. In some cases, somatic changes were...
Performance Research
August 18, 2017
Richard Talbot
2 citations
Give Me Your Love by Jon Haynes and David Woods, Artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus, is the second in a trilogy Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love, to be presented in 2018, a series of plays investigating innovative mental health therapies. Give Me Your Love is a response to the first UK trials of MDMA assisted psychotherapy for chronic treatment resistant PTSD. The work has been made in...
Journal of MCU Peace Studies
August 15, 2017
Phrakhrusathitdhammalangka Sujato
This research work is documentary one and the conversational one which is of 3 objectives, namely :- 1. to study the viewpoint about the Vipassana Bhavana in Theravada Buddhist Scriptures, 2. to study the process of teaching Vipassana in the important offices in Thai societies, 3. to developing of teaching Vipassana with the success for developing the life qualities, by studying the data...
August 11, 2017
Cade McCall, Nikolaus Steinbeis, Matthieu Ricard et al.
1 citation
Fairness violations elicit powerful behavioral and affective responses. Indeed, people are willing to incur costs to sanction unfair behavior. Here we study the possible impact of long-term mental training in socio-affective capacities such as compassion on altruistic punishment and compensatory behavior in economic games. To this end we recruited a group of long-term meditation practitioners...
Advances in Medical Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care
August 10, 2017
Frederick Travis
1 citation
This chapter explores subjective and objective correlates of the state of Yoga during Transcendental Meditation practice. Yoga fits the three criteria of a higher state of consciousness: (1) Yoga has a different subject/object relationship than other states. In Yoga there is no content—only self-awareness. (2) Yoga involves a more expanded sense-of-self. Content analysis of descriptions of Yoga...
August 9, 2017
S. Bauer-Wu, A. Butler, Justin K. Rajendra et al.
According to constructivist theories of emotion, members of different populations experience emotion differently as a result of assembling different neural resources to produce it. To test this prediction, we sampled individuals from three populations (experienced meditators, cancer survivors, matched controls) and used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess their neural...