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Living Zen Remindfully October 21, 2016 James H. Austin
This chapter recounts the evolution of the author’s benign auditory hypnopompic hallucinations over the past 12 years. They represent a memory retrieval function that can become more elaborate when meditation occurs more frequently.
Oxford University Press eBooks October 20, 2016 Roger R. Jackson 1 citation
Roger Jackson summarizes the state of scholarship on the writings and thought of great and historically important Mahāyāna philosopher Nāgārjuna. The chapter moves through historical issues on the philosopher and the literary and legendary sources bearing on his historical location; it turns to an exhaustive overview of writings attributed to him, with special focus on the analysis of the...
Current behavioral neuroscience reports October 18, 2016 Bianca P. Acevedo, Sarah Pospos, Helen Lavretsky 83 citations
Meditation has been shown to have physical, cognitive, and psychological health benefits that can be used to promote healthy aging. However, the common and specific mechanisms of response remain elusive due to the diverse nature of mind–body practices. In this review, we aim to compare the neural circuits implicated in focused-attention meditative practices that focus on present-moment...
Peter Lang eBooks October 11, 2016 B.R. Ross
This study suggests the psyche is hard wired for spiritual experience, for aesthetic and ethical expression, and that transpersonal expression in literature and the arts is a universal human exploration of perhaps a fundamental ground of being.
October 10, 2016 M. Szalay
In the following meditation I investigate how life is disclosed to human consciousness. I use phenomenology to avoid reducing life to the natural sphere has to avoid the common mistake of objectifying it, that is, of taking life as something, as a property of being. A more justified phenomenological approach that remains open to the supernatural character of life would focus rather on how life...
arXiv (Cornell University) October 6, 2016 Kieran C. R. Fox, Manesh Girn preprint
Humans have been aware for thousands of years that sleep comes in many forms, accompanied by different kinds of mental content. We review the first-person report literature on the frequency and type of content experienced in various stages of sleep, showing that different sleep stages are dissociable at the subjective level. We then relate these subjective differences to the growing literature...
Oxford Handbooks Online October 5, 2016 Mark R. Leary, Kate J. Diebels, Katrina P. Jongman-Sereno et al.
Topics related to self and identity have been of considerable interest to social and personality psychologists because people’s self-relevant thoughts play an important role in their cognitions, motives, emotions, and behavior. Most work in the area of self and identity has focused on phenomena that involve a high degree of self-awareness, egocentrism, and egoism. Phenomena characterized by a...
Routledge eBooks October 4, 2016 Owen Flanagan, Heather Wallace
The community of naturalists accepts that it is intuitively puzzling how phenomenal consciousness with its diaphanous texture could have emerged from matter and how it can now be realized in an abundance of sentient beings. Yet the prevailing consensus, with some notable exceptions, is that consciousness, like life, must have emerged diachronically from matter fi nding its way into new kinds of...
Frontiers in Psychology October 4, 2016 Gunther Meinlschmidt, Jong-Hwan Lee, Esther Stalujanis et al.
Background: Using mobile communication technology as new personalized approach to treat mental disorders or to more generally improve quality of life is highly promising. Knowledge about intervention components that target key psychopathological processes in terms of transdiagnostic psychotherapy approaches is urgently needed. We explored the use of smartphone-based micro-interventions based on...
Frontiers in Psychology October 4, 2016 Tomer Fekete, Cees van Leeuwen, Shimon Edelman
A computational theory of consciousness should include a quantitative measure of consciousness, or MoC, that (i) would reveal to what extent a given system is conscious, (ii) would make it possible to compare not only different systems, but also the same system at different times, and (iii) would be graded, because so is consciousness. However, unless its design is properly constrained, such an...