Argument
2016
Piotr Płaneta
Nondual awareness and the state of samādhi in the context of the neurophenomenological research: The aim of this paper is to compare various meditative states, such as Buddhist dhyāna‐s, yogic nirbīja samādhi and nondual awareness (Tib. gñis‐med). The primary sour‐ ce texts I refere to are Yogasūtras of Patañjali, Ānāpānasmṛtisūtra (MN 118), Samādhisūtra (AN 41), The Tibetan Yogas...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
2016
Suzanne B. Hanser
“The Way to Comfort” is devoted to the musical pathways along the journey that soothe and comfort the companion. Hanser presents specific techniques, including breath work, facial massage, progressive muscle relaxation, drummassage, imagery, meditation, mantra, listening, toning, and singing. Hanser provides a list of songs of comfort, and speaks of the properties of the lullaby that...
JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES
2016
Kenryo Minowa
1 citation
In the 1990s, samatha and vipassanā being introduced by Theravada monks into Japan, the interest in Buddhist meditation once again arose. One remarkable aspect of this movement is that this interest was found in ordinary society, rather than in academic circles. Later, the introduction took the form of “mindfulness,” which was less in the sense of religious practice. Much later, after the...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies
2016
Glenn Young
In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard McGinn similarly claims that many studies of mysticism “so emphasize the moment of mystical contact . . . that they neglect the study of the...
2016
Ben Alderson-Day, Felicity Callard
Psychologist Ben Alderson-Day and geographer Felicity Callard share an interest in understanding how interdisciplinary approaches to the brain sciences that involve the social sciences and humanities can help open up new research questions and methods through which to understand pathological and non-pathological states of mind. Both have been interested in the fertility of resting-state...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
2016
Ho Law
Despite the widespread practices of tài jí and mindfulness, their principles are often misunderstood in the West. This paper shows the authenticity and integrative wholes of Mindful tài jí by demonstrating its overarching principles. It also provides an account of the lineage of a Mindfulness tài jí. The paper was based on the workshop at the 19th Annual Transpersonal Psychology Section...
VUBIR
2016
Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi
11 citations
We approach the problem of the extended mind from a radically non-dualist perspective. The separation between mind and matter is an artefact of the outdated mechanistic worldview, which leaves no room for mental phenomena such as agency, intentionality, or feeling. We propose to replace it by an action ontology, which conceives mind and matter as aspects of the same network of processes. By...
Spiritus
2016
Barbara A. Holmes
Reviewed by: African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism by Joy R Barbara A. Holmes (bio) African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism. By Joy R. Bostic, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 179pp. $100.00 Joy Bostic’s work offers unique insights into the lives of black women mystics of the nineteenth century. When most of us hear the word...
Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science
2016
Dennis P. Heaton
The next generation of business leaders aspires to integrate financial success with social and environmental responsibility. A fundamental enabler of more enlightened business practice is a change of consciousness toward the compassion, comprehension, and courage needed to conduct business in a way that leads to sustainability and thriving. This chapter presents the system of...
Philosophy East and West
2016
Owen Flanagan
Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Waking, Dreaming, Being Owen Flanagan (bio) Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually...