Teaching Theology & Religion
April 1, 2011
Tom Coburn, Fran Grace, Anne Klein et al.
31 citations
Abstract Contemplative Pedagogy is a new and sometimes controversial pedagogical practice. Faculty often have basic questions about how to implement the pedagogy in their classrooms, in addition to questions that challenge the educational value and appropriateness of the practice. Assembled here are the most frequently asked questions about Contemplative Pedagogy, with responses from six...
Mind
April 1, 2011
Josh Weisberg
3 citations
The idea that conscious states are about both the world and themselves is an old one, tracing its roots back to Brentano and perhaps even as far back as Aristotle. There is, according to this picture, an intrinsic reflexiveness at the heart of conscious experience. In his important and provocative book Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory, Uriah Kriegel approaches this...
Philosophical Psychology
March 26, 2011
Jennifer Matey
3 citations
A central task of philosophy of mind in recent decades has been to come up with a comprehensive account of the mind that is consistent with materialism. To this end, philosophers have offered useful reductive accounts of mentality in terms that are ultimately explainable by neurobiology. Although these accounts have been useful for explaining some psychological states, one feature—phenomenality...
Journal of Neuroscience
March 23, 2011
Carlo Sestieri, Maurizio Corbetta, Gian Luca Romani et al.
545 citations
The default mode network (DMN) is often considered a functionally homogeneous system that is broadly associated with internally directed cognition (e.g., episodic memory, theory of mind, self-evaluation). However, few studies have examined how this network interacts with other networks during putative "default" processes such as episodic memory retrieval. Using functional magnetic resonance...
Routledge eBooks
March 17, 2011
David R. Matteson
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace. . .and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centered on the body.
March 17, 2011
Fowler’s Model
1 citation
The process of spiritual development may sometimes be incremental, but it does not necessarily occur simply by gradual and additive growth. Often it involves crucial periods in which previous frames of reference are challenged by some very fulfilling “peak” experiences, or by experiences of suffering, grief, or crisis. In the previous chapter several models of psychological health were examined...
Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education
March 15, 2011
Mathew H. Gendle
As a field, neuroscience concerns itself with gaining an understanding of how physical processes occurring in the nervous system are related to mental phenomena such as perception, motor control, and complex thoughts and behaviors. As teachers of neuroscience, we are charged with facilitating an understanding of these relationships in our students. Therefore, it seems that an in-depth...
Dance chronicle
March 14, 2011
Mark Franko
6 citations
Kazuo Ohno's 1977 butoh dance Admiring La Argentina is studied as a Bergsonian reflection on “pastness” in performance. As the work questions the absolute quality of the present, it is initially compared with Paul Valéry's concept of La Argentina's dance as existing in the dimension of temporal immediacy. Ohno's relation to La Argentina is discussed as spirit possession, primal identification,...
NeuroQuantology
March 11, 2011
Jalmir Freire Brelaz de Castro
This paper proposes to evaluate the relationship of scientific criteria to parapsychology. It is herein argued that the most effective ways for the discipline of parapsychology to progress, are: a) to face psi, firstly, as a conceptual problem; b) to combine several approaches containing psi in their essence; and c) to try to build a psi “hard core” through a theoretical approach to resolving...
International Journal of Systemic Therapy
March 9, 2011
Eric E. McCollum
3 citations
Efforts to integrate mindfulness meditation into existing Western psychoetherpay models are commonplace. While mindfulness techniques may work in concert with other models successfully, the richness of the mindfulness model of encountering the world is often lost. Using Beckerman and Sarracco's case study as an example, this paper explores some of the ways in which a more full integration of...