Oxford University Press eBooks
October 14, 2008
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
1 citation
This chapter examines the influence of mesmerism and spiritualism on the history of Western esotericism. It explores the relation between science and spirituality and traces the development of animal magnetism from the combination of the notion of fluid and the powers of the mind in science. It discusses the works of Franz Anton Mesmer and his doctoral dissertation concerning the influence of...
Phainomenon
October 1, 2008
André Barata
Abstract Historically, phenomenology started to face the phenomenon of intersubjectivity as an objection to its own transcendental aspiration to constitute apodicticity. In fact, since Husserl’s very influential Fifth Cartesian Meditation, the risk of solipsism threatened the possibilities of a genuine phenomenology of the other. This problem ‘s discussion was continued by all of the most...
ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal
October 1, 2008
Nurlaila Effendy, Johana E. Prawitasari, Thomas Dicky Hastjarjo et al.
2 citations
Abstract.The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a transpersonal psychotherapy using meditation, visualization, and praise method. Subjects (N = 6) were HIV and AIDS patients. Results reveal an increase of quality of life with transpersonal psychotherapy and an increase (based on WHO criterion) of CD4 criterion. Subjects of stadium II and III can not rely on the psychotherapy...
October 1, 2008
M. Collins
Philosopher Herbert Marcuse observed in 1964 that modern people's materialistic and consumer-based lifestyles have resulted in societies becoming more one dimensional, which has contributed to a growing attitude of ‘uncritical conformity’. Marcuse advocated that in order to transcend a one-dimensional existence people will have to engage and actualize their human potential. The increasing...
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
October 1, 2008
Ron Chrisley
Consciousness is often thought to be that aspect of mind that is least amenable to being understood or replicated by artificial intelligence (AI). The first-personal, subjective, what-it-is-like-to-be-something nature of consciousness is thought to be untouchable by the computations, algorithms, processing and functions of AI method. Since AI is the most promising avenue toward artificial...
Journal of Transformative Education
October 1, 2008
Tobin Hart
35 citations
This article explores the concept of interiority as it relates to education and contemplation. Primarily, four general dimensions of consciousness related to learning are examined: presence, clarity, detachment, and resilience. The direct experience of these states and processes are described and explored in light of contemporary research on the neuro-physiologic correlates of various...
International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
September 23, 2008
Maxwell S. Sucharov
Preston's account of Gendlin's implicit as a realm of awareness that is more than thoughts and feelings and that precedes Cartesian dualities defines his philosophy as quintessentially nondual and places his philosophy within the spectrum of the nondual and meditative contemplative traditions. Gendlin's investigation of the relationship between the implicit and the process by which it is...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
September 4, 2008
K Pushpa
This article is based on my own personal experience of having undergone "coma treatment" and being given approximately 37 coma injections between the period 1983-1993 despite the fact that I was not psychotic and was normal in every way. The experiences I had following the injections and the forcible administration of innumerable antipsychotics and drugs have shaped my perspective of what it is...
Quart.
September 1, 2008
Jan Harasimowicz
Both in Greek and Roman ancient times and Judaism, ‘prophetic’ dreams used to have an important political function. A great role was still ascribed to them in the Christian Middle Ages, what can be seen best in the example of the iconography of two ‘founder’s legends’: one of Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome (Filippo Rusuti’s mosaics on the facade, 1295) and the other one of the Franciscan...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
September 2008
James S Gordon, Julie K Staples, Afrim Blyta et al.
To determine whether participation in a mind-body skills group program based on psychological self-care, mind-body techniques, and self-expression decreases symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eighty-two adolescents meeting criteria for PTSD according to the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (which corresponds with 16 of the 17 diagnostic criteria for PTSD in DSM-IV) were randomly...