Page 2073 of 2,168: studies 20,721 to 20,730 of 21,671, newest first. Back to the meditation overview
July 1, 2008 Wendy Farley
Schleiermacher found himself caught between oppressive orthodoxy and religion's despisers. As a corrective, he described piety as nondual awareness of God that issues in equanimity and love. This essay examines his understanding of immediate self-consciousness and contemplation as they provide him with a way of describing the interdependence between divine transcendence and the primacy of love....
June 30, 2008 John Dourley 2 citations
Chapter 7 presented evidence that Jung understood the process of individuation to entail not only a return to the unconscious as the origin of consciousness but also an immersion of the ego into the unconscious beyond all difference and differentiation. It is this side of the individuation process that aligns Jung’s psychology with the mystical experience of a loss in a formless nothingness which...
NeuroQuantology June 4, 2008 C. U. M. Smith 2 citations
The introduction situates the ‘hard problem’ in its historical context and argues that the problem has two sides: the output side (the Kant-Eccles problem of the freedom of the Will) and the input side (the problem of qualia). The output side ultimately reduces to whether quantum mechanics can affect the operation of synapses. A discussion of the detailed molecular biology of synaptic...
BMC Psychiatry June 2, 2008 Gian Mauro Manzoni, Francesco Pagnini, Gianluca Castelnuovo et al.
Relaxation training is a common treatment for anxiety problems. Lacking is a recent quantitative meta-analysis that enhances understanding of the variability and clinical significance of anxiety reduction outcomes after relaxation treatment. All studies (1997-2007), both RCT, observational and without control group, evaluating the efficacy of relaxation training (Jacobson's progressive...
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing June 2008 Somporn Rungreangkulkij, Wiwat Wongtakee
The purpose of this study was to examine the outcomes of individual Buddhist counseling interventions for patients suffering from symptoms of anxiety. A single-group pretest and posttest design was used to measure outcomes. Twenty-one patients participated in the study as voluntary subjects, all of whom completed two sessions of Buddhist counseling interventions. The individual Buddhist...
Integrative psychological & behavioral science June 2008 Eric P Charles, Martin Dege
Advocates of many different approaches have, for years, attempted to usurp cognitive psychology's dominance in the field of psychology. Unfortunately, none of these approaches have yet made a convincing case that they could take cognitive psychology's place. Because of its explicit use of the mind-as-computer model, cognitivism gains a false sense of concreteness, and becomes pragmatically...
Ethos June 1, 2008 Emma Cohen, Justin Barrett
AbstractWe report the findings of a programmatic series of studies designed to investigate the cognitive underpinnings of cross‐culturally recurrent forms of possession belief. Possession phenomena are frequently portrayed in the anthropological literature as incompatible with common cultural assumptions and biases guiding Western notions of “self” and “personhood” and as resisting...
Theory & Psychology June 1, 2008 Tjeerd Van de Laar, Herman De Regt 13 citations
Embodied embedded cognition (EEC) and neurophenomenology (NP) are slowly invading cognitive (neuro)science. We provide a short introduction of what EEC and NP are about and an overview of the papers in this special section on EEC and NP.
Theory & Psychology June 1, 2008 Tjeerd Van de Laar 10 citations
In this paper I compare heterophenomenology and neurophenomenology as methodologies for a science of consciousness. I give introductions of heterophenomenology (HP) and neurophenomenology (NP), respectively. Than I briefly relate HP and NP to mainstream cognitive science methodology and to each other. I claim that although HP and NP are indeed different methodologies for studying consciousness,...
Experimental Brain Research May 30, 2008 Catherine E. Kerr, Jessica R Shaw, Rachel H. Wasserman et al.
The scientific discovery of novel training paradigms has yielded better understanding of basic mechanisms underlying cortical plasticity, learning and development. This study is a first step in evaluating Tai Chi (TC), the Chinese slow-motion meditative exercise, as a training paradigm that, while not engaging in direct tactile stimulus training, elicits enhanced tactile acuity in long-term...