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Homœopathic Links 2009 Marty Begin
A meditation-dream proving, yielding interesting results, was conducted with seven participants for the particularly beautiful and culturally renowned Quetzal bird that resides in the mountainous cloud forests of Central America. Secondly, two cases verify a preliminary idea for the North American game bird in the pheasant family known as the Ruffed Grouse.
cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009 Jennifer Rodrigues 2 citations
This study is an inquiry into the experiences of Shambhala Buddhist counsellors. My interest lies in whether the Shambhala Buddhism paradigm of health and basic goodness and the practice of working with emotions affect counsellors in their relationship with clients, have relevance for counselling practice, and pragmatic usefulness for counsellor training. My question is: does the practice and...
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 2009 Kelley Raab Mayo
Research in neurobiology supports use of spiritual techniques as a beneficial treatment for anxiety. Psychotherapy, including mindfulness CBT and meditation, has been shown to change brain structure. The amygdala-the brain structure responsible for processing emotion and anxiety-demonstrates plasticity, and the purpose of therapy may be to allow the cortex to establish more effective and...
Progress in Brain Research 2009 Lambros Malafouris
This paper aims primarily at two things: The first is to present an overview of the newly developed field of "neuroarchaeology" and discuss its theoretical grounding in Material Engagement Theory (MET) and the extended mind hypothesis. The second is to use the above overview as a basis for advancing some tentative proposals about the role that neuroarchaeology, by placing the mutual...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009 Michel Andre Tarko 8 citations
Spirituality in the discipline of nursing has gained popularity over the past two decades. National and provincial nursing associations and colleges expect nurses to be educated in providing spiritual health assessments and interventions in order to provide holistic nursing care. There is a paucity of research in the nursing literature on the meaning of spirituality from the perspectives of...
Reviews in the Neurosciences 2009 Gerry Leisman, Paul Koch
We demonstrate brain locations appearing to correlate with consciousness, but not being directly responsible for it. Technology reveals that brain activity is associated with consciousness but is not equivalent to it. We examine how consciousness occurs at critical levels of complexity. Conventional explanations portray consciousness as an emergent property of classical computer-like activities...
2009 Christopher Cott, A. Rock
This paper is aimed at facilitating the study of Daoism, a collection of Chinese philosophical beliefs and psychospiritual practices with a history of thousands of years and a living community that stretches throughout East Asia, from a transpersonal psychology perspective. Transpersonal psychologists who wish to embark upon a study of Daoist phenomena must first be cognizant of the often...
2009 John Makransky
Teachers and others in helping professions or social service are taught the importance of listening with full attention, relating to students and clients in their deep worth, and discerning their hidden strengths. They are also cautioned to avoid burn-out. But how are such professionals to access in themselves the capacities of motivation, connection, discernment, and equanimity that are needed...
European Psychiatry 2009 Shyam K. Bhat
This paper summarizes the results of Integral Self Therapy in the treatment of a group of 30 patients with mild anxiety and depression, and explains the steps involved in this novel psychotherapeutic method. Integral Self Therapy (IST) is best defined as a transpersonal, nondual, psychotherapeutic method. It is a form of transpersonal psychotherapy since practitioners of IST incorporate a...
2009 O. Holland, D. Gamez
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the research on consciousness have reciprocally influenced each other theories about consciousness have inspired work on AI, and the results from AI have changed our interpretation of the mind. AI can be used to test theories of consciousness and research has been carried out on the development of machines with the behavior, cognitive characteristics and...