cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Winifred Anne Bruce
3 citations
Mind-body approaches such as mindfulness meditation are increasingly incorporated into health care. Despite a growing interest in mindfulness, its Buddhist philosophical underpinnings remain unexplored in nursing. Without an awareness o f the nondualistic assumptions embedded in mindfulness and Buddhism, interpretations of this Eastern practice are limited. This inquiry engages Buddhist...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2009
James L. Fredericks
Reviewed by: Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World James L. Fredericks Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World. By Ruben Habito. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006. xiv + 164 pp. The acknowledgments offered by Ruben Habito in the first pages of his book tell quite a story. Among others, Habito gives thanks to Jesuits of the Japanese...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
January 2009
Debbie L Cohen, Nancy Wintering, Victoria Tolles et al.
Experienced practitioners of yoga have been shown to alter brain function, but this case series measured cerebral blood flow before and after a 12-week training program in Iyengar yoga (IY) for naïve subjects. On the first day, each of the 4 subjects listened to the teacher speaking on the history and background of the yoga program while they were injected with 250 MBq of (99m)Tc-bicisate and...
International Journal of Neuroscience
2009
Zhen Qin, Yi Jin, Shin Lin et al.
A follow-up EEG study was conducted on a subject with 50 years of experiences in Qigong. Resting EEG at present showed frontally dominant alpha-1 as compared to occipitally dominant alpha-2 described in 1962. During the Qigong practice alph-1 enhanced quickly and became far more prominent than 50 years ago. Compared with baseline, these activities remained to be higher at rest after the Qigong...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Kevin Fort
In my thesis I discuss and criticize the work of three important philosophers: CD. Broad, Gilbert Ryle, and D.C. Dennett. These three figures serve as reference points, allowing me to frame the discussion of my view that there is an emerging tradition in contemporary philosophy of mind, a tradition which has its roots in the philosophical views of Gilbert Ryle. I'll show that CD. Broad belongs...
Theoria, Beograd
2009
Iva Draskic-Vicanovic
This article presents an analysis of David Hume's epistemological position faced with explanatory gap problem. What did Hume do? Did he resolve the explanatory gap problem or made it insurmountable? The text falls into two main parts: In the first the author tries to show that Hume's attempt to surmount explanatory gap by his analysis of reason's functions was completely unsuccessful. In the...
2009
Timothy E. Kunke
This essay is a contrasting of John Searle's biological naturalist view of the mind with Gilbert Ryle's deconstruction of the problem of mind-body interaction. These two positions are most uniquely suited for this purpose since, together they constitute the best positive theory and criticism of the same problem. It will be argued that consciousness - a feature of human experience which proves...
Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
2009
Wolfgang Achtner
3 citations
SUMMARY This paper addresses three issues. In the first part the relation between consciousness and time is being discussed as it developed in the history of philosophy and theology. This covers Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. It continues in the second part to describe that time is being perceived in the mystical consciousness as eternity which means in this context timelessness. Examples...
Psychology in Russia State of Art
2009
Виктор Михайлович Аллахвердов
5 citations
The problem of consciousness is examined in the article. It is argued that all the existing approaches to consciousness do not explain the role consciousness plays in human life. An attempt of revealing and describing the principles of the mind's work is made. Experimental phenomena observed by the author and his followers, particularly, the tendency of previously non-realized ideas not to be...
Health and History
2009
Mathew T Martin-Iverson
Health& History 1112 2009 159 has to sort through a lot of other stuff to get it.He has some trouble keeping onmessage, often diverting tonon-related areas of psychiatric history. Then, we have to deal with his well-known opinions of the dreaded drug companies who are undoubtedly a part of the history, but could have been dealt with more objectively. I rather enjoyed his interludes into the...