Journal of Religion and Health
December 1, 2008
Curtis W Hart
6 citations
This essay addresses the familial, religious, and cultural context for the writing and presentation of William James' classic work The Varieties of Religious Experience. The essay emphasizes the importance of the impact of Henry James, Senior, upon his son. This relationship along with a severe cardiac condition contributed to James' taking on and carrying through with his exploration of...
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
November 21, 2008
Robert J. Howell
87 citations
A purely metaphysical formulation of physicalism is surprisingly elusive. One popular slogan is, ‘There is nothing over and above the physical’. Problems with this arise on two fronts. First, it is difficult to explain what makes a property ‘physical’ without appealing to the methodology of physics or to particular ways in which properties are known. This obviously introduces epistemic features...
Progress in Neurobiology
November 2008
Damon J Mitchell, Neil McNaughton, Danny Flanagan et al.
Electrical recordings from the surface of the skull have a wide range of rhythmic components. A major task of analysis of this EEG is to determine their source and functional significance. The hippocampal "theta rhythm" has been extensively studied in rats and its rhythmicity has recently been shown to be functionally significant, per se. Here, we use relevant aspects of the hippocampal...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 29, 2008
Benjamin D. Koen
Chapter 7 builds upon the concepts of unity and oneness, and the dynamics of balance and vibration, to frame the roles that music, sound, prayer, breath, movement, and meditation play in recalibrating one’s being from a state of imbalance or illness to one of health and vitality. Specifically, this chapter explores the physics and metaphysics of sound and music, linking the Heisenberg...
Educational Media Reviews Online
October 29, 2008
Jessica Schomberg
Distributed by Bullfrog Films, PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547; 800-543-FROG (3764)Produced by Freedom Behind Bars ProductionsDirected by Jenny Phillips, Andrew Kukura, and Anne Marie Stein2007, DVD, color, 76 min. This film documents a program to teach Vipassana (Insight Meditation) to inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Alabama. The intensity of the program...
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...