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...
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...
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...
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...
Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB, "liquid ecstasy") and its legal pro-drugs gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4-butanediol are gaining in importance as recreational drugs in Germany. The effects of these substances are comparable with those of alcohol or benzodiazepines. Because of the wide availability of GHB physicians are increasingly being confronted with cases of intoxication. This review is based...
Abstract According to our hypothesis presented here, the human mind is a process depending on interactions of masses of mainly cortical neurons connected by biochemical, electrical and quantum factors into a massive system. The consciousness is dependent on the additional communication between particles, in particular between electrons. The Pauli repulsive exchange mechanism and other...
ABSTRACTIn this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on my brief personal experiences of conducting field research on ways in which way a small group of Tibetan Buddhist monks enact a monastic total institution in Ladakh, India. More specifically, I analyze my experiences in view of the relationship between dual and nondual mind, as discussed byHenry Vyner (2002)in Anthropology of Consciousness,...
This review paper deals with methodological and technical foundations of the Operational Architectonics framework of brain and mind functioning. This theory provides a framework for mapping and understanding important aspects of the brain mechanisms that constitute perception, cognition, and eventually consciousness. The methods utilized within Operational Architectonics framework allow...
The feasibility of wave function collapse in the human brain has been the subject of vigorous scientific debates since the advent of quantum theory. Scientists like Von Neumann, London, Bauer and Wigner (initially) believed that wave function collapse occurs in the brain or is caused by the mind of the observer. It is a legitimate question to ask how human brain can receive subtle external...
Flüchtigeres Wild war nie: Körperlos, vermag es jeden Körper zu bewohnen, unsichtbar verwahrt in jedem wachen Augenblick, ungreifbar in seiner steten Präsenz — Bewusstsein. Vom Behaviorismus lange für eine Schimäre erklärt, fand sich Mitte der 1990er eine Gemeinde aus Neurowissenschaft und Philosophy of Mind unter dem Jagdschrei »Naturalising Consciousness« zusammen: Können wir das bewusste...