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Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 2008 W W Meissner
Understanding how the brain produces conscious mentation is vital to the prospective integration of psychoanalytic and neuroscientific study of the mind-brain relation. This essay explores some of the current opinions, based on recent neuroscientific research, regarding origins of consciousness in the brain. Areas explored include levels of consciousness, waking versus dream consciousness, and...
Transpersonal Psychology Review 2008 Isabel Clarke
This paper first considers the theory of mind in therapy, linking this with recent developments within Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and other therapeutic modalities current within the NHS as barriers between modalities break down. The themes of different levels or modes of processing, and the centrality of relationship, are picked, up. The cognitive science based model, Interacting Cognitive...
Religion and the Arts 2008 James Morley
AbstractYoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more...
Progress in Brain Research 2008 Rahul Banerjee
The chapter reviews a classical Indian model of consciousness found in the Abhidhamma, a collection of seven treatises in the Pali Canon Tipitaka. The model was based on observations made during advanced vipassana practice, a first-person method taught by the Buddha. The climax of the model consists in the elucidation of 24 'Bridging Relations' causally linking the stream of consciousness, its...
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2008 Wouter J. Hanegraaff 85 citations
Research into the so-called "philosophical" Hermetica has long been dominated by the foundational scholarship of Andre-Jean Festugiere, who strongly emphasized their Greek and philosophical elements. Since the late 1970s, this perspective has given way to a new and more complex one, due to the work of another French scholar, Jean-Pierre Mahe, who could profit from the discovery of new textual...
Time and Mind 2008 Benny Shanon 43 citations
A speculative hypothesis is presented according to which the ancient Israelite religion was associated with the use of entheogens (mind-altering plants used in sacramental contexts). The hypothesis is based on a new look at texts of the Old Testament pertaining to the life of Moses. The ideas entertained here were primarily based on the fact that in the arid areas of the Sinai peninsula and...
Sign Systems Studies December 31, 2007 Jaan Valsiner
For all human sciences, understanding of how the mind works requires a new theory that starts from the assumption of potential infinite variability of human symbolic forms. These forms are socially constructed by the person who moves through an endless variety of unique encounters with the world. A theory of symbolic forms needs to capture the essence of hyperdynamic, irreversible nature of the...
December 22, 2007 Shaun Gallagher, D. Zahavi
Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Phenomenology 2. Methodology 3. Consciousness/Self-consciousness 4. Time 5. Intentionality 6. The Embodied Mind 7. Action 8. How we Know Others 9. Situated and Extended Minds 10. Self and Person. Bibliography. Index
arXiv Preprint Archive December 21, 2007 Michael B. Mensky preprint
Extended Everett's Concept (EEC) recently developed by the author to explain the phenomenon of consciousness is considered. A mathematical model is proposed for the principal feature of consciousness assumed in EEC, namely its ability (in the state of sleep, trance or meditation, when the explicit consciousness is disabled) to obtain information from all alternative classical realities...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine December 19, 2007 Anette Kjellgren, Sven A Bood, Kajsa Axelsson et al.
Background: Increasing rates of psychosocial disturbances give rise to increased risks and vulnerability for a wide variety of stress-related chronic pain and other illnesses. Relaxation exercises aim at reducing stress and thereby help prevent these unwanted outcomes. One of the widely used relaxation practices is yoga and yogic breathing exercises. One specific form of these exercises is...