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Holistic Nursing Practice 2006 Ellen M Adelman
The purpose of this article is to introduce a new approach that integrates mindfulness meditation practices and Western psychotherapeutic approaches into a holistic program.
Explore 2006 Gary E. Schwartz, Ernest P Schloss
It has been proposed that to understand (1) the evolution of science and medicine, and (2) the integration of conventional, complementary and alternative medicine, it is essential to consider at least eight universal implicit meta-cognitive hypotheses. It has been suggested that these implicit "world" hypotheses can be applied in every discipline of science. The present paper reviews the eight...
Screen Consciousness 2006 S. Stuart
According to Kant [1781/87 & 1929] the most we can say about ourselves is that we are logical subjects of thoughts, necessary for the very possibility of coherent cognition. We look for the self, we reflect, and we find no thing, nothing that is the bearer of properties, and we try to conjure it up in the concept of a soul or mental thing [Descartes 1968], or a bundle of discrete perceptions...
2006 Nissara Horayangura, Suwanna Sath-Anand, Sombat Chantornvong 1 citation
A hallmark of the Buddhist spiritual path is the high degree of flexibility in individual interpretation, especially for laypeople as the guidelines for their practice is particularly vague. In Thai and other Theravada cultures, what has been most widely taught to laypeople is the five precepts and generosity (dana). However, in contemporary Thai society, growing numbers of laypeople have begun...
VCU Scholars Compass 2006 Sangthong Terathongkum 1 citation
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Growing evidence indicates that psychological stress contributes to cardiovascular diseases through complex neuroendocrine mechanisms. Psychological stress leads to several physiological responses including increased heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) as well as decreased heart rate variability (HRV) through alterations in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), specifically...
Sartre Studies International 2006 Joel Krueger 2 citations
In this essay, I argue that Sartre's notion of pre-reflective consciousness can be summoned to offer a general challenge to contemporary functionalist accounts of mind, broadly construed. In virtue of the challenge Sartre offers these contemporary functionalist accounts and the richness of his phenomenological analysis, I conclude that his voice needs to be included in ongoing debates over the...
2006 E. Capriles
This paper gives continuity to the criticism, undertaken in two papers previously published in this journal, of transpersonal systems that fail to discriminate between nirvanic, samsaric, and neithernirvanic-nor-samsaric transpersonal states, and which present the absolute sanity of Awakening as a dualistic, conceptually-tainted condition. It also gives continuity to the denunciation of the...
World Futures 2006 Pim van Lommel 65 citations
In this article first some general aspects of near-death experience will be discussed, followed by questions about consciousness and its relation to brain function. Details will be described from our prospective study on near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest in the Netherlands, which was published in the Lancet in 2001. In this study it could not be shown that physiological,...
December 20, 2005 Matthew R Allen
This chapter employs the case of Akihiro, a transgendered boy who was initiated as a shaman as a 14-year-old, to expose a number of culturally specific factors that relate to shamanism, religion, mental health, and gender in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture. I am particularly interested in how gender informs people’s choices about how to deal with their psychological or spiritual...
December 9, 2005 Dan Zahavi
What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of consciousness. He...