Book Review| April 01 2007 Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism? Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism?, GALEN STRAWSON and Anthony Freeman. PIERFRANCESCO BASILE PIERFRANCESCO BASILE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Process Studies (2007) 36 (1): 150–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/44797337 Cite...
James L. Pearson, Shamanism and the Ancient Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Archaeology (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2002), ix + 198 pp., $72 (cloth), $27.95 (paper)
A number of philosophers and scientists have discussed the possibility of inseparability between the subject (i.e., the observer) and the object (i.e., the observed universe). In particular, it has recently been proposed that this inseparability may be obtained through the discrete physical universe being filled with the observer's continuous consciousness through quantum evolution with time...
Active externalism (also known as the extended mind hypothesis) says that we use objects and situations in the world as external memory stores that we consult as needs dictate. This gives us economies of storage: We do not need to remember that Bill has blue eyes and wavy hair if we can acquire this information by looking at Bill. I argue for a corollary to this position, which I call...
Spirituality often is conceptualized as a vital, if not essential, aspect of holistic wellness. The spiritual lives of counselors and counselors‐in‐training, therefore, are considered with an emphasis on healthy spiritual practices that encourage mindfulness, heartfulness, and soulfulness.
In the form of the Transcendental Meditation program CAM offers a method of eliminating deep-rooted stress, the efficacy of which has been demonstrated in several related studies. Any discussion of CAM and post-traumatic stress disorder should include a study of its application to Vietnam War Veterans in which improvements were observed on all variables, and several participants were able to...
Much has been written in scientific and popular literature in recent years about the dangers surrounding the recreational use of the drug MDMA/ecstasy. What is little known and understood however is the history of the apparently safe and effective use of MDMA as a therapeutic tool for psychotherapy. In this paper the author explores this history and describes the recent re-emergence of...
The moment of birth is the moral and legal point when human life must be preserved independent of gestational age, according to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (1). Alternative views such as the newly formed embryo or a baby with a capacity for self-awareness were proposed by some of the distinguished members of the council or working party, but the consensus was that birth is straightforward...
The article considers ideas of two truths in Buddhist philosophy, relative truth and absolute truth, according to Tsonkapa's '' Stages on the Path to Bodhi'', Relative truth is the result of ignorance, producing ideas of Ego, Self, which have no corresponding reality. Absolute truth expresses level of mind on which knowledge, that there are no things existing by their own, by their own quality,...