Cognitive Science
January 2, 2005
Terry Dartnall
One of the arguments for active externalism (also known as the extended mind thesis) is that if a process counts as cognitive when it is performed in the head, it should also count as cognitive when it is performed in the world. Consequently, mind extends into the world. I argue for a corollary: We sometimes perform actions in our heads that we usually perform in the world, so that the world...
Philosophy East and West
2005
Charles Muller
Reviewed by: Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun Charles Muller Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun. By Dan Lusthaus. Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism Series. London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xii + 611. Hardcover $65.00. Western students of Yogācāra Buddhism have...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2005
Amos Yong
3 citations
Reviewed by: Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground Amos Yong Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground. Edited by B. Alan Wallace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 444+ xvi pp. Increasingly, the world's religious traditions are making their presence felt in the science and religion dialogue that has been dominated for a long time by Christian voices. The essays collected in this...
American Journal of Hypertension
January 2005
Robert H Schneider, Charles N. Alexander, Frank Staggers et al.
Psychosocial stress has been implicated in the disproportionately higher rates of hypertension among African Americans. This randomized controlled trial compared the effects of two stress reduction techniques and a health education control program on hypertension during a period of 1 year in African-American men and women (N = 150, mean age 49 +/- 10 years, mean blood pressure (BP) = 142/95 mm...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
January 2005
Linda E. Carlson, Kirk Warren Brown
This study examined the construct and criterion validity of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) in cancer outpatients, using matched community members as controls. Cancer outpatients (n=122) applying for enrollment in a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program completed the MAAS and measures of mood disturbance and stress. Local community members (n=122) matched to the...
Progress in Brain Research
2005
Adam Zeman
The concept of consciousness is multifaceted, and steeped in cultural and intellectual history. This paper explores its complexities by way of a series of contrasts: (i) states of consciousness, such as wakefulness and sleep, are contrasted with awareness, a term that picks out the contents of consciousness, which range across all our psychological capacities; (ii) consciousness is contrasted...
Substance Use & Misuse
2005
Merrill Singer, Scott Clair, Jean J. Schensul et al.
This study suggests that use of embalming fluid as a mind-altering drug has been underreported. Based on a social network recruitment strategy, findings from a study in 2000 of 401 outreach worker-recruited polydrug-involved youth (ages 16-24 years) from the inner city of Hartford, CT indicate widespread (over 80% of study participants had used the drug at least once) and regular use of...
Substance Use & Misuse
2005
Kira B Levy, Kevin E O'Grady, Eric D Wish et al.
This study examined ecstasy use in 30 college students who participated in one of four 60-minute focus groups with other participants who also had a history of ecstasy use. Ten topics emerged in the sessions: 1) pill ingredients, 2) mechanism of MDMA effects, 3) reasons for initiating ecstasy use, 4) risky behaviors and ecstasy use, 5) sexual activity and ecstasy, 6) positive effects from...
2005
T. Smedes
[1] Philip Clayton (Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Claremont Graduate University) is a well-known author among scholars active in the field of science and theology. A well-known translator of some of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s works into English, his most recent works are God and Contemporary Science1 and The Problem of God inModern...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2005
Harald Walach
5 citations
The Higher Self is a concept introduced by Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis, into transpersonal psychology. This notion is explained and linked up with the Western mystical tradition. Here, coming from antiquity and specifically from the neo-Platonic tradition, a similiar concept has been developed which became known as the spark of the soul, or summit of the mind. This history...