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2006 W. Bodiford
Le present article examine une divinite appelee Matara qui etait a l'origine puissante, mais dont le culte a ete reprime avant de tomber dans l'oubli. Les precedentes etudes sur cette divinite ayant ete influencees par cette repression, elles ont mis l'accent sur son caractere soi-disant heterogene, « combinatoire », peu orthodoxe ou deviant. Apres une breve revue des theories les plus...
2006 M. Bitbol
A Balanced Science of Consciousness: Francisco Varela's Neurophe- nomenology. Francisco Varela's neurophenomenological research program is still ahead of us. It therefore needs some further philosophical reflections in order to be- come fully understood, and to avoid mixing it up with other views. Neurophenome- nology shares so many features with the mind-brain identity theory that it has some-...
Mens Sana Monographs January 2006 Donelson E Dulany
What the title of this article means to me after decades on a university faculty is very broad. It would include topics of my research and writing, of my graduate and undergraduate teaching, and of what I read in the area, including papers that have been submitted to me as editor of the American Journal of Psychology. What I can write here focuses on my research and writing and related...
Explore 2006 Larry Scherwitz, Marcie Pullman, Pamela McHenry et al.
Inspired by a 2,500-year-old Buddhist tradition, the Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) provides residential hospice care, volunteer programs, and educational efforts that cultivate wisdom and compassion in service. The present study was designed to understand how being with dying hospice residents affects hospice volunteers well-being and the role of spiritual practice in ameliorating the fear of...
International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach 2006 C. Allen
The ‘explanatory gap’ (Levine 1983) refers to a gap between physical and phenomenal explanations of consciousness. I wish to show that we can take the gap on board and still go on to develop an explanation or model that is aware of and refers to both sides of this gap, similar to Varela's Neurophenomenology(1996). Also such a model may refer to both sides via the postulation of a descriptive...
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...