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Antiquity March 1, 1998 Anthony Sinclair
Had you been a young boy in the 1960s and wanted to try for yourself the psychedelic experience written about in books such as The doors of perception, how would you have acquired the necessary 'drugs'?f-'AIJL DEVEKE~JX wrote to Aldous Huxley and amazingly Huxley replied.Whilst Huxley could not supply, in this case mescaline, he wished him well in his quest, and by his 21sl birthday two small...
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 1998 David J. Lewis‐Williams, Jean Clottes
This brief overview argues that the evidence of the images themselves, as well as their contexts, suggests that some Franco‐Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic cave art was, at least in part, intimately associated with various shamanic practices. Universal features of altered states of consciousness and the deep caves combined to create notions of a subterranean spirit‐world that became, amongst other...
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences 1998 W Buschlinger, G Vollmer, H Walter
Our working assumption reads: Every mental property exhibited by a natural system can be exhibited by an artificial system, at least in principle. Is this true? The paper is in two parts. The first part is explicative: What do we mean by 'natural' or by 'artificial'? When are we ready to ascribe thinking to a system? We show that sometimes behavior is enough, sometimes underlying mechanisms are...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy 1998 Swami Sivananda Radha, Swami Gopalananda
Although we live in a century of great technological advancement, our knowledge about the body is still in its infancy. We see the body largely as a mechanical instrument, which to some extent is true, when you think of the repairs that now can be made: artificial steel hips, bonding plastic to bones, and many more modern techniques. But let us assume that the body is more than just a...
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences 1998 H Stieve
The criterion that pure natural science can only investigate objective phenomena which can be observed by independent observers sets certain limits to pure natural scientific understanding of brain functions. It excludes consciousness and feelings since these are only subjectively accessible and alternatives cannot be decided objectively. The limitations of brain research are discussed by...
The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1998 Piotr Bołtuć
Jackson claims that a person who sees colors for the first time by this very fact acquires a certain knowledge which she or he could not have learned in a black and white world. This argument can be generalized to other secondary qualities. I argue that this claim is indefensible without implicit recourse to the first-person experience; also Nagel’s "what it is like" argument is polemically...
Behavioral Medicine 1998 H Walach, E Käseberg
Mind machines are said to induce relaxation and an altered state of consciousness. The influence of optical-acoustic (OAS) and electrical stimulation (ES) mind machines on general well-being, electrodermal activity, and altered states of consciousness was investigated and compared with pure rest and a placebo. Thirty participants underwent 4 conditions in random sequence: rest, placebo...
Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 1998 P. K. Vedanthan, Lakshmyya N. Kesavalu, Krishna C. Murthy et al. 146 citations
Adult asthmatics, ranging from 19 to 52 years from an asthma and allergy clinic in a university setting volunteered to participate in the study. The 17 students were randomly divided into yoga (9 subjects) and nonyoga control (8 subjects) groups. The yoga group was taught a set of breathing and relaxation techniques including breath slowing exercises (pranayama), physical postures (yogasanas),...
The Innate Capacity December 4, 1997 Diane Jonte-Pace
Abstract NEARLY A CENTURY after William James initiated the psychological study of mysticism with the publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience, Robert Forman has returned to James’s project by issuing a call for a psychologia perennis. This “perennial psychology” would investigate mystical or nonordinary states of consciousness and the transformative processes that produce them....
Philosophical Psychology December 1, 1997 Warren S. Brown
Donald MacKay's description of the embodiment of an efficacious conscious mind is reviewed as a version of non‐reductive physicalism. Particular focus is given to MacKay's analysis of the emergence of consciousness in the capacity for self‐evaluation which results from informational feedback regarding the results of action. Unique to MacKay's posthumously published Gifford Lectures is his...