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Perspectives in biology and medicine March 1, 1994 Erwin Di Cyan
SOME EFFECTS OF GROUP DRUG TAKING ERWIN DI CYAN* The purpose of this paper is to discuss briefly some aspects of the differences between drug effects when drugs are used in groups as distinguished from their solitary use. The human organism responds to a variety of stimuli. Its response to signals may be physiological or psychological. The latter response includes recollections by (a) retrieval...
Early China 1994 Harold D. Roth 20 citations
This study employs the critical methodology called “redaction criticism” originally developed in New Testament studies, for the analysis of the relationship between two important but overlooked sources of early Taoist thought: theKuan Tzuessays entitledNei-yehandHsin-shu, hsia. Although the relationship between these essays has long been the subject of controversy, the author concludes...
Buddhist-Christian Studies 1994 Susan Ji-on Postal
At the 1992 International Buddhist Conference held by the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies in Boston, the Practitioners Working Group hosted sessions on Christian Contemplation and Zen Awakening: Practice in Both Traditions. The Group found itself in lively dialogue in a room overflowing with committed and questioning seekers. As a response to this interchange, a follow-up weekend was...
Buddhist-Christian Studies 1994 Judith Simmer-Brown
In the 1980s, the Naropa Institute, the only accredited Buddhism-related college in North America, hosted seven landmark conferences on Buddhist and Christian meditation. Papers and dialogues from these conferences were published in Speaking of Silence: Christians andBuddhists on the Contemplative Way, edited by Susan Walker (New York: Paulist Press, 1987). In this decade, the focus of Naropa's...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 Gene Kieffer 5 citations
While many now believe that the near-death experience can, in some cases, activate the kundalini, there is still little understanding of what is meant by the arousal of this power.The awakening of kundalini actually means the reversal of the activity of the reproductive system and the activa tion of another chamber in the brain, which, if all goes well, can lead to enlightenment or...
The Journal of Philosophy 1994 Scott Sturgeon 91 citations
L'A. se penche sur le probleme des qualia, les proprietes phenomenales d'un individu qui font de ses experiences et perceptions, des faits purement subjectifs. Il tente d'en comprendre la nature, et montre que le dualisme âme-corps peut etre evite meme si l'on ne parvient pas a une comprehension des qualia
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 V. Krishnan, J. Kenneth Arnette
J. Kenneth Arnette (1992) seems to believe that verified cases of out-of-body vision are proof of the dualist view that mind is a nonphysical entity that can exist independently of the body.I submit that his view is open to question.Out-of-body sight could be a form of eyeless, yet body-based, perception that goes into operation when, under certain circumstances, the eyes are not functional.I...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1994 J. Kenneth Arnette
In his letter to the Journal, V. Krishnan disagrees with my interpretation of near-death experience (NDEs) in the context of the mind/body problem (Arnette, 1992).Krishnan writes that I consider Michael Sabom's (1982) evidence of accurate visual perception during NDEs to be proof of dualism.Further, Krishnan writes that I have ignored the problems of mind-brain interaction and infinite...
eScholarship@McGill 1994 Patrick Jackson
Henri Michaux first discovered mescaline in 1956. This encounter proved a lasting influence on the work of the writer who, for at least ten years, struggled to circumscribe, then tried to explain the nature of the terrible shock he had received from the mind-altering chemical. The event was so important for the poet that in due time, it brought about a veritable conversion, a total and...
Philosophical Psychology 1994 William Epstein, Gary Hatfield 34 citations
The Gestalt psychologists adopted a set of positions on mind‐body issues that seem like an odd mix. They sought to combine a version of naturalism and physiological reductionism with an insistence on the reality of the phenomenal and the attribution of meanings to objects as natural characteristics. After reviewing basic positions in contemporary philosophy of mind, we examine the Gestalt...