Communication Studies
March 1, 1996
Lyall Crawford
10 citations
This essay suggests that the perspective of philosophical Taoism may be a means of transforming everyday conversations into instances of contemplation where our ordinary encounters become sites for spiritual practice and mystical experience. A different kind of communicating ability is explored through the awareness of certain principles of philosophical Taoism during the course of our...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1996
John R. Baker
The often esoteric nature of dialogues about "consciousness" which take place in academic circles stands far removed from treatments of the same topic in lower division college classrooms. There, any detailed discussion of the various definitions which have been advanced for this term is likely to lead to frustration on the part of students who have not yet attained the requisite knowledge for...
Contemporary Music Review
1996
Michael Tucker
2 citations
Recently there has been a strong revival of interest in the phenomenon of shamanism — the pre-Judæo-Christian, nature-based religion of ecstatic states of mind described by Mircea Eliade in Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. With its emphasis upon altered consciousness, shamanism offers archetypal visionary insight concerning the nature of the psyche. It has come to be seen to have much...
Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales eBooks
1996
Henri Grivois
3 citations
Drawing on his practice as a psychiatrist, the author approaches madness as an emergent phenomenon and as an event. The beginning of psychosis is held to result from a subjective permeability, which belongs itself to an ecology of the mind seen as a moving being. As an emergent phenomenon, psychosis shows two characteristics which the paper analyses in terms of disturbances in the interaction...
World Futures
1996
Janet Atkinson‐Grosjean
The purpose of this paper is twofold. One is rejecting and deconstructive—functionalism, philosophy of mind, and the modern mindset are presented as interrelated, inadequate explanations of human consciousness and personal identity. The other is accepting and reconstructive—complexity theory and postmodernism are offered as more useful descriptions of “what is really going on.” Modernism and...
1996
Brian D. Josephson
The following few chapters are concerned with the problem of consciousness. Their authors do not subscribe to the conventional view that consciousness is ‘just another problem’, to be tackled in a somewhat similar way to the way that science has tackled problems in the past. They believe, and argue in the following, that including conscious experience within the scope of science will involve...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1996
George Pattison
The language and the symbolism of nothingness, of non-being and of the void inevitably call to mind Asian traditions of religious thought and experience. Indeed, any attempt by the West to go it alone in formulating an adequate account of nothingness would be the height of provincialism. 1 On the contrary, the enterprise of thinking through the concept of nothingness in the context of Western...
Humanitas
1996
Charles Warren Burchfield, Patrick Neal Fuller
This essay explores Eric Voegelin's recovery of pre-modern experiences as the basis of his own theory of knowledge.It divides roughly into five parts: the first distinguishes between Voegelin's "mystical" epistemology and the intentionalist epistemological theories of modernity; the second finds his mystical epistemology to be rooted in experience of faith and love as symbolized by the...
Higher Education Research & Development
1996
Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek, Gildas Le Masson
10 citations
This study surveys the current status of higher education in Cambodia, and examines the influence of a Vedic Science curriculum, which included the Transcendental Meditation program, on undergraduate nonverbal intelligence. The Culture Fair Intelligence Test was administered to 70 students from two institutions of higher learning: the Institute of Economic Science (n = 23) in Phnom Penh, and...
1996
David Lorimer
Since the publication of Raymond Moody’s popular book ‘Life after Life’ in 1975, a good deal of academic research [1] has been conducted into the nature and effects of the near-death experience (NDE), a characteristic type of experience that has been reported by many individuals who have been for a time in a state close to that of death, but survived to tell of their experience, often involving...