Biofeedback and self-regulation
March 1996
J C Smith, A Amutio, J P Anderson et al.
Nine hundred and forty practitioners of massage, abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), yoga stretching, breathing, imagery meditation, and various combination treatments described their technique experiences on an 82-item wordlist. Factor analysis yielded 10 interpretable relaxation categories: Joyful Affects and Appraisals (Joyful), Distant, Calm, Aware, Prayerful, Accepted,...
Arizona quarterly/The Arizona quarterly
March 1, 1996
Jason Gary Horn
1 citation
JASON G. HORN Figuring Freedom as Religious Experience: Mark Twain, William James, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger ii~T believe the pragmatic way of taking religion to be the JLdeeper way. It gives it body as well as soul, it makes it claim, as everything real must claim, some characteristic realm offact as its vety own." So concludes William James in the final pages of The Varieties of...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
March 1, 1996
John Bickle
14 citations
A number of influences have combined to make reductionism an unpopular position in recent philosophy of mind and psychology. Davidson's Principle of the Anomalousness of the Mental, the multiple realizability arguments of Putnam, Fodor, and others, and attempts to characterize supervenience or dependency as the appropriate nonreductive relation to seek between psychological and physical kinds...
Dreaming
March 1, 1996
Maria Casagrande, Cristiano Violani, Mario Bertini
18 citations
Following the general idea of a substantial bydimensionality of mind, a cognitive psycholinguistic model is proposed attempting to describe how two thinking modalities - named Y and X - may contribute to the production of a dream report. Based on this model, two sets of syntactical-lexical categories were defined whose counts, divided for report length, should indicate the contribution of the...
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...
Libraries and Cultural Resources
1996
Thomas Daniel Ryder
A common strategy in studying conscious states is to compare them with non-conscious states.The thesis extends C. B. Martin's novel instance of this strategy, using the autonomic nervous system (ANS) as the non-conscious partner in the juxtaposition.It is argued that the ANS has the capacity to represent stimulus qualities in a spatial context, to misrepresent, to learn, and to engage in true...
PEARL
1996
Valerie Clark
1 citation
This thesis, which is in two parts, attempts to interpret in moral and spiritual terms those responses to bereavement that are often described as psychological. In part one human development is considered comparing religious, philosophical, scientific and psychological theories and a model of the 'core self is proposed (body, mind and emotions) which responds to social and cultural influences...
Vieweg+Teubner eBooks
1996
Mark R. M. Towsey, Dhanjoo N. Ghista
31 citations
Reading Paul Davies recent book The New Physics [6], one cannot help but marvel at the immense success of modern physics in describing the physical world. Yet that very success leads one reviewer [9] to pause and consider where amongst the successes “may lurk some tiny murkiness destined to become the seed of the next scientific revolution” just as the quantum behaviour of light turned out to...
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...