Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
September 1, 2015
Neely Myers, Sara E. Lewis, Mary Ann Dutton
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews collected with meditation teachers and students in the United States, this article will argue that active training in meditation-based practices occasions the opportunity for people with traumatic stress to develop a stronger mind-body connection through heightened somatic awareness and a focus on the present moment that they find to be...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
August 28, 2015
Pieter G.R. de Villiers
This article analyses the experience of divine presence within an intimate divine-human relationship, as conceptualised in Philo’s writings, and compares this experience with mystical passages in John’s Gospel. The article explains their understanding of God and how the union with a transcendent God is mediated. The article investigates this union in terms of an underlying mystical pattern that...
Routledge eBooks
August 27, 2015
Sheldon Z. Kramer
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This chapter establishes Kabbalistic concepts and methods and demonstrates how these teachings are used to heal psychological discord and spiritual deprivation. The mystical dimension can be integrated into everyday life when one follows an inner and outer discipline reflecting these teachings. The chapter explains combining mindfulness-based cognitive therapy which helps to decrease anxiety...
August 24, 2015
J. Holden, S. Avramidis
Due to advances in resuscitation and defibrillation practices over the past decades, people are returning from the brink of death in numbers unprecedented in human history. Of the millions of people who survive drowning each year, about 20% report a near-death experience (NDE): a reported memory of profound psychological events that contain certain paranormal, transcendental, and mystical...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
July 14, 2015
Ava L Vinesett, Miurel Price, Kenneth H Wilson
Objective: Ngoma ceremonies are used throughout Central and South Africa to help people address "difficult issues," including medical illness. They are examples of ceremonies that use strong rhythms and dance for this purpose in indigenous cultures throughout the world. This study sought to modify an ngoma ceremony to make it appropriate for biomedical use and to determine its acceptance and...
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
July 9, 2015
Renata Suchowiejko
The present article looks at the music of Mieczysław Karłowicz from the perspective of Bolesław Leśmian’s philosophical poetry. The aim of the discussion, however, is not to seek parallel themes or musical transpositions but to capture certain traits of ideological attitude, which is founded on the question about the meaning of human existence. Leśmian’s poetry is characterized by profound...
NEXUS The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology
July 4, 2015
Melody J. Devries
With the onset of 2015, globalization is perhaps one of the most dynamic issues concerning the social sciences. It is critical to map all fields of the human/cultural experience that are susceptible to manifestations of globalization in the growing international tourism industry. In this study I have focused on the evolution of the Peruvian Andean highlands’ massive tourist industry, including...
Journal of Visualized Experiments
July 1, 2015
Maryanna Klatt, Beth Steinberg, Anne-Marie Duchemin
A pragmatic mindfulness intervention to benefit personnel working in chronically high-stress environments, delivered onsite during the workday, is timely and valuable to employee and employer alike. Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) is a Mindfulness Based Intervention (MBI) offered as a modified, less time intensive method (compared to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), delivered onsite, during...
Journal of literature and art studies
June 28, 2015
Robin McAllister
The transformational journey archetype begins long before literature in rites of initiation when a child undergoes a journey full of tests and temptations, perilous encounters in an underworld, and visions that transform the child into a member of a tribe.Before this archetype is translated by the written word into literature, the telling of the story is not just the account of something that...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
June 21, 2015
William J. Wainwright
Recent students of mysticism have sharply distinguished monistic from theistic mysticism. The former is more or less identified with the empty consciousness experience and the latter with the love mysticism of such figures as Bernard of Clairvaux. I argue that a sharp distinction between the two is unwarranted. Western medieval mystics, for example, combined the apophatic theology of Dionysius...