The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
March 10, 2015
Ritsuko Okano
3 citations
Kitarō Nishida is the most important and representative philosopher in modern Japan, who now attracts increasing attention internationally. He endeavored to give a logical foundation to the Eastern way of thinking through his confrontation with Western philosophers. The aim of this paper is to recover the modern and intercultural significance of Plotinus’ philosophy in the light of Nishida’s...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
March 1, 2015
Monika Renz, M Schuett Mao, A Omlin et al.
Spirituality encompasses a wide range of meanings between holistic wellbeing and mysticism. We explored advanced cancer patients' spiritual experiences of transcendence. A total of 251 patients with advanced cancer were included and observed (participant observation) over 12 months by a psycho-oncologist/music-therapist. She recorded and documented patients' spontaneously expressed spiritual...
Sleep
February 27, 2015
Pauline Dodet, Mario Chávez, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu et al.
115 citations
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency, determinants and sleep characteristics of lucid dreaming in narcolepsy. SETTINGS: University hospital sleep disorder unit. DESIGN: Case-control study. PARTICIPANTS: Consecutive patients with narcolepsy and healthy controls. METHODS: Participants were interviewed regarding the frequency and determinants of lucid dreaming. Twelve narcolepsy patients and 5...
University of Chicago Press eBooks
2015
Jonathan Garb
This opening chapter follows and critiques the disappearance of the soul in modern philosophy, while calling attention to its continued presence in literature and popular culture and its remarkable revival in recent decades. Especial attention is given to the school of archetypal psychology inaugurated by James Hillman. Dialogue with this school enables a critical engagement with the...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2015
Paul D. Freinkel
4 citations
The author describes and examines participatory knowing, participatory spirituality, and psycho-spiritual growth and transformation as experienced by a group of accomplished singers through their singing and the process of learning to sing.In so doing, his study brings rich contemporary research narrative as evidence of the key elements of the participatory revisioning of transpersonal...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies
2015
Eiji Hisamatsu, Ramesh Pattni
1 citation
The present article will try to show differences and similarities in description about the ascetic teaching and mystical experience of two totally different spiritual traditions, i.e. in regard to the “Jesus Prayer” in the late Byzantine era and “yoga” in ancient India. A prayer made much use of by Christians in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the so-called “Jesus Prayer” or “Prayer of the...
The journal of Japanese philosophy/Journal of Japanese philosophy
2015
Steve Odin
Reviewed by: Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton by Cunningham, Eric Steve Odin Cunningham, Eric. Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton Eric Cunningham’s Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen and the Psychedelic Eschaton is an adventurous, original, and illuminating work that with deep insight undertakes an...
Explore
2015
Vernon M. Neppe, Edward R. Close
We argue that "non-local" events require further descriptors for us to understand the degree of non-locality, what the framework of the observer describing it is, and where we humans are located relative to the ostensible non-locality. This suggests three critical factors: Relative to, from the framework of, and a hierarchy of "to what degree?" "Non-locality" without the prefix "relative"...
2015
Morgan Shipley
4 citations
Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions—a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s—Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in...
Revista Relegens Thréskeia
December 18, 2014
Vladimir Luís de Oliveira
As reflexões que resultaram na produção deste artigo decorreram da necessidade de se investigar as nuances que envolvem a espiritualidade e espaço do sagrado, ao se considerar as experiências extáticas da Índia sobre o Samadhi. Compreende-se que as experiências extático-religiosas não são exclusividade do Oriente, e cada cultura religiosa organiza sua compreensão do espaço à luz de seus mitos....