Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
October 1, 2011
Linda Mayorga Miller, Terry Lynn Gall, Lise Corbeil
13 citations
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain a better understanding of the subjective experience of prayer with a sacred object within the context of a significant life stressor. Ten individuals, men and women, from the Catholic faith participated in semistructured interviews. Interview transcripts were read thoroughly and descriptive meaning units were extracted and analyzed for common...
Anesthesiology
October 1, 2011
Edgar Alfonso Romero-Sandoval
21 citations
Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire. edgar.a.romero-sandoval@dartmouth.eduA LARGE population of patients concomitantly experiences chronic pain and depression or symptoms of depression (52% in pain clinics, or 85% in chronic facial pain dental clinics, for example).1How these two syndromes coexist, interact, reinforce each other, and/or are maintained is poorly...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
October 1, 2011
Michael Hodges
2 citations
Research Article| October 01 2011 The Claims for Mysticism in The Varieties of Religious Experience Michael Hodges Michael Hodges Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2011) 25 (4): 396–411. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.25.4.0396 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
October 1, 2011
Lisa Miller, Kenneth Miller, John Haught et al.
Moderated by Lisa Miller from Newsweek, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Miller (Brown University) and theologians John Haught (Georgetown University) and Nancey Murphy (Fuller Theological Seminary) discuss the questions Are we immortal? Do our souls exist beyond our bodies? and What scientific evidence is there for mystical experience? from a cultural, historical, and scientific perspective. The...
Irish Theological Quarterly
September 29, 2011
Jeremy W. Blackwood
3 citations
Christian mystical writing expresses symbolically the complexities of conscious experience identified by Bernard Lonergan as ‘differentiations of consciousness.’ In order for the insights of such literature to penetrate theoretic systematic theology, there must be effected a theoretic account of conscious experience that is of sufficient depth to account for the differentiations witnessed to by...
Psychology of Music
September 27, 2011
Frank M. Diaz
133 citations
This study investigated the effects of a brief mindfulness meditation induction technique on perceived attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) and questionnaire. Participants were students enrolled in music classes or ensembles at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States ( N = 132), and were...
Human Brain Mapping
September 16, 2011
Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Sidarta Ribeiro, Guillermo Cecchi et al.
241 citations
Abstract The hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca, a rich source of serotonergic agonists and reuptake inhibitors, has been used for ages by Amazonian populations during religious ceremonies. Among all perceptual changes induced by Ayahuasca, the most remarkable are vivid “seeings.” During such seeings, users report potent imagery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a closed‐eyes...
NeuroQuantology
September 2, 2011
Vernon M. Neppe, Edward R. Close
6 citations
Despite our current reductionistic materialist paradigm allowing explanations of almost all aspects of our experience, certain areas of scientific endeavor are still contradicted. This motivates the need for a new paradigmatic approach to integrate several different scientific disciplines and to postulate a new and comprehensive model, producing a paradigm shift. But this is not easy and has...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
Molly Lannon Kenny, Staffan Elgelid, Bidyut Bose
1 citation
By July of 2000, I was done with my job as a clinician. Having worked for over six years as a speech-language pathologist at one of the country's largest HMOs, I felt burned out, turned off, and depleted. It wasn't that I didn't like the work—I did. In fact, I loved the opportunity to come into people's lives and help them with whatever life challenges brought them to my office. What I had...
Journal of American History
September 1, 2011
Howard Brick
In 1971 Barry Commoner identified the “first law of ecology” as the proposition, “Everything is connected to everything else” (p. 50). This assertion might sum up the “holistic worldviews” that Linda Sargent Wood finds ubiquitous in American thought during “the long 1960s” (p. 6). In this finely wrought book, Wood elucidates holism as a key to the work of five figures: the pioneering ecologist...