Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
June 11, 2010
Mirosław Kiwka
Bernard McGinn is widely considered the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is a leading authority on the theology of the 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart as well as on various issues concerning apocalypticism. His current long-range project is a six-volume history of Western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God, four volumes of...
CrossCurrents
June 1, 2010
Wakoh Shannon Hickey
6 citations
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique Wakoh Shannon Hickey Twenty‐seven adults are arrayed at the front of a large, sloping lecture hall: some lying on their backs, some upright in free‐standing chairs, some in the tiers of seats bolted to the floor. Most appear to range in age from mid‐forties to mid‐fifties. The lights are dim, most eyes are closed, and except for occasional fidgeting, everyone...
Ethnography
June 1, 2010
Michal Pagis
118 citations
The ‘problem of other minds’ is central to sociological theory and of immediate importance to contemporary research on subjectivity and interiority. How do we cultivate and maintain an intersubjective space during silent, private, experiences? Drawing on Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, this study challenges the common view which regards silence as an obstacle to social relations. The data...
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
April 14, 2010
Gerry Jager, Robert I Block, Maartje Luijten et al.
Objective: Early-onset cannabis use has been associated with later use/abuse, mental health problems (psychosis, depression), and abnormal development of cognition and brain function. During adolescence, ongoing neurodevelopmental maturation and experience shape the neural circuitry underlying complex cognitive functions such as memory and executive control. Prefrontal and temporal regions are...
Psico-USF
April 1, 2010
Fernanda Barcellos Serralta, Fernanda Genro Cony, Zelia Cembranel et al.
4 citations
Na literatura internacional, a experiência de quase-morte (EQM) é avaliada principalmente por meio do instrumento The Near-Death Experience Scale (NDE), elaborado por Bruce Greyson, em 1983. O objetivo do presente estudo é verificar a existência de equivalência semântica entre a versão original da escala (em inglês) e a versão traduzida ao português do Brasil, avaliando os significados geral e...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
April 1, 2010
James E Lange, Jason Daniel, Kestrel Homer et al.
85 citations
Salvia divinorum (salvia) is an intense, short-acting hallucinogenic plant gaining popularity among adolescents in the United States. There has been little scientific documentation of salvia's effects. The popular video-sharing website YouTube has received literally thousands of video-posts of people using salvia. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of salvia use through...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 2010
Beth M Anderson, Matthew Rizzo, Robert I Block et al.
In the United States, one in six teenagers has driven under the influence of marijuana. Driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol is equally prevalent, despite the fact that marijuana use is less common than alcohol use. Much of the research examining the effects of marijuana on driving performance was conducted in the 1970s and led to equivocal findings. During that time, few...
February 16, 2010
I. M. Lewis
First Published in 2004. States of spirit possession, in which believer's feel themselves to be 'possessed' by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions. From Dionysiac cults to Haitia voodoo, Christian and Sufi mysticism to shamanic ritual, the rapture and frenzy of ecstatic experience forms an iconic expression of faith in all its devastating...
Psychopathology
February 9, 2010
S.B. Unnithan, J.C. Cutting
Eighteen patients admitted to a drug dependency unit for opiate detoxification and who had recently used cocaine were asked to describe the experience based on a questionnaire. A comparison was made with 18 schizophrenic patients who completed the same questionnaire. Results showed a qualitative difference in the subjective phenomena described by the two groups. There appeared to be certain...
Oxford University Press eBooks
January 21, 2010
Michael N. Marsh
46 citations
What certainty is there for personal survival after death? Five key authors, critically analysed in this thesis, think that OB/ND experiences offer such assurances. Most OB/ND events follow severe clinical crises profoundly embarrassing cerebral function. At the nadir of brain function, invariably resulting in unconsciousness, authors aver that the escape of soul (Sabom), mind, or free...