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The Oxford Handbook of Meditation November 6, 2019 Louis Komjathy
Abstract Meditation has been and remains a central practice in the Daoist (Taoist) tradition. This chapter examines Daoist meditation, often referred to as dazuo (“engaging in sitting”) and shouyi (“guarding the One”) in Chinese, from the Later Han dynasty to the present. It provides a general overview of the five major forms of Daoist meditation, namely, apophatic meditation, ingestion,...
Psychopharmacology November 1, 2019 Suzanne L. Russ, R L Carhart-Harris, Geoffrey Maruyama et al. 75 citations
Recent research demonstrated the potential of psychedelic drugs as treatment for depression and death-related anxiety and as an enhancement for well-being. While generally positive, responses to psychedelic drugs can vary according to traits, setting, and mental state (set) before and during ingestion. Most earlier models explain minimal response variation, primarily related to dosage and...
Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie October 24, 2019 Jan Perszon
The centenary of the Fatima apparitions that has been recently celebrated and the doubts about Medjugorje prove that the issue of private revelations is still present in the Catholic Church. The study indicates the terminological difficulties in defining these phenomena (discovery, vision, inspiration, mystical experience). It also refers – per analogiam – to a biblical revelation and forms of...
Eurasian Journal of Religious Studies October 20, 2019 V. Kudashov, K. Begalinova, A. Begalinov 1 citation
The article deals with the problems of shamanism and its fate in the context of globalization. Nature is revealed, the essence of this unique phenomenon, dating back to the most ancient religious beliefs and continuing to live in modern conditions. The authors show that in the minds of most people in the past the idea was prevailing that the world is inhabited by many good and evil spirits, and...
Insight the psychological dimensions of society October 11, 2019 Zhydko Maksym
The methodological and theoretical problems for the study of consciousness in psychology, the specifics of changes that occur with the human psyche under the influence of digital technologies are considered. The purpose of the work is to analyze the phenomenology of states of consciousness in the context of the digital future shock and to create on its basis a modern topological model of...
Buddhist-Christian Studies October 8, 2019 L. Lefebure
abstract:This article explores the journey of William Johnston (1925–2010), who was born in the Falls Road District of Belfast in 1925, in a climate of intense conflict. He recalled being born in the midst of terror into a family that supported the Irish Republican Army. He studied in both Ireland and Great Britain, entered the Society of Jesus, and went to postwar Japan as a Jesuit missionary...
Cursed Britain October 7, 2019 Thomas Waters
This chapter shows that the history of black magic in modern times is a cosmopolitan drama. Human movement rapidly accelerated from the nineteenth century. People, goods, technologies, and ideas began crossing the earth at a dizzying rate. Travellers took their magical beliefs abroad and encountered new mysticisms when they got there. Empires regulated their colonial subjects in all sorts of...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation October 4, 2019 Richard E. King
Abstract In the West, meditation has been particularly associated with Asian religions and seen as illustrative of the mystical nature of eastern culture. This chapter explores the impact of the colonial encounter between Europe and Asia. In this context, Asian meditative practices became abstracted from their traditional cosmological, ritualistic, and cultural contexts and reframed in terms of...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation October 4, 2019 Michal Pagis 8 citations
Abstract Sociologists study meditation as a social phenomenon, utilizing the contemporary practice of meditation as a window to larger questions about social life and organization in the contemporary world. This chapter illustrates how meditation serves as a new institution and social sphere that balances the “secular” and the “mystical” as well as “being together” and “being alone.” It...
The Oxford Handbook of Meditation October 4, 2019 Tomer Persico
Abstract The Jewish meditative tradition is a diverse collection of techniques and practices, originating at different eras and exhibiting varying characteristics. In the following a summation of the major trends of Jewish meditation is attempted, following a chronological scheme and aiming to underline the shifts in emphasis displayed by different Jewish meditative paths, from the Bible,...