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Scriptura June 12, 2013 Celia E.T. Kourie 3 citations
The methodological diversity in biblical hermeneutics that has taken place during the last few decades has effected a shift of such magnitude, that scholars are still catching their breath. New methods of interpreting scripture continue to come to the fore. There is a major move from a mechanistic to a holistic paradigm, from within which scripture emerges as life-giving and transformative....
Literator June 4, 2013 M. Sienaert
The aim of this article is twofold: • To postulate the Buddhist notion of selflessness as central to the art and writing of Breyten Breytenbach. • To provide an overview of the philosophy this implies and of the way in which it offers a reading of the Breytenbach-oeuvre. The Buddhist concept of selflessness as expressed in the work of Breytenbach is by way of contrast firstly set against the...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence June 1, 2013 Robert M. Hallock, Andrew Dean, Zachary A Knecht et al.
Recreational usage and attitudes toward psilocybin-containing hallucinogenic mushrooms among college students are seldom explored. We surveyed 882 randomly selected undergraduates at Skidmore College in upstate New York and quantified whether participants had ever used psilocybin mushrooms, their attitudes toward the drug, and polydrug use. There were 409 responses and 29.5% of the sample...
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks May 27, 2013
This paper addresses three issues. In the first part the relation between consciousness and time is being discussed as it developed in the history of philosophy and theology. It covers Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. It continues in the second part to describe that time it is being perceived in the mystical consciousness as eternity which means in this context timelessness. Examples from...
University of Chicago Press eBooks March 29, 2013 Jonathan Garb
This chapter argues that shamanic trance often seems in contexts of a markedly nomian nature. The Hasidic movement can be shown as a prime example of the intimate link between trance experience and nomian practice. The placement of trance within a graduated path explains the prevalence of the rabbinic ladder of ethical and nomian progression in Kabbalistic texts on trance. The nomian practice...
March 29, 2013 Alex Owen
Although occultism could be directed toward ends other than mystical union with the divine, both occultism and mysticism were predicated on the authenticity and broader relevance of the manifestations of interiority. “Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” sometimes called Astral Projection or, more simply, Astral Travel, involved magicians in an immediate and firsthand exploration of the Astral...
Science as Culture March 12, 2013 Jennifer Burwell 9 citations
The language through which scientific advancements are relayed reflects specific social, political, and cultural needs and expectations, as well as specific constellations of hopes and anxieties. Constructions and applications of atomic discourse provide a material touchstone that is no less tangible than any other aspect of scientific enquiry. The 1970s New Age movement saw the deployment of...
March 5, 2013 P. Pérez
ABSTRACT The aim of this review is to illustrate through a case tried, the difficulties encountered while dealing with patients’ special cultures and beliefs, which require a culture assessment, given its special features. Also, this review aims at providing basic tools for understanding and analyzing the impact of the cultural environment. In the event that a health professional stands in...
Spiritus March 1, 2013 Douglas E. Christie
Contact Douglas E. Christie In Henry David Thoreau’s account of his journey up Mt. Ktaadn, originally published in The Maine Woods in 1864, there is a particular moment when the usual categories for describing experience seem to fall short, when language itself strains under the weight of trying to encompass the experience: “What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries!—Think...
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics March 1, 2013 Imants Vilks
The article is a short rewiev about one particular but important and essential question in the field of AI: the consciousness. The main idea is to cast away non-scientific pronouncements about mystics and impossibility in the field. To clear up the basic notions (emergence) and define the main theme - consciousness. The article proposes temporary definition of consciousness, consciousness...