Nature Precedings
July 18, 2011
Rodrick Wallace
Abstract Once cognition is recognized as having a 'dual' information source, the information theory chain rule implies that isolating coresident information sources from crosstalk requires more metabolic free energy than permitting correlation. This provides conditions for an evolutionary exaptation leading to the rapid, shifting global neural broadcasts of consciousness. The argument is quite...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 14, 2011
Edward F Pace-Schott
3 citations
Among sleep stages, awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep produce the greatest number and reported intensity of dream reports. Dreaming is a conscious state that lacks the insight and cognitive control typical of healthy waking but allows the remarkable emergence of coherent narrative, vivid visual imagery, strong emotion, and sometimes never-before-experienced elements. Similar to...
July 13, 2011
T. Castro, William Barbosa Gomes
The repercussion of the phenomenological movement on the history of psychology can be perceived by persistent attempts to import eidetic phenomenology features in the systematic analysis of empirical events. In this sense, the concept of phenomenological reduction, described by the philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and technically defined for psychological research, was taken as a mean to...
Oxford University Press eBooks
July 7, 2011
Leslie Stevenson
This essay examines various kinds of unity in our experience based on the idea that these forms of unity are produced by mental processes of synthesis. It suggests that Immanuel Kant was asking questions about the relation between preconceptual and conceptual levels of mental functioning that are still of fundamental importance in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. The...
The Humanistic Psychologist
July 1, 2011
Edward Bonner, Harris L. Friedman
186 citations
Awe is a concept central in much of humanistic and transpersonal psychology, but it still lacks a consensual scientific meaning. Consequently, this article conceptually clarifies awe for its further use in scientific research and theory, as well as in applications such as psychotherapy. Previous understandings of awe and its changing meaning are discussed in their historical context. Six...
Psychological Perspectives
July 1, 2011
Lance S. Owens
9 citations
C. G. Jung stated in 1957 that the visionary experiences recorded in The Red Book: Liber Novus were the foundation of his life work: “My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream … the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.” Liber Novus is now historically placed in a hermeneutic relationship with...
Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
July 1, 2011
Terry Lynn Gall, Judith Malette, Manal Guirguis‐Younger
145 citations
This study explored the viewpoints of 234 participants from various nationalities on the definition of spirituality and religiousness. Several universal themes emerged from the phenomenological analysis of participants' definitions. Spirituality was primarily viewed as an integral part of one's identity and the personal experience of the transcendent whether it is defined traditionally as God...
Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie
July 1, 2011
Karl Heinz Witte
The Unconscious, Self-awareness, and Mystic Experience Self-awareness reveals that every organising function of the ego is preceded by a state of passivity and receptivity. But this state of mind is generally discarded in public opinion, also in psychology and psychoanalysis, and even in theology. Psychoanalysts study this mode of awareness through the effects of the unconscious. The phenomenon...
Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca
July 1, 2011
A. Zhok
15 citations
Phenomenology has been defined by Husserl as "theory of the essences of pure phenomena," yet the ontological status of essences in Husserlian phenomenology is far from a settled issue.The late Husserlian emphasis on genetic constitution and the historicity of the lifeworld is not immediately reconcilable with the 'unchangeable' nature that is prima facie attributed to essences.However, the...
Medical History
July 1, 2011
Andreas Sommer
16 citations
The English music theorist and philosophical writer Edmund Gurney was the first ‘fulltime’ psychical researcher in history. While he was primarily concerned with empirical evidence for telepathy, Gurney significantly contributed to the late nineteenth-century literature on hallucinations in the sane, and the psychology of hypnotism and dissociation. He conducted the first large-scale survey of...