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Journal of Near-Death Studies 2009 Roberta Moore
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies responding to the article, "Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs" by Jones and Ferneyhough.
cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009 Chuck MacKnee 1 citation
This qualitative study explored the meaning and description of profound sexual and spiritual connection among practising Christians. Investigations of the conditions and events that led to these peak encounters as well as the aftereffects of such experiences were also conducted. It was purposed that this research would enhance understanding of sexual and spiritual connection, inform theories of...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2009 Winifred Anne Bruce 3 citations
Mind-body approaches such as mindfulness meditation are increasingly incorporated into health care. Despite a growing interest in mindfulness, its Buddhist philosophical underpinnings remain unexplored in nursing. Without an awareness o f the nondualistic assumptions embedded in mindfulness and Buddhism, interpretations of this Eastern practice are limited. This inquiry engages Buddhist...
IGI Global eBooks 2009 Bruce J. Maclennan 8 citations
This chapter addresses the “Hard Problem” of consciousness in the context of robot emotions. The Hard Problem, as defined by Chalmers, refers to the task of explaining the relation between conscious experience and the physical processes associated with it. For example, a robot can act afraid, but could it feel fear? Using protophenomenal analysis, which reduces conscious experience to its...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 2009 David King, Teresa L. DeCicco 111 citations
A four-factor model of spiritual intelligence is first proposed. Supportive evidence is reviewed for the capacities of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion. Based on this model, a 24-item self-report measure was developed and modified across two consecutive studies (N = 619 and N = 304, respectively). The final...
Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 2009 Wolfgang Achtner 3 citations
SUMMARY 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. This covers Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. It continues in the second part to describe that time is being perceived in the mystical consciousness as eternity which means in this context timelessness. Examples...
Health and History 2009 Mathew T Martin-Iverson
Health& History 1112 2009 159 has to sort through a lot of other stuff to get it.He has some trouble keeping onmessage, often diverting tonon-related areas of psychiatric history. Then, we have to deal with his well-known opinions of the dreaded drug companies who are undoubtedly a part of the history, but could have been dealt with more objectively. I rather enjoyed his interludes into the...
Journal of Near-Death Studies 2009 Simon R. Jones, Charles Fernyhough
Article examining the phenomenological commonalities between Emanuel Swedenborg's experiences and near-death experiences (NDEs). It argues that a distal cause of Swedenborg's experiences was neural changes induced by his lifetime of unusual respiration, in conjunction with a predisposition to temporal lobe seizures. It concludes by proposing a number of empirically testable hypotheses emerging...
2009 Juan Arnau Pitarch
The article analyzes the figure of Indian philosopher Vasubandhu (ca. S. IV), one of the most important representative of the Vijn�unav�uda school of Mah�uy�una Buddhism. After a brief account on the legendary biography of Vasubandhu and other members of his school, the article focuses on the understanding of two of his seminal works: Tri£gi±ik�u and Trisvabh�uvak�urik�u, through the concepts...
2009 J. Jakonen
The American philosopher Ken Wilber has taken on a sizeable challenge by trying to unsnarl the modern world-knot and its secular worldview. In the course of his almost forty years of predominantly solitary study (he has worked outside academia for the best part of his career) and writing, Wilber has produced a body of work that spans from consciousness studies to sociology and anthropology, to...