The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
2004
James A. Wiseman
486 BOOK REVIEWS such a difficult text and producing a good workable translation out of difficult, academic German. Nevertheless, too often the translation reads not like natural, if academic, English prose but precisely like a translation from academic German in which the sentences are overly long and the subordinate clauses tangle and pile up. Finally, while the editors are to be commended...
Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion
2004
Leon Schlamm, Society For Indian Philosophy And Religion
Abstract I identify two problematic strands of Ken Wilber's transpersonal theory. First, I question Wilber's claim that his spectrum model is supported by the materials of all the world's major mystical traditions. I argue that his integral, hierarchical perspective privileges some traditions but distorts others. Drawing heavily upon Andrew Rawlinson's recent, taxonomic study of mystical...
2004
S. Wendel
[1] In his new bookGeburt in Gott, the phenomenologist and German translator of Michel Henry's work, Rolf Kühn, aims at no less than a combination of a transcendental phenomenology and mysticism into a new, non-onto-theological metaphysics. He describes his programme right at the beginning of the book. The pure appearance of God as self-revelation does not occur under alien conditions, but in...
Essays in Philosophy
2004
Massimo Grassia
Our perception of external features comprises, among others, functional and phenomenological levels. At the functional level, the perceiver’s mind processes external features according to its own causal-functional organization. At the phenomenological level, the perceiver has consciousness of external features. The question of this paper is: How do the functional and the phenomenological levels...
The American journal of hospice & palliative care
2004
Xolani Kacela
Healthy religious experience is defined by certain qualities of expression. In an effort to explore the concept of mature religious phenomenology, this article includes descriptions of two encounters from personal pastoral experience. The first encounter shows how a person with an unhealthy religious experience faces death. The second encounter describes an expression of mature religious...
2004
Rainer Schönhammer
2 citations
Many authors provide examples of dreams in which a staircase figures as a setting for floating, flying, falling or dizziness. As is well known, Freud interpreted dream stairs as a symbol of sexual activity. Alternative symbolic interpretations of dream stairs have been suggested by Silberer, Eliade and Ouspensky. Based on a phenomenological analysis of published staircase dreams and reports...
Medical Hypotheses
2004
Yair Neuman
In this paper, I present a case-study that initiates a discussion about the meaning of pain. The case-study concerns a person who was under deep sedation during colonoscopy. The person did not experience pain from a first-person perspective, although pain was evident to the medical team from a second-person perspective. The divergence of pain perspectives raises an interesting quandary. If the...
Neuropsychobiology
2004
T. Murata, T. Takahashi, Toshihiko Hamada et al.
145 citations
Meditation is a specific consciousness state in which deep relaxation and increased internalized attention coexist. There have been various neurophysiological studies on meditation. However, the personal predispositions/traits that characterize the properties of meditation have not been adequately studied. We analyzed changes in neurophysiological parameters [EEG coherence and autonomic nervous...
Consciousness & Emotion
December 31, 2003
Heidi Morrison Ravven
Spinoza speculated on how ethics could emerge from biology and psychology rather than disrupt them and recent evidence suggests he might have gotten it right. His radical deconstruction and reconstruction of ethics is supported by a number of avenues of research in the cognitive and neurosciences. This paper gathers together and presents a composite picture of recent research that supports...
Consciousness & Emotion
December 31, 2003
Nicholas Georgalis
8 citations
This paper argues that there is no such thing as “phenomenal intentionality”. The arguments used by its advocates rely upon an appeal to “what it is like” (WIL) to attend on some occasion to one’s intentional state. I argue that there is an important asymmetry in the application of the WIL phenomenon to sensory and intentional states. Advocates of “phenomenal intentionality” fail to recognize...