The Southern literary journal
March 1, 2001
Mark Canada
7 citations
Phrenology is no longer to be laughed at," Edgar Allan Poe wrote in an 1836 review of Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology."It is no longer laughed at by men of common understanding.It has assumed the majesty of science; and, as a science, ranks among the most important which can engage the attention of thinking beings" (Essays and Reviews 329).Poe, of course, counted himself among...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
March 2001
P Tassi, A Muzet
Consciousness remains an elusive concept due to the difficulty to define what has been regarded for many years as a subjective experience, therefore irrelevant for scientific study. Recent development in this field of research has allowed to provide some new insight to a possible way to define consciousness. Going through the extensive literature in this domain, several perspectives are...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2001
Piercarla Cicogna, Marino Bosinelli
Two aspects of consciousness are first considered: consciousness as awareness (phenomenological meaning) and consciousness as strategic control (functional meaning). As to awareness, three types can be distinguished: first, awareness as the phenomenal experiences of objects and events; second, awareness as meta-awareness, i.e., the awareness of mental life itself; third, awareness as...
Animal Welfare
February 1, 2001
F. Wemelsfelder
This paper reviews the debate that is currently taking place in the field of philosophy of mind on different conceptual models of consciousness. More and more philosophers argue that the explanation of subjective phenomena requires two complementary perspectives of understanding, known as the first- and third-person perspectives. The third-person perspective (ie conventional objectivity)...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
2001
J. Allan Hobson, Edward F Pace-Schott, Robert Stickgold
56 citations
: Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM mentation and between REM and waking mentation. Recent...
Religion
2001
Leon Schlamm
13 citations
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 traditions,...
2001
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
The study of western esotericism finds itself in the middle of a process of academic professionalization and institutionalization2. Before addressing some problems connected with this development, and as an introduction to them, I would like to draw a parallel which may seem surprising at first sight. It is well known that the turbulent period of the 1960s produced, among many other things, the...
Psychopathology
January 2001
P Møller
Duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) might affect the course and treatment outcome in schizophrenia significantly. Looking for potential determinants of DUP, researchers have mostly assessed the initial untreated psychosis in terms of plain duration, not developmental content. The present study provides empirical contributions to the discussion of phenomenal continuity throughout the entire...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2001
K A Dawson
Although psychedelics can induce "cosmic" consciousness through severe distortions of time and space perceptions, little attention has been given to examination of this psychopharmacological property. With the hope of providing an impetus to further research in this area, a case of cosmic perception under the influence of LSD is reported which included the apparent movement of consciousness to...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2001
Todd Murphy, San Francisco, S Blackmore et al.
22 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) in Thailand do not demonstrate the episodes most noted in those collected in the West, but they do show con sistent features. I argue that these features, including harbingers of death, visions of hell, the Lord of the underworld, and the benefits of making dona tions to Buddhist monks and temples, can be understood within the framework of beliefs and customs...