Arizona quarterly/The Arizona quarterly
March 1, 1996
Jason Gary Horn
1 citation
JASON G. HORN Figuring Freedom as Religious Experience: Mark Twain, William James, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger ii~T believe the pragmatic way of taking religion to be the JLdeeper way. It gives it body as well as soul, it makes it claim, as everything real must claim, some characteristic realm offact as its vety own." So concludes William James in the final pages of The Varieties of...
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
March 1, 1996
John Bickle
14 citations
A number of influences have combined to make reductionism an unpopular position in recent philosophy of mind and psychology. Davidson's Principle of the Anomalousness of the Mental, the multiple realizability arguments of Putnam, Fodor, and others, and attempts to characterize supervenience or dependency as the appropriate nonreductive relation to seek between psychological and physical kinds...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1996
Matthew C. Bronson
Neurlolinguistic programming is a powerful technology for modelling aspects of human excellence so that others can achieve similar levels of effectiveness. This article describes how to teach a simple communication pattern called "pace and lead,” derived from studies of the hypnotic induction techniques of such master hypnotists as Milton Erickson. The "Pace and Lead" frame consists of several...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1996
Mira Zussman
Most students step into our classrooms completely innocent of the notion of consciousness, consciousness studies, or the possibility of altering states of consciousness. Our task is to build our courses to meet these students needs at the undergraduate level, and to bring them slowly—and with care—into the realm of consciousness studies. Protection of human subjects surely extends to our...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1996
John R. Baker
The often esoteric nature of dialogues about "consciousness" which take place in academic circles stands far removed from treatments of the same topic in lower division college classrooms. There, any detailed discussion of the various definitions which have been advanced for this term is likely to lead to frustration on the part of students who have not yet attained the requisite knowledge for...
Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review
March 1, 1996
Daniel Halperin
11 citations
An argument is made for the unthreading of two separate, if commonly intertwined, elements of spirit possession prac tices. The term "trance-possession" is frequently employed to designate either of these concepts, implying that trance and possession are essentially synonymous in nature. Yet the psychophysiologically altered states of consciousness known as trance constitute something...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
February 1, 1996
Noboru Hatotani
49 citations
Reviewing the development of concepts of 'atypical' psychoses in European countries and in the United States shows that there are various terminologies which are given to a group of psychoses unclassifiable within Kraepelinian dichotomy. Bouffée délirante (French school), cycloid psychoses (Leonhard, Perris), reactive psychoses (Scandinavian school) and acute schizoaffective psychoses (Kasanin)...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
February 1, 1996
Charles S. Grob, Dennis J. Mckenna, James C. Callaway et al.
333 citations
A multinational, collaborative, biomedical investigation of the effects of hoasca (ayahuasca), a potent concoction of plant hallucinogens, was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon during the summer of 1993. This report describes the psychological assessment of 15 long-term members of a syncretic church that utilizes hoasca as a legal, psychoactive sacrament as well as 15 matched controls with no...
Vieweg+Teubner eBooks
1996
Raymond Gauthier
There is a growing scientific interest in the relationships among matter, mind and consciousness. A rapidly increasing body of reliable experimental results exists in several areas of parapsychology and non-conventional medicine. Many of these results have not found a satisfactory scientific explanation or explanations in terms of conventional scientific theories. (See the section on the Role...
UWA Profiles and Research Repository
1996
Vanessa Enrica Evangelista
[Truncated] This thesis examines the representation of bodies in three twentieth-century autobiographies: Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf, The Lover by Marguerite Duras and Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. In particular, there is a focus on metaphors of physiological sickness and fatigue, aging, depression and desire in a reading of these three texts. One reason for such a pathological...