Time & Society
May 1, 1992
Jose M. Arcaya
1 citation
This paper challenges a central tenet of most traditional theories of memory, namely, that memory is stored materially in the brain. Arguing that the storage hypothesis makes any contact with the real past impossible (since the transcendent experience of remembering is presumed to arise from purely present physical processes), it goes on to critique mainstream explanations of memory by noting...
Social Science & Medicine
May 1992
R R Desjarlais
To date, little attention has been paid to the cultural philosophies of experience which shape human behavior. The present paper contends that culturally constituted 'aesthetics' of everyday life underlies moments of health, illness and healing among Yolmo Sherpa of Helambu, Nepal. The author examines cultural understandings of bodily and social experience to show how implicit aesthetics--from...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
March 19, 1992
Fausto Massimini, Modesto Carli, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1 citation
Unlike somatic medicine, psychology has failed to develop an adequate model of the healthy individual and particularly of the range of variations of normal experience in daily life. Consequently, psychiatry lacks what physiology contributes to pathology in medical sciences. The task of studying normal consciousness should be the concern of psychology, so that a theoretical discipline could...
Oxford University Press eBooks
March 12, 1992
910 citations
A cautious welcome - an introduction and guide to the book, Anthony J. Marcel (MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge), E. Bisiach (Instituto di Clinica Neurologica, University of Milan) ____, yishi, duh, um and consciousness, Kathleen Wilkes (St Hilda's College, University of Oxford) quining qualia, Daniel C. Dennett (Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Massachusetts) consciousness,...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 1992
Charles D. Laughlin
39 citations
Biogenetic structural theory takes an entrainment view of the nature of consciousness. Human consciousness is a function of the brain and is mediated by networks of living neural cells that develop from initial, neurognostic models of self and world. Models interact or "entrain" as a constantly changing field of experience. The entire population of neural models that may potentially entrain...
Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie
February 1992
J F Spittler
In German neuropsychiatric literature there is an established tradition of viewing the disturbance of consciousness as a leading symptom of the acute, potentially reversible organic psychoses. Following the late H. H. Wieck acute organic psychoses which are characterized by a disturbance of wakefulness (syndromes of somnolence, sopor, coma), have to be distinguished from those with preserved...
The Humanistic Psychologist
February 1, 1992
Abstract A history of humanistic and transpersonal psychology is presented as a backdrop to examining both the weak and the strong points of transpersonal psychology proper. On the negative side, transpersonal psychology can be faulted for being philosophically naive, poorly financed, at times almost anti‐intellectual, and frequently overrated as far as its influences. On the plus side, it...
Leibowitz or God's Absence
February 1, 1992
Stephen R. Setterberg
● Consciousness (‘the mind’) and brain states (‘the body’) can seem to be two very different things. Your consciousness has some particular feel (i.e., phenomenal properties). But your brain states seem not to. Similarly, your brain is located in some region of spacetime. But where exactly, one might ask, is the bearer of consciousness? ● On the other hand, consciousness and brain states...
Psychiatry
February 1, 1992
Bruce Greyson, Nancy Evans Bush
226 citations
Most reported near-death experiences include profound feelings of peace, joy, and cosmic unity. Less familiar are the reports following close brushes with death of experiences that are partially or entirely unpleasant, frightening, or frankly hellish. While little is known about the antecedents or aftereffects of these distressing experiences, there appear to be three distinct types, involving...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1992
William J. Serdahely
1 citation
In this paper I compare the phenomenology of near-death experiences to that of multiple personality disorder. The comparison reveals a number of similarities, including out-of-body experiences, the transcendental environment, encounter with the higher self, possible temporal lobe involvement, and antecedent child abuse. Rather than being disparate and unrelated experiences, I suggest that the...