Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
December 1, 1989
Anthony J. Blasi, David L. Preston
23 citations
Foreword Randall Collins Preface Part I. A Sociological View of Zen: 1. Approaching the study of religion 2. On going native Part II. A Profile of Zen Membership and Formal Orgainzation in Southern California: 3. A profile of Zen membership 4. The physical layout of a Zen center 5. Formal organization and staff Part III. The Zen Teacher: 6. The teacher 7. Daily schedule 8. Interaction with...
September 1, 1989
L. Gilkey
. Many scientists now recognize the participation of the knower in the known. Not many admit, however, that scientists rely upon intuitions about reality commonly attributed to philosophy and religion: that sensory experience relates us to an order in nature congruent with our minds and of value congruent with our fulfilled being. Nature has disclosed itself to scientists—albeit...
Sleep
August 1, 1989
A Brylowski, Lynne Levitan, Stephen LaBerge
A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory. The subject reported becoming lucid and signaling in 8 of the 18 rapid-eye movement (REM) periods recorded. Ten lucid dream reports were verified by polygraphic examination...
International Journal of Neuroscience
July 1989
C H Bick
In 1985 I first reported my observations of stimuli-synchronized changes of EEG spectra occurring in 25 hypnotized patients. Electroencephalographic leads recorded separately for the left and right brain showed a switch of electrical activities from the left to the right hemisphere in right-handed persons. In the following study we changed the experimental conditions, using an EEG brain mapping...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1989
P Tholey
A description of several phenomenological experiments is given. These were done to investigate of which cognitive accomplishments dream characters are capable in lucid dreams. Nine male experienced lucid dreamers participated as subjects. They were directed to set different tasks to dream characters they met while lucid dreaming. Dream characters were asked to draw or write, to name unknown...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
March 1, 1989
G. Macdonald, John L. Cove, Charles D. Laughlin et al.
30 citations
. A biogenetic structural explanation is offered for the cross-culturally common mystical experience called portalling, the experience of moving from one reality to another via a tunnel, door, aperture, hole, or the like. The experience may be evoked in shamanistic and meditative practice by concentration upon a portalling device (mirror, mandala, labyrinth, skrying bowl, pool of water, etc.)....
Japanese Journal of Physiological Psychology and Psychophysiology
1989
Kazuhiko Fukuda
3 citations
In Japan, there is a set of experiences called kanashibari, which is symptomatically identical to sleep paralysis with or without hypnagogic hallucinations. In a former study (Fukuda et al., 1987a), the author and co-workers have investigated this phenomenon by a questionnaire method and have found that among the normal population the phenomenon is apparently more common than has been usually...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1989
V. Krishnan, William J. Serdahely
In his Guest Editorial in Volume 6, Number 3 of this Journal, John White (1987) has warned seekers of enlightenment about what they should not do, but has not said what they should.I wish he had.Another matter to which I wish to draw attention is his statement, citing Da Love-Ananda, that there is a nonphysical reality (Being or God) that is uncaused and infinite and is the source of all that...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
1989
I. Stevenson
This s tudy examines the incidence of reports of psychic phenomena and associated beliefs both before and after the near -dea th experience (NDE). The near -dea th exper iencers in terv iewed repor ted no more psychic phenomena before the NDE than the genera l populat ion. There was a stat ist ica l ly s ignif icant increase following the NDE in the incidence of 14 of 15 i tems examined. The...
Horizons
1989
Michael Morrissey
2 citations
Abstract The interdependence of mind and heart forms the basic dynamism in human consciousness. In modernity, however, this vital duality has often been obscured by the infamous dualism between reason and emotion, whereby reason is reduced to an abstract rationalism and emotion is identified with irrational passions—a view that has ancient roots. Given this confused state of affairs, the...