We investigated the nature of the relationship between experiences of transcendental consciousness and psychological health. In Study 1, three groups with different levels of experience in transcendental meditation (TM) and in the TM-Sidhi program (techniques that have been shown to produce experiences of transcendental consciousness) were studied, using the self-investigation method of Hermans...
In rats tested during their first exposure to a Behavioral Pattern Monitor chamber, acute injections of the 5HT-2 agonists mescaline, quipazine, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine (DOI), 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM), or 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine (DOET) produced an inhibition of locomotor and investigatory behavior during the first 30 min of the test session. This suppression of...
Research in the second half of the twentieth century may finally have succeeded in constraining the boundaries of reasonable discussion about dreams and dreaming. Largely owing to physiological discoveries and psychophysiological methods for the representative sampling of human dreamlife, we now have a body of observations that delimits plausible explanations and theories. For example, we now...
It is argued that a false value assertion is made by referring tòLife' as valuable. `Consciousness' is proposed instead. A `Life' independent deenition of`conscious-ness' is given and the components for a measure of thèlevel of consciousness' are introduced. A brief discussion follows on some ethical problems that arise. Prologue Mankind has based many of its values and judgments on some...
Koch 1990) that outlined a sketch of such a theory. Our aim was not to produce as complete a theory of con-sciousness as possible but to indicate promising lines of experimental work, mainly neurobiological, that might lead eventually toward a solution of the problem. We made the plausible assumption that all forms of con-sciousness (e.g., seeing, thinking, and pain) employ, at bottom, rather...
A recent interview with a 34-year-old man, currently serving a life sentence for murder, revealed a remarkable case of "near-death experience by proxy." The phenomenological features of the experience unfolded typically, with some slight variation in content. The immediate drastic changes in attitude and belief following the experience are described.
The thesis Is essentially an attempt to establish a comprehensive theory of consciousness, being and knowable reality that Is fully consistent both with all the analytic arguments that can be brought to bear In formulating such a theory and with the whole of the relevant scientific and other empirical evidence. It Is considered that such a theory would very probably be an extension of the...
This paper is based on therapeutic work carried out over the last 3 years involving basic or somatic autogenic training at both an individual and a group level. Referring to records gathered from those in autogenic training groups or attending individual autogenic training sessions, we have tried to identify some figures temporelles , as derived from Minkowski’s phenomenology of temps vécu . In...
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...
Introduction 1. How Not to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness 2. Life and Cognition 3. The Representation of Number in Natural Language Syntax and in the Language of Thought: A Case Study of the Evolution and Development of Representational Resources 4. The View From Here: The Nonsymbolic Structure of Spatial Representation 5. Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues 6....