Journal of the American Oriental Society
July 1, 1985
Bimal Krishna Matilal
7 citations
PROFESSOR DANIEL INGALLS is neither a sceptic nor a mystic. But it is obvious to some of us that he has sympathy for both. It may be that he has more sympathy for the sceptic than for the mystic. In my study of the history of scepticism in India I have often been struck by the following phenomenon: The outstanding and even extreme sceptical arguments are usually to be found in the writings of...
Religious Studies
June 1, 1985
J. William Forgie
Much work on mystical experience has taken for granted a certain view about the relation between experience and its interpretation. This ‘traditional view’ has received perhaps its most explicit statement in Stace's Mysticism and Philosophy. It is a view which is attractive to proponents of the doctrine of unanimity, the doctrine (roughly put) that at the phenomenological level all mystical...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
February 1, 1985
H T Hunt
Recent criticisms of the place and function of "consciousness" in "cognitive science" are considered and rejected. Contrary to current orthodoxy subjective experience during abstract cognitive activity, especially when placed in its natural series with phenomenal accounts of so-called "altered states of consciousness," can provide unique and crucial evidence concerning just that core of...
New Literary History
1985
Steven Z. Levine
13 citations
southern coast of Brittany (fig. 1). In its fantastic configurations of grottoes, needles, and reefs formed by the incessant workings of the wind and waves, Belle-Ile offers as fine an example as any in France of that category of natural scenery that during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries came to be designated as the sublime. It is not the sublime forces and forms of...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
1985
R J Pekala, C F Wenger, R L Levine
State manifestations of the trait of absorption--a trait associated with differential responsivity to hypnosis, meditation, marijuana intoxification, and electromyograph (EMG) biofeedback--were assessed to determine (a) if absorption correlates with various (sub)dimensions of phenomenological experience, and (b) if individuals of differing absorption ability experience different states of...
Perception
December 1, 1984
R. Gregory
Is consciousness sensational inference? The Austrian Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Philosophical Investigations (1953), gives a long, deep, fascinating discussion of sensation and whether it is possible for us to compare our sensations. He also asks whether it is meaningful for a machine to have sensations. The concern is over generalizing from one's own sensation to other...
Dialogue
December 1, 1984
Frank S. Lucash
In order to find out how successful or unsuccessful Spinoza's philosophy of mind is, I will examine what Spinoza says about (1) the nature of mind, (2) its relation to the body, (3) its adequate/inadequate and true/false ideas. In doing so I will see what problems critics say he runs into and then find out if what they say about these difficulties can be resolved. If these difficulties can be...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 1984
Daniel Brown, Michael Forte, Michael Dysart
82 citations
Practitioners of the mindfulness form of Buddhist meditation were tested for visual sensitivity before and immediately after a 3-mo. retreat during which they practiced mindfulness meditation for 16 hr. each day. A control group composed of the staff at the retreat center was similarly tested. Visual sensitivity was defined in two ways: by a detection threshold based on the duration of simple...
Archives of General Psychiatry
June 1, 1984
Henry David Abraham
6 citations
In Reply.— Dr Hoffman's suggestion that one may find many of the visual disturbances that were described in my article1 in non-LSD—using persons is well taken. The diagnosis of the LSD flashback syndrome, like that of epilepsy, is primarily made by carefully obtaining a history. But before drawing such a conclusion, the clinician has the responsibility of excluding the possibility of...
Archives of General Psychiatry
June 1, 1984
Johanna A. Hoffman
7 citations
To the Editor.— I read with interest Abraham's article on "Visual Phenomenology of the LSD Flashback."1The description of visual flashbacks and the apparent reduction in symptoms with the administration of a benzodiazepine called to mind the case of a woman I treated whose major difference from the patients in Abraham's group was the absence of a history of LSD ingestion. This patient had...