The author reconstructs the theory of F. Varela with relevance to the hard problem of consciousness. This problem was touched by Varela in relatively late period of his work. However, the implications for dissolution of this problem can be found in his earlier works with H. Maturana. Theory of autopoietic systems ties life and cognition together, resulting in natural historical comprehension of...
André Tomlin, The Mental Elf, interviews the Project PERFECT team at the University of Birmingham to find out how unusual beliefs offer philosophers of mind the opportunity to challenge mental health stigma.
This chapter sets out the rationale for adopting a phenomenological approach to the devout life literature. Distinguishing the present approach from versions of the phenomenology of religion dominant in mid-twentieth-century approaches to religion, an alternative model is found in Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul. These illustrate that alongside its striving to achieve a maximally pure...
Although the dream narrative, of (bio)logical necessity, originates with the dreamer, s/he typically does not know this. For the dreamer, the dream world is the real world. In this article I argue that this nightly misattribution is best explained in terms of the concept of mental ownership (e.g., Albahari, 2006; Klein, 2015a; Lane, 2012). Specifically, the exogenous nature of the dream...
Just as the festival offers participants an opportunity to express communal experience, a communion connecting lived-bodies in the celebration, pilgrimage and other forms of spiritual journey afford similar encounters. Along the Camino de Santiago in Spain, towns and villages enact festivals associated with their adopted saints; the culmination of these celebrations associated with the Camino...
Numerous scientific studies are conducted on the neurophysiological effects of meditation practices and on the neural correlates of meditative states. However, very few studies have been conducted on the experience associated with contemplative practice: what it is like to meditate - from moment to moment, at different stages of different forms of practice - remains almost invisible in...
BACKGROUND: Dissociative phenomena have been observed in clinical populations as an independent diagnostic category as well as in non-clinical populations. It has been observed that a person with dissociation has relatively more adverse stressful life experiences than healthy controls. Various studies indicated that stressful life events may have a causative role in dissociative disorders,...
Quite a few cognitive scientists are working toward a naturalization of phenomenology. Looking more closely at the relevant literature, however, the 'naturalizing phenomenology' proposals show the presence of different conceptions, assumptions, and formalisms, further differentiated by different philosophical and/or scientific concerns. This paper shows that the original Husserlian stance is...
Cuando se abre la amplitud de la respiración acelerada, la identidad personal puede sentirse como incontenible y desatada. La identidad personal es apertura experiencial... apertura previa a la mente. Dasein para usar terminología heideggeriana. Lo que suele haber es un entrelazamiento de respiración y respiración aeróbica, entrelazamiento de respiración y qi, entrelazamiento de respiración y...
El deseo es la experiencia de la automanifestación del campo de la conciencia. El deseo surge de la plenitud del ser y del impulso creativo del ser que se despliega. El deseo primordial es el sentido de la automanifestación de la esencia de la conciencia eterna que se manifiesta en el tiempo y en el espacio. El deseo es el corazón dinámico de la existencia vital. La vitalidad es el aspecto...