Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
October 20, 2018
A set of measures of trauma, dissociation, altered states of consciousness, and spiritual experiences was administered to a convenience sample of 100 inpatients in a hospital Trauma Program. The inpatients had an average Dissociative Experiences Scale score of 42.3 and an average Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale score of 6.6, both of which are very high. Both trauma and dissociation...
Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira
October 18, 2018
Urbano Zilles
A fenomenologia de Husserl motivou uma viragem da filosofia da religião, no século XX, através das obras Das Heilige de Rudolf Otto e O sagrado e o profano de M. Eliade. Ambos partem da experiência religiosa concreta, não de conceitos abstratos de Deus e de religião, para fundamentar a crença religiosa na natureza humana. Otto fala do mysterium tremendum et fascinans na experiência do numinoso...
Oxford Scholarship Online
October 18, 2018
Susanna Schellenberg
Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental states. It converts informational input, such as light and sound waves, into representations of invariant features in our environment. Corresponding to these three roles, there are at least three...
October 18, 2018
Poppy L A Schoenberg, David R. Vago
5 citations
Exploration of human consciousness remains a final frontier within basic neuroscience; that is, how the finite biological structure and function of the brain gives rise to the seemingly infinite expanse that encompasses the terrain of the mind. Contemporary mindfulness and other contemplative practices across historical and post-modern traditions involve systematic forms of mental training that...
Routledge eBooks
October 17, 2018
Daniel D. Hutto, Alan Jurgens
10 citations
This paper argues that empathy comes in different forms: it isn’t all of a piece. It seeks to cast light on that variety of forms by focusing on the characteristic features of different forms of empathy, which we take to exist along a continuum. Section 1 highlights the special advantages of thinking of empathy as enactive and exploratory, drawing on phenomenologically inspired analyses of...
Revista Psicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea
October 17, 2018
Elizabeth Pienkos, Louis Arnorsson Sass
5 citations
This paper reviews various perspectives regarding the relationship between language and experience, including the challenges of using verbal descriptions to access subjective experience in psychiatric interviews (in both clinical and research settings). Schizophrenia is a specific case in which the experience of language may be altered, posing unique challenges in the context of the interview....
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 16, 2018
Michał Bola, Paweł Orłowski, Martyna Beata Płomecka et al.
2 citations
preprint
Abstract Transitions between wakefulness and anesthesia are accompanied by profound changes in brain functioning. A key challenge is thus to disentangle neuronal mechanisms specific to loss and recovery of consciousness, from more general effects that are not directly related to the capacity for conscious experience. Measures of neuronal diversity have been recently proposed to constitute a...
Culture & Psychology
October 15, 2018
Ruitong Guo, He Yong Shen, Yan-Cui Zhang et al.
The paper collaboratively probes the diachronic, cultural and psychological resources inherited from the classical heroic myth of China, Kuafu Chases after the Sun. With the conceptual system of Analytical Psychology and Chinese culture, starting with ancient mythological texts, the authors carry out studies on three dimensions of the historical and contemporary images of Kuafu, the conscious...
M/C Journal
October 15, 2018
Evija Trofimova, Sophie Nicholls
3 citations
IntroductionTwo writers, stuck in our university offices, decide to take our thoughts “for a walk” across the page. Writing from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, and Auckland, New Zealand, we are separated by 18,000 kilometres and 11 hours, and yet here, on the page, our paths meet. How does walking, imaginary or real, affect our thinking? How do the environments through which we move, and the...
Neuroimage
October 15, 2018
Christoph M. Michel, Thomas Koenig
The present review discusses a well-established method for characterizing resting-state activity of the human brain using multichannel electroencephalography (EEG). This method involves the examination of electrical microstates in the brain, which are defined as successive short time periods during which the configuration of the scalp potential field remains semi-stable, suggesting...