Does disruption of prefrontal cortical activity using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) impair visual metacognition? An initial study supporting this idea (Rounis, Maniscalco, Rothwell, Passingham, & Lau, 2010) motivated an attempted replication and extension (Bor, Schwartzman, Barrett, & Seth, 2017). Bor et al. failed to replicate the initial study, concluding that there was not good...
Mindfulness is taking a preeminent role in today’s education system. In the current study the author explored how experienced MindBody Wellness instructors make sense of teaching children mindfulness. The methodology of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis combined with autoethnography was used to interview eight teachers from the United States and Australia teaching children mindfulness....
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a wide range of experiences that occur in association with impending death. There are no published studies on NDEs in general hospital populations, and studies have been mainly conducted on critically ill patients. We assessed the prevalence of NDEs and its associations in a multi-religious population in a general hospital in Sri Lanka. A randomised sample of...
Abstract The Gathas, a corpus of seventeen poems in Old Avestan composed by the ancient Iranian poet-priest Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) ca. 1200 B.C.E., is the foundation document of Zoroastrian religion. Even though the dualistic axiology of the Gathas has been widely noted, it has proved very difficult to understand the meaning and genre of the corpus or the position of Zarathushtra’s ideas with...
AIM: To improve public understanding of the subjective experience of auditory hallucinations and increase empathy towards individuals who hear voices and have other unusual sensory experiences. METHODS: This pilot study developed a new immersive art exhibition, Altered States of Consciousness, which gave members of the public an individualized voice-hearing simulation experience in 2 real-world...
In this paper I will try to systematically lay out and describe the multiple dimensions of the embodied experience of illness, which until recently has been the main focus within the field of the phenomenology of medicine.In order to do this, I will turn to analysis of the nature of embodiment in Husserl's phenomenology.I will argue that based on Hus serl's phenomenology of the body, one can...
이 글의 목적은 의례를 통한 심성함양의 기제를 설명하는 것이다. 의례는 몸을 중심으로 하여 이루어지는 활동이며, 따라서 심성함양의 매체와 관련지어 생각할 때, 그것은 ‘비언어적 상징’에 속한다. 의례를 통한 심성의 함양은 특히 동양적 전통에서 충분히 강조되어 왔지만, 그 기제가 아직 명확하게 드러나 있지는 않다. 몸을 통한 심성함양의 기제는 지각에 초점을 둘 때 보다 분명하게 드러날 수 있다. 이 글은 지각에 관하여 심도 있는 분석을 해낸 현상학자 메를로-퐁티의 관점을 참고하여 지각은 ‘의식’ 이전에 ‘몸’에 근거한 인식이라는 점을 탐색하였다. 메를로-퐁티의 관점에서 지각은 대상과 주체의 어느 한편을 중심으로 하여 설명될 수 없으며, 지각의 사태는 이미 주체와 대상이 함께 참여하는 사태로 이해될 수...
In this paper I compare how Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney interpret Kandinsky’s heritage. Henry’s phenomenology is based on a distinction between two main modes of manifestation: the ordinary one, that is, the manifestation of the world, and the “manifestation of life.” For him, Kandinsky’s work provides a paradigmatic example of the second, more original mode of manifestation, which is free...
First-person accounts of voice hearing are scarce. This research aims to explore the role of spirituality in the sense-making process of hearing voices. Five semistructured interviews explored experiences of spirituality and hearing voices. Qualitative data was analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). Three superordinate themes were identified: need for connection, values...
Abstract Sensorimotor expectations concern how visual experience covaries with bodily movement. Sensorimotor theorists argue from such expectations to the conclusion that the phenomenology of vision is constitutively embodied: objects within the visual field are experienced as 3-D because sensorimotor expectations partially constitute our experience of such objects. Critics argue that there are...