Mindfulness
November 27, 2018
Çimen Ekici, Gülcan Garip, William van Gordon
33 citations
Research into the effects and mechanisms of mindfulness training draws predominantly on quantitative research. There is a lack of understanding about the subjective experiences of experienced mindfulness meditators, which may provide additional insights into the effects, processes and context of mindfulness training. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of a novel group of...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 27, 2018
Lorena Lobo, M. Heras-Escribano, David Travieso
148 citations
Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach pioneered by J. J. Gibson and E. J. Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond cognitivism and behaviorism for understanding cognition. The theory started with the rejection of the premise of the poverty of the stimulus, the physicalist conception of the stimulus, and the passive character of the...
Church, Communication and Culture
November 26, 2018
Sara García Sanz, Chinwe Nzewi
This paper is a theological approach to the religious world of Dostoevsky. One of the most important themes for theology in the twentieth century – and indeed at all times – is the connection between anthropology and theology. In the past, this connection was formulated from the perspective of metaphysics and ethics, using knowledge as a guiding principle. In Dostoevsky, the thread that...
Psychopharmacology
November 26, 2018
Steliana Yanakieva, Naya Polychroni, Neiloufar Family et al.
169 citations
RATIONALE: Previous research demonstrating that lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) produces alterations in time perception has implications for its impact on conscious states and a range of psychological functions that necessitate precise interval timing. However, interpretation of this research is hindered by methodological limitations and an inability to dissociate direct neurochemical effects...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
November 21, 2018
R. Jones
. Neuroscientific scanning of meditators is taken as providing data on mystical experiences. However, problems concerning how the brain and consciousness are related cast doubts on whether any understanding of the content of meditative experiences is gained through the study of the brain. Whether neuroscience can study the subjective aspects of meditative experiences in general is also...
Национальный психологический журнал
November 19, 2018
Olga V. Gordeeva
Background. Near-death experience is an altered state of consciousness at the time when the person is on the threshold of death. Near-death experience has a specific structure which includes such elements as extra corporal experience, moving in a dark tunnel, seeing bright light, meetings with the deceased persons, panoramic life review and many others. The condition is quite common nowadays...
Phanês Journal For Jung History
November 19, 2018
Jelena Martinovic
1 citation
C.G. Jung’s work has had a noticeable impact on conceptions about death and the dying experience, as well as on the therapeutic work methods that deal with anxiety, depression or terminal illnesses. This article analyses the reception of C.G. Jung’s work in the United States during the time period 1960-80. It examines ways in which Jung’s concepts were discussed and applied by psy practitioners...
Routledge eBooks
November 9, 2018
Montague Ullman
5 citations
Telepathy appears as one way of maintaining contact at critical points in the management of contradictory needs for distance and inviolability and at the same time serving the inextinguishable need for closeness and safety. The analysis of the dream did support the telepathy hypothesis. In 1960, in the course of the author&s;s last year in practice, he received a grant from the Parapsychology...
Sophia
November 9, 2018
J. Leidenhag
A number of contemporary philosophers have suggested that the recent revival of interest in panpsychism within philosophy of mind could reinvigorate a pantheistic philosophy of religion. This project explores whether the combination and individuation problems, which have dominated recent scholarship within panpsychism, can aid the pantheist’s articulation of a God/universe unity. Constitutive...
What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries
November 8, 2018
P. Bray
In June, 2010, I was presenting a paper at an international transpersonal psychology conference in Moscow.1 As part of the experience I had elected to attend a two day Holotropic Breathwork (HB) workshop led by Stanislav Grof, one of the founders of transpersonal psychology.2 As a simple ritualised process, HB harnesses the innate capacity for individuals to realise their potential for deep...