August 1, 2018
David Herman
It is the fundamental insight of phenomenology that meaning is first and foremost - not something which we intellectually reflect on. It is not a product of the mind reworking raw, perceptual experiences. Rather meaning, and our connection to the world, are perceptual phenomena. Thus, to understand the ways in which children find meaning demands a turn toward perceptual experiences - how...
Anesthesiology
August 1, 2018
S. Hameroff
Anesthesiology, V 129 • No 2 228 August 2018 A NESTHETIC gases block consciousness selectively, sparing nonconscious brain activities, and thus their specific action could unravel the age-old mystery of how the brain generates, or mediates, consciousness. In this issue, Li et al.1 make a significant contribution to our understanding of both anesthesia and consciousness, showing that an isotope...
Psychopharmacology
August 1, 2018
Masaki Domoto, Hitoki Sasase, Shintaro Wada et al.
5F-AMB is one of the synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) designed to potentiate the ability to activate cannabinoid 1 (CB1) receptors and is abused worldwide. Although inhalation of 5F-AMB elicits serious adverse effects including impaired memory and consciousness, it is not known whether and how 5F-AMB affects the activity of pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region...
Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
July 30, 2018
Jeffrey J. Kripal
1 citation
Abstract After relating a dramatic near-death experience of a Houston woman named Elizabeth Krohn, this essay explores some of the themes of her near-death experience, particularly the invisible presence of a being of unconditional love in a paradisiacal garden and various direct transmissions of some traditional religious convictions. The essay then discusses some of the obvious New Age...
Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca
July 30, 2018
A. Ceciliani
The phenomenological pedagogy has always been focused its attention to the centrality of the subject, on his concrete experience and on the related embodied aspects referred to the consciousness and awareness of the body and action. According with the Embodied Cognition theory, phenomenology is outlining a pedagogical framework defined as Embodied Education. Within this pedagogical approach,...
Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
July 30, 2018
Kevin Healey
Using the grounded theory method (GTM), this article proposes an “integral” model for studying the development and use of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies. Integral models seek holistic understanding by combining third-person, empirical perspectives with first-person, subjective experience. Here, the proposed model provides a comparative analysis of immersive virtual reality...
Kapata Arkeologi
July 30, 2018
Irsyad Leihitu, R. C. E. Permana
4 citations
Gambar cadas adalah fenomena arkeologi yang tersebar di seluruh dunia. Umumnya, seni prasejarah ini terdiri atas berbagai bentuk, motif, dan juga makna. Artikel ini membahas gambar cadas Indonesia, khususnya di wilayah Maros-Pangkep, Sulawesi Selatan. Menurut teori David Lewis-Williams dan David S. Whitley tentang pendekatan neuropsikologi terhadap gambar cadas, mereka mendeskripsikan...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
This chapter explains why and how this research on the healthy mind is being done with Tibetan lamas. It begins with a narrative account of a moment in the summer of 1994, when I was wondering alone through the Chang Tang—a virtually uninhabited and mountainous plateau in northern Tibet. One day, as I was trekking through the Chang Tang, a single lama on horseback materialized out of nowhere,...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
The research presented in The Healthy Mind establishes that (1) the egoless mind is a healthy mind, (2) the egocentric mind is an unhealthy mind and (3) it is possible to empirically study the phenomena that appear in the stream of consciousness. Yet, given the prevailing scientific paradigm of the last century, our findings must be seen as the preliminary findings of a pilot study. Chapter 13...
July 27, 2018
Henry M. Vyner
Chapter 2 introduces several of the subjects that will be covered by The Healthy Mind . It opens by reflecting on the fact that we have, as a species, long organized our individual lives and societies around the unexamined and mistaken assumption that the egocentric mind is a healthy mind. This is the healthy mind assumption. It then introduces the science of the phenomena that appear in the...