Izdevniecība “Baltija Publishing” eBooks
2018
Yuriy Vintyuk
Thepurpose of the work: to elucidate the features and application of the research approach to the study of consciousness in the educational work with the student-psychologists.The methods that are used in this paper are analysis, synthesis, systematization, specification, generalization.Methodology.The research is based on the works of foreign and domestic scientists, which contain important...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
2018
Ruth L. Richards
Some speak of “higher consciousness.” Or higher human possibility. Here are three areas and information from professionals who explored them. It is up to us to decide about validity. Interesting that qualities of everyday creative living may assist on such paths. Evolution has manifested a series of major emergences over time. Might there be other emergences forthcoming, even during our...
AIMS Neuroscience
2018
Hyein Cho, Wei Dou, Zaviera Reyes et al.
7 citations
High-level cognitions can be triggered into consciousness through the presentation of external stimuli and the activation of certain action sets. These activations arise in a manner that is involuntary, systematic and nontrivial. For example, in the Reflexive Imagery Task (RIT), subjects are presented with visual objects and instructed to not think of the names of the objects. Involuntary...
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição
2018
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
1 citation
During meditation, consciousness/awareness is usually enhanced because of higher attention and concentration, which inter-dependently co-arise thru appropriate interactions between neural signals. Nāgārjuna rejects ‘inherent existence’ or ‘essence’ in favor of co-dependent origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), and that is also why he rejects causality; the entities that lack inherent existence...
Chronic Stress
2018
Francesca L Schiavone, Margaret C Mckinnon, Ruth A. Lanius
To overview the phenomenology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of psychotic-like symptoms in trauma-related disorders focusing on the proposed role of temporal lobe dysfunction. We describe the literature pertaining to (i) psychotic-like symptoms and temporal lobe dysfunction in trauma-related disorders and (ii) psychological testing profiles in trauma-related disorders. We define...
OALib
2018
Kole Harvey
3 citations
In this paper, we are interested in the open-ended development of adaptive behavior by infant humans in the context of embodied, enactive cognitive science.We focus on the sensorimotor development of an infant child from gestation to toddler and discuss what aspects of the body, brain, and environment could allow for the sort of leaps of complexity observed in the developing infant that has...
Lancaster EPrints
2018
Kiel S. Long
This thesis questions how Mindfulness and Mindlessness might be understood, measured and invoked in relation to Human-Computer Interactions. Current designs of user interfaces often follow a design trend, drawing upon familiar layout and icons across a broad range of applications. Designers often try to make the interface easier to understand, familiar, and more intuitive. While the use of...
Religions
2018
Chia Longman
58 citations
This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’. Women’s circles are non-institutionalized, often monthly gatherings, for women to come together and relax, meditate, share stories, partake in rituals, heal, nourish, and empower themselves. Based...
ANU Open Research
2018
Tjanara Goreng Goreng
3 citations
Robert Kegan says that sacred leadership is a particular order of consciousness that applies to people who have navigated their emotional stages of development to become individuals who go beyond the ego to become ‘sacred’ in their thinking and being. They are leaders who motivate and inspire others to follow them. In Aboriginal communities in Australia, Elders have always been considered...
Annals of Palliative Medicine
January 2018
Siddharth Agarwal, Vijai Kumar, Sapna Agarwal et al.
Human body is a biological, open system and maintains itself in the changing environment. Disease state is cured by many medicinal systems for healing. Esoteric healing (through introspective hypnosis, meditation and spiritual intercession) is the system where its believers regard Supreme Being as Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. Such persons take ill health as a boon and pray through...