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Cambridge University Press eBooks March 31, 2016 Richard M. Gale
Throughout history, in almost every society, persons have claimed to experience God or some ultimate reality in the same sort of immediate way that they experience physical objects through their senses. Their experiences have been quite diverse, running the gamut from extrovertive and introvertive mystical experiences of some underlying unity into which the experient is totally or partially...
Journal of the American Academy of Religion March 31, 2016 Andrew Monteith 4 citations
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) spent thirty years advocating for the religious use of hallucinogenic substances. Picking up where Timothy Leary left off, McKenna inspired later generations of Psychonauts (“consciousness explorers”) and continues to do so even today. McKennan religion treats humanity as in flux, with imminent evolutionary milestones rapidly approaching. These metamorphoses will...
March 25, 2016 Todd E Feinberg, Jon Mallatt
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious. How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent...
Cognitive Science March 22, 2016 Jana Speth, Trevor A. Harley, Clemens Speth 9 citations
We present one of the first quantitative studies on auditory verbal experiences ("hearing voices") and auditory verbal agency (inner speech, and specifically "talking to (imaginary) voices or characters") in healthy participants across states of consciousness. Tools of quantitative linguistic analysis were used to measure participants' implicit knowledge of auditory verbal experiences (VE) and...
Psychopathology March 19, 2016 Henriëtte Dorothée Heering, Saskia Goedhart, Richard Bruggeman et al.
Background: Schizophrenia is characterized by positive and negative symptoms, but recently anomalous self-experiences, e.g. exaggerated self-consciousness (hyperreflectivity), receive more attention as an important symptom domain in schizophrenia patients. The semi-structured interview, the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE) [Psychopathology 2005;38:236-258], examines experiences...
International Journal of Health Promotion and Education March 16, 2016 Vera Lucia Moura, Donald Moss
Shamanic practices frequently create hypnotic-like states, with altered states of consciousness, heightened suggestibility, and a perception of an abundance of meaning in everyday events. Jaguar medicine (JM) is a form of shamanic healing with roots in the indigenous cultures of South and Central America. Recent years have seen increasing interest in translating shamanic practices for use in...
Frontiers in Psychology March 14, 2016 Peter Sedlmeier, Kunchapudi Srinivas 70 citations
Unknown to most Western psychologists, ancient Indian scriptures contain very rich, empirically derived psychological theories that are, however, intertwined with religious and philosophical content. This article represents our attempt to extract the psychological theory of cognition and consciousness from a prominent ancient Indian thought system: Samkhya-Yoga. We derive rather broad...
March 11, 2016 James Williams
I argue in this essay that there can be harm due to philosophy that is not directly expressed in violent imagery. The harm is instead a concealed and delayed detrimental effect of an assumption of non-violence in a working model, defined as a picture of a field of enquiry and the methods required to approach it. Theses for the extended mind, as developed by Andy Clark and others, lead to a form...
BMC Psychology March 8, 2016 Ramona Kessel, Judith Gecht, Thomas Forkmann et al.
Decentering, a central change strategy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, is a process of stepping outside of one's own mental events leading to an objective and non-judging stance towards the self. The study aimed at investigating associated mechanisms of decentering. The present study investigated the relation of decentering, operationalized by means of the German Version of the...
Sleep and Hypnosis March 3, 2016 Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
The rare occurrence of the continuation and magnification of dream content, "reality," and "free-wheeling" dynamics (fleeting, poignant, meaningful, and meaningless), intersecting with and interspersed within awake reality and consciousness is here described, for lack of better terms or known conditions, as infra-dreaming, or infra-reality.This term is borrowed from a literary source,...