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Author : Howard R. Jarrell
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780810817593
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Author : James H. Austin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 1999-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262260350
A neuroscientist and Zen practitioner interweaves the latest research on the brain with his personal narrative of Zen. Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend toward spiritual growth the "perennial philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the trend implies a "perennial psychophysiology"—because awakening, or enlightenment, occurs only when the human brain undergoes substantial changes. What are the peak experiences of enlightenment? How could these states profoundly enhance, and yet simplify, the workings of the brain? Zen and the Brain presents the latest evidence. In this book Zen Buddhism becomes the opening wedge for an extraordinarily wide-ranging exploration of consciousness. In order to understand which brain mechanisms produce Zen states, one needs some understanding of the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain. Austin, both a neurologist and a Zen practitioner, interweaves the most recent brain research with the personal narrative of his Zen experiences. The science is both inclusive and rigorous; the Zen sections are clear and evocative. Along the way, Austin examines such topics as similar states in other disciplines and religions, sleep and dreams, mental illness, consciousness-altering drugs, and the social consequences of the advanced stage of ongoing enlightenment.
Author : Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9783447034791
Author : Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190864257
Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as secular techniques. This movement is typically traced to the 1970s, but it actually began a century earlier. Wakoh Shannon Hickey shows that most of those who first advocated meditation for healing were women: leaders of the "Mind Cure" movement, which emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Instructed by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, many of these women believed that by transforming consciousness, they could also transform oppressive conditions in which they lived. For women - and many African-American men - "Mind Cure" meant not just happiness, but liberation in concrete political, economic, and legal terms. In response to the perceived threat posed by this movement, white male doctors and clergy with elite academic credentials began to channel key Mind Cure methods into "scientific" psychology and medicine. As mental therapeutics became medicalized and commodified, the religious roots of meditation, like the social-justice agendas of early Mind Curers, fell by the wayside. Although characterized as "universal," mindfulness has very specific historical and cultural roots, and is now largely marketed by and accessible to affluent white people. Hickey examines religious dimensions of the Mindfulness movement and clinical research about its effectiveness. By treating stress-related illness individualistically, she argues, the contemporary movement obscures the roles religious communities can play in fostering civil society and personal wellbeing, and diverts attention from systemic factors fueling stress-related illness, including racism, sexism, and poverty.
Author : Anne Harrington
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674027337
Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions. Is there any substance to monksÕ claims that meditation can provide astonishing memories for words and images? Is there any neuroscientific evidence that meditation will help you pay attention, think better, control and even eliminate negative emotions? Are Buddhists right to make compassion a fundamental human emotion, and Western scientists wrong to have neglected it? The Dalai Lama at MIT shows scientists finding startling support for some Buddhist claims, Buddhists eager to participate in neuroscientific experiments, as well as misunderstandings and laughter. Those in white coats and those in orange robes agree that joining forces could bring new light to the study of human minds.
Author : James Edward McGoldrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1999-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810836815
...an important contribution...it is difficult to see how the historical argument could be any better presented than has been done by James McGoldrick.
Author : Richard Oster
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810819962
A bibliography of over 1,500 titles on the history and artifacts of ancient Ephesus. Brings together works that might otherwise have been very hard to locate... --CHOICE
Author : Alan David Crown
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810826465
Contains nearly 1,000 new items directly concerned with Samaritan studies written since 1984, retains the alphabetical arrangement by author and the subject index, and supplies a new title index.
Author : James Elisha Taneti
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0810875098
Christian communities in the state Andhra Pradesh of south India and the Telugu Christians in diaspora have passed their stories from one generation to the next by oral traditions as well as in scattered texts. James Elisha Taneti's History of the Telugu Christians: A Bibliography lists more than 700 published and unpublished textual sources related to the history of Telugu Christians from south India, including monographs, journal articles, letters, reports, minutes and the proceedings of missionary conferences, unpublished theses, dissertations, souvenirs, and manuscripts. Taneti's insightful historiographical analysis and comprehensive list of bibliographic sources offer seminarians, historians, and scholars the opportunity to study the religious history of India through the founding and evolution of this community.
Author : Ronald R. Feuerhahn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780810829695
Provides a complete list of Dr. Sasse's writings, including unpublished essays and works about him. All introductory sections are in English and German; explanatory sections are likewise bilingual. Indexes.