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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Eastern Philosophy"”.
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Sexuality, cakras, and "raising consciousness": Synthesising a Western psychology and an Eastern philosophy
The hypothesis for this dissertation is that (a) there is an increasing call for something called 'raising consciousness', and (b) sexuality and spirituality are integral to the process. It is, however, argued that sexuality in it's relationship with consciousness is incompletely considered in the …
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Leadership Development Through Mindfulness Based Techniques
… A centuries old tradition with roots in Eastern philosophy, leaders in the profit and non-profit world have begun incorporating some of its tenets into their practice. To understand the phenomenological and neurophysiological implications of mindfulness, we examine the latest research and …
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Presencing Absence
… is a 'big-picture' look at the course of Western philosophy and its eventual arrival at ideas that look remarkably similar to the revelations of Guatama Buddha 2500 years ago. I look at the roots of how the West has understood itself and understood "being" through the centuries and at the …
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The influence of Hindu-Buddhist psychology and philosophy on J. D. Salinger's fiction
… and Judeo-Christian values while exalting Eastern values. If this is so, Luce’s remark to Holden Caulfield in <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em> can be regarded as Salinger's basic conviction: “I simply happen to find Eastern philosophy more satisfactory than Western.” But this blunt remark by …
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An Interoperative Phenomenological Analysis of Hindu Psychologists and the Impact of Hinduism on Their Clinical Work
… cultural upbringing, and deeply rooted Eastern philosophy and their conscious and unconscious impact on the way Hindu psychologists practice in the field. The purpose was to take into consideration the four major theories of Hinduism and to assess whether psychologists of Hindu origin …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
… a natural bridge between Western psychedelia and Eastern philosophy and arguably leaving powerful ideas for the 21st century to play with.
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A people-oriented port city : urban rejuvenation: Port Louis
… comes naturally to the human being. According to Eastern philosophy, Earth is the most important element. It comprises matter in a solid state, represents stability, physicality and gravity. Water is the second most significant element and represents fluidity, flexibility and adaptability …
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THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
… orientations are compared to Confucian philosophy principles of self-cultivation illustrated in The Great Learning (DaXues`å>{t) which is considered the first of a set of Four Books (Sishusl`t). The manuscript's structure consists of a brief of three principles, followed by eight steps …
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The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism
… (piety) kung (to acknowledge) li (reason)) in Eastern philosophy, which means distinctions but not separation between piety and intelligence, and that stand between classical theism and “orthodox” process theism. If there is no consistency among biblical, rational and existential descriptions …
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EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ACTIVATED PRESENCE
… to the moment. This is the expanded moment of Eastern philosophy, Christian mysticism and the new physics; what Varela describes as the 'deep now' (qtd. in Mulder 18). This notion of activated presence also refers to, and acknowledges, the collaboration between ideas, materials, artist and …
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Mythical magnitude: Selected short fiction of Marguerite Yourcenar (France)
… ten tales which share a great deal more than an Eastern orientation and whose particular positions in the collection are far from arbitrary. Linking all of the stories is the foundation of alchemical thought and mythical symbolism upon which they are all constructed, and their placement in the …
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Art as a Generator of New Mental Patterns: From an epistemological perspective of Modern Physics, Neuroscience and the Buddhist system of thought.
This thesis draws upon research in Eastern philosophy and neuroscience to argue that art is capable of metabolizing and embodying different levels of reality, and therefore functions as an instrument that can generate states of consciousness. The research and writing that went into this text has …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
… a fluid exchange. I explore the interface of Eastern philosophy and Western art through a contemplative art practice that draws on the philosophical theories and iconography of the Five Elements represented in the Tibetan and Indian Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. Engaging with the natural …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
… enquiry which references both Western and Eastern philosophy as well as art theory and practice with a view to exposing how the concept of impermanence has been constructed within contemporary art and the consequent implications. It is also a practice-led enquiry in which my own creative …
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Contemplation and Immersion: Exploring the Five Elements and Australian Landscape
… a fluid exchange. I explore the interface of Eastern philosophy and Western art through a contemplative art practice that draws on the philosophical theories and iconography of the Five Elements represented in the Tibetan and Indian Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. Engaging with the natural …
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Committed to encounter: Sources of teacher engagement with students in a cross -cultural study of two sister schools in Japan and the United States
… development among experts in Western and Eastern philosophy. I also considered the potential use of CCCRI as a tool for opening and sustaining dialogue within a single culture.</p>
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Reading Bernstein and Critical Posthumanism Diffractively Through One Another: Intra-activity Pedagogy
… egalitarianism education has existed in Eastern philosophy for a long time, and that trans-species egalitarianism education in the post - human era will be achieved by reading Eastern and Western education as a diffraction.
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An Inquiry into the Creative Process of Butoh: With Reference to the Implications of Eastern and Western Significances
… can be identified as mainly rooted in Eastern philosophy, but later expanded to include Western philosophy when Butoh began to develop in a global context. Accordingly, Butoh creative processes are enriched by the use of a variety of choreographic options and by incorporating viewpoints …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
… painting, theater, stamp and coin design, Eastern philosophy, and the two great preoccupations of his late poetry: his cyclical theory of history, set forth in A Vision, and his concept of the proper music for sung poetry. Yeats wrote to Dulac as his closest male friend, and their …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… Arthur Schopenhauer’s understanding of Eastern philosophy. Beckett read Schopenhauer closely in the 1930s, late 1970s and early 1980s, taking notes from his work in the so-called ‘Whoroscope Notebook’ of the 1930s and the later ‘Sottisier Notebooks’ respectively. However, during the …
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