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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"states of consciousness"”.
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
There are transformative experiences of altered states of consciousness common to the human condition that exist across cultures, belief systems and appear in both religious and secular literature. These experiences can hold profound meaning to the individuals that hold them and cause tremendous …
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Creative Caprice: Intrinsic Interest; States of Consciousness; Emotion & Practice-led Phenomenological Inquiry
… research project is a practice-led investigation of how strong emotion influences my creative actions. Through the development and articulation of a methodology for facilitating creative activity, the project considers how these emotions determine which intrinsic interests compel me to create …
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States of consciousness: New perspectives on the relation between sleep, cognition and alcohol use in adolescence
Contains fulltext : 140219.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Creativity, altered states of consciousness and anomalous cognition: the role of epistemological flexibility in the creative process
… a question is posed that concerns ‘varieties of creativity’ that have infrequently been explored empirically, although often described anecdotally. This question being: is, and if so, how, is creativity related to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) and parapsychological experiences? This …
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Where Does it Stem From? - Functional Neuroimaging of Monoaminergic Brainstem Nuclei in Altered States of Consciousness: Translational, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) provide models through which the necessary and sufficient neural underpinnings for consciousness can be characterised. Indeed, the study of ASCs through human functional neuroimaging has identified large-scale cortical networks (such as the default mode …
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy …
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Painting as process: a Jungian approach to image and imagination as experiential practice in contemporary culture
… the psychologically transformative properties of painting are explored as aesthetic process and aesthetic product in abstract painting. Consideration is given to precedents within modern culture and the arts in relation to mainstream and marginal practice, along with the concept of the Other as …
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Sleep, Sickness, and Spirituality: Altered States and Victorian Visions of Femininity in British and American Art, 1850-1915
This dissertation examines representations in art of the Victorian woman in “altered states.” Though characterized in Victorian art in a number of ways, women are most commonly stereotyped as physically listless and mentally vacuous. The images examined show the Victorian female in a languid and at …
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The cognitive function of the DMN and its role in consciousness
Background: Whatever mental states one is experiencing, the brain is constantly active and demonstrates surprisingly regular spatial patterns, which are characterised by the presence of intrinsic functional connectivity networks (ICNs). Among them, the default mode network (DMN) has generated …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
The contact of two different cultures in the colonization process produces a zone of cultural mingling that resembles Victor Turner's concept of "liminality" referring to states or persons that elude classification. This study considers the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women …
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The Mystical Orientation of Virgina Woolf: Some General Comments
… Virginia Woolf's attitudes towards the mystery of transcendence, towards mysticism and towards death, first as she shows it in her own person through her diary and through a few comments of her husband and friends. Then, because even a cursory examination of A Writer's Diary shows us how …
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Quintessence of Dust: Cognitive Neuroscience and an Actor's Process
… addresses the subjectivity and intentionality of our consciousness and special as-if states of consciousness, supported by the work of John Searle and Antonio Damasio. The phenomenal feeling of character-model control is discussed and supported by the work of Thomas Metzinger. The paper also …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with …
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The origins of Christian ecstasy: a critical survey.
… ecstatic phenomena analysed? (II) In the light of this, how far are various types of experience familiar to the ancient (non-Christian) Mediterranean world to be und.erstood as ecstatic? (III) How are we to locate pre-Montanist Christianity within (or outside) this spectrum? The whole is …
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Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry
This dissertation traces the evolution of a formalist literary strategy through the twentieth century in both Yiddish and English, through literary and historical analyses of poets and poetic groups from the turn of the century until the 1980s. It begins by exploring the ways in which the Yiddish …
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AIDS education: A social constructionist approach (Immune deficiency).
… to be groups in particular risk because of their unsafe sexual practices. Previous positivist research efforts attempted to understand adolescent risk as a function of their knowledge and a variety of attitudinal variables. While this research provided valuable findings, an understanding …
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Looking For Mr Wednesday: Towards An Odian Philosophical Framework
The thesis explores the theory and praxis of Odianism in order to articulate the fundamentals of a possible philosophical framework underpinning the Odian paradigm of reality. It is argued that Odian magical praxis needs to be understood as a discrete category of experience offering a specific …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent section in my thesis. The transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors are like-wise categorized into separate groups. These separate groups and subsequent sections are Adults at …
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