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Alternative Medicine Alternative Therapies
1,274 wordsAlternative medicine, also known as alternative therapies, lie outside the realm of conventional medicine. An alternative therapy is any intervention that: is not reimbursable by most health insurance providers in the United States, is not well supported by scientific tests establishing safety and effectiveness, and is not taught by most medical schools in the United States. They are also called adjunctive, unconventional, or unorthodox therapies. There are many general areas of alternative medi...
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1,408 wordsBuddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha (the enlightened one), in southern Nepal in the fifth and sixth centuries B. C. Buddhism teaches that meditation and the practice of good religious and moral behavior can lead to nirvana. The teachings of the Buddha have, to this day, been passed down from teacher to student. Around 475 A. D. one of these teachers, Bodhidharma, traveled from India to China and introduced the teachings of the Buddha there. In China Buddhism mingled w...
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Deep Throat First Person
5,031 wordsWHAT DOES MYSTICISM HAVE TO TEACH US ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS? Revised version of the paper delivered to "Towards a Science of Consciousness 1996 (Tucson II) April 1996 [Draft for Tucson II Conference Proceedings] Revised version appears in JCS, 5, No. 2 (1998), pp. 185 - 201 Robert K. C. Forman, Program in Religion, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Email: In this article I would like to bring the findings of my somewhat unusual but increasingly accepted field mysticism...
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Helps Buddhists Meditation Helps Mind
892 wordsMeditation is very difficult to describe and can only truly be explained once experienced. It is the practice of mental concentration leading ultimately through a sequence of stages to the final goal of spiritual freedom, nirvana. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to free ourselves from the delusion and thereby put an end to both ignorance and craving. The Buddhists describe the culminating trance-like state as transient; final Nirvana requires the insight of wisdom. The exercises that are m...
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1,162 wordsOriginally, my plan was to spend three days in Oklahoma practicing yoga two to three times a day and spend at least a couple of hours a day in meditation. The first day went alright for a little while. I arose at ten oclock or so and began with an hour and forty-five minute session with kris and meditation. That yielded a wonderful, relaxed feeling. Afterwards, I was inspired to take a rare cold shower. Throughout the rest of the day I attempted short meditations. My problems with this were that...
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989 wordsPsychedelic Yoga The Application of Yoga Meditation Techniques to the Use of Psychedelic Sacraments By Sri Brahmarishi Naked The fact that psychedelic drugs induce a greater sensitivity to subtle spiritual and psychic energies, and speed up the influx of impressions from deeper levels of consciousness, raises the immediate question of how these energies can be properly understood and handled. Obviously, if these energies are not guided, they can do more harm than good. The application of traditi...
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Meditations On First Philosophy Clear And Distinct
1,157 wordsAn Enquiry on Human Understanding Rene Descartes is considered to be the initiator of methodological skepticism, the principles of which he described in his books, such as Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method. The book Meditations on First Philosophy consists of 6 meditations. It begins with Descartes calling into doubt all beliefs in things which are not absolutely certain, and then going on trying to reveal what can be known for sure. The First Meditation titled Concerni...
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Mind And Body Clear And Distinct
1,868 wordsPhilosophy Rene Descartes was an advocate of Dualism, which is a philosophy that states that the world is made up of two elemental categories that are incompatible, such as mind and body, which always exist separately. He wrote his Meditations with two central issues in mind: Proving the existence of God and proving the immortality of the soul through natural reason. The Meditations are divided into six separate sections that focus on different parts of Descartes argument. The first Meditation f...
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Mind And Body Clear And Distinct
1,870 wordsDescartes Descartes relation of the mind and the body is circled around three topics: mind body dualism, proofs for the real distinction between mind and body, and two way causal interaction. Descartes in Meditation II concludes that he is in essence a thinking thing (res cogitates), and that it is possible that he exists without a body. He recognizes, however, that to conclude from this that his mind is really distinct from his body would be fallacious. The Stoic paradox of the masked man illus...
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Mind And Body Clear And Distinct
2,264 wordsDescartes Descartes relation of the mind and the body is circles around three topics: mind body dualism, proofs for the real distinction between mind and body, and two way causal interaction. Descartes in Meditation II concludes that he is in essence a thinking thing (res cogitates), and that it is possible that he exists without a body. He recognizes, however, that to conclude from this that his mind is really distinct from his body would be fallacious. The Stoic paradox of the masked man illus...
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Church And State Zen Buddhism
1,854 wordsIn recent years Christians have shown increasing interest in Buddhism, an interest, I think, which doesnt arise so much from academic or neighborly curiosity, nor from any dissatisfaction with Christianity, but instead stems from a desire to return to older forms of Christian worship forms that included the various methods of meditation that are still followed in Buddhism. Buddhisms history is such that, having been founded in a preliterate time and place, it was spread by word of mouth and neve...
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Mind And Body Piece Of Wax
2,266 wordsDescartes overall objective in the Meditations is to question knowledge. To explore such issues as the existence of God and the separation of mind and body, it was important for him to distinguish what we can know as truth. He believed that reason as opposed to experience was the source for discovering what is of absolute certainty. The first meditation acts as a foundation for all those that follow. Here Descartes discerns between mere opinion and strict absolute certainty. To make this conside...
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Existence Of God Book Of Genesis
1,561 wordsThe way Descartes chose to write this piece literature captivated me. Descartes was a very intelligent man who wanted to make sense of the world he lived in. The format he used was unusual. It seems to me that he may have used this format, which is a replication of the book of Genesis in the Bible, to have a deeper and more profound impact on the reader. There are many similarities between Descartes Meditations and the first book of the Bible, Genesis. For example, Descartes Meditations was writ...
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Clear And Distinct Taj Mahal
4,567 wordsHow Does Descartes Try To Extricate Himself How Does Descartes Try To Extricate Himself From The Sceptical Doubts That He Has Raised? Does He Succeed? [All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken fromthe 1995 Everyman edition] In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has called the project of Pure Enquiry to discover certain, indubitable foundations for knowledge. By subjecting everything to doubt Descartes hoped to discover whatever was immune to it...
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G D Chapter 1
1,923 wordsI know of a story where a 12 year old boy secretly studied the Kabbalah and meditation under a rabbi. So do not worry, you are in like company (Wallace). Mystical traditions hold a secret that not everyone can experience. Stories can be read, pictures can be seen, and accounts of mystics (those who practice these traditions) can be professed, but nothing will compare to emotion and passion in the experience itself. The mind of a mystic can be viewed as one gone mad. Or is that merely the title o...
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Turning Off Your Thoughts Practice Of Meditation Meditate
719 wordsMeditation is a private devotion or mental exercise consisting of a number of techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction to heighten spiritual awareness. It has also been defined as, Consciously directing your attention to alter your state of consciousness. Meditation has been practiced around the world since the ancient times. It was used back then and still used today for spiritual growth (becoming more conscious). Meditation is mostly concerned about your attention, where it ...
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6,427 wordsMind-Body Therapies The mind and body are so completely connected that physical activities such as yoga and dance have healthful effects not only on the body but also on mental ailments such as depression and anxiety. Conversely, mental approaches such as hypnosis and imagery benefit physical problems such as hypertension and immune deficiency. Having an understanding of the mind-body connection helps us to see why CAM interventions prove helpful in the treatment of depression. For example, acco...
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John Wiley Short Term
1,911 wordsDr. Naikan Therapy Counseling Psychology Dr. B. Rudolph December 15, 1999 Naikan Therapy Naikan Therapy Defined The man responsible for the development of Naikan Therapy is Mr. Isbn Yoshimoto. Mr. Yoshimoto developed Naikan therapy as a short term structural treatment that is useful in treating marital and familial conflicts, interpersonal relationship issues, depression and anxiety, self-esteem issues, behavioral disorders, and addictive behaviors (Ramaswami &# 038; Sheikh, 1989, p. 106). Naika...
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834 wordsMeditation is the art of opening to each moment with calm awareness. (Davich 31) But perhaps at it s simplest, it can be defined as a quieting of the mind. However, to truly understand what it means to meditate, you must meditate. Meditation aspects can beyond all over the world, in many religions from Christianity to Buddhism. Meditation does not necessarily have to do with religion. Meditation can help people with illnesses, control stress or increase awareness. There are countless ways one co...
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Form Of Meditation Massage Therapy
1,196 wordsStress Management And the effects on wellness The effects of change reach into every crevice of life putting people more and more under pressure. Human biological evolution is lagging behind developments in technology and lifestyle. Physiological and psychological stress emerges as a result of a growing deficit between daily demands and coping resources. Today it is virtually impossible to avoid stress. Many try but they find that the avoidance strategies frequently generate more stress rather t...
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