The Evidence for Reincarnation

1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cockburn
Keyword(s):  
Physical Characteristic ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
General Kind ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life

There are significant numbers of well-documented cases of the following general kind. At the age of 3 or 4 a child starts to make claims about his past which clearly do not correspond to anything that has happened in his present life. He claims to remember living in a certain place, doing certain things, being with certain people, and so on. It is then found that these memory claims fit the life of a person who died shortly before the child was born. The accuracy of the memory claims is striking and there seems to be no possible normal explanation of this. The child also has certain character traits, interests and skills which correspond closely to those of the one who died; and, perhaps, a physical characteristic, such as a birthmark or wound, which closely resembles a characteristic of the earlier individual.

scholarly journals “Daddy, can’t you see we are burning?” Traumatic Time and Parental Responsibility in Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Lona Moutafidou
Keyword(s):  
Child Death ◽  
Parental Responsibility ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
Dead Child ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Traumatic Impact ◽  
Impact Flash

In Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea, screened in 2016, Lee commits a life-changing mistake: on his way to the mini-market, he forgets to put the screen on the fireplace. Upon his return, he becomes a numbed witness to the spectacle of his own family tragedy as the authorities remove his children’s bodies from the burning house scene. This significant event is represented through a sequence of flashbacks, which designates said cinematic device as one of the film’s most important features. Indeed, in The Trauma Question, Roger Luckhurst approaches the flashback as “the cinema’s rendition of the frozen moment of the traumatic impact . . . flash[ing] back insistently in the present because the image cannot yet or perhaps ever be narrativized as past.” Years after the incident, and still unable to address the wound of his parental negligence and child-death trauma, Lee dreams of his dead daughter suggestively asking, “Daddy, can’t you see we are burning?” The question echoes the one from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, where another father dreams of his dead child being burnt. In Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, Cathy Caruth examines Freud and Lacan’s analysis of this question as to the significance of grief articulation, trauma coping and trauma persistence in sleep and awaken reality. The purpose of this article is to examine anachrony as a feature which exalts the dysfunctional inertia of a present life and of a traumatized mind afflicted by events which have been impossible to either register, integrate or narrate. Secondly, the article will try to unearth the mechanics of Lee’s grief and guilt via his daughter’s question. Emphasis will be placed on Lee’s inability to assume what Caruth calls the “ethical burden of survival” when asked to be his orphaned nephew’s guardian. This will be viewed as a reminder of Lee’s failure as a parent and as a challenge and invitation for the character to recover from the vacuum of his current death-in-life.

L'opinion des catholiques hongrois sur les reformes de l'Eglise

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-401
Author(s):  
J. Morel ◽  
E. Andras
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
General Reference ◽  
Spiritual Orientation ◽  
Liturgical Reform ◽  
General Kind ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church ◽  
Pastoral Action

A representative enquiry based on sample selection was undertaken among Hungarian tourists in Austria with the object of investigating the general attitude taken up with regard to conciliar renewal and pastoral action. The truth or falsity of the relevant hypotheses was tested in five sets of questions: there were questions with general secular reference ; questions with secular reference concerning Hungary; questions with religious and general reference, but concerning Hungary; questions with reference to the Council and religious renewal in general; and questions relating to liturgical reform. In addition to several detailed results and particular conclusions the fol lowing basic trends were verified: 1. Pastoral action should, according to the faithful, come to grips with many more problems of a general kind as problems which stand in relationship to specifically new experiences in the life of the Church, i.e. the presuppositions are the most important thing in this particular field. 2. In this sector, however, it seems that there is a great amount of lee way to be made up. Pastoral action therefore should be on the one hand very intensive and on the other hand be well-balanced, pedagogic and careful in its method of application, i.e. it should ensure the quickest possible transition without being precipitate. 3. The greatest, and perhaps the most dangerous, deficiency in the religious life of Hungarian Catholics seems to lie in the field of religious education, religious culture, information and knowledge. The long spiritual isolation, the lack of objective means of spiritual orientation and of religious cultural nourishment, the impossibility of keeping up to date with the spiritual development of the Church as a whole are probably leading not only to a lack of knowledge but are also bringing about changes at the deepest levels of the human psyche.

The Compulsion to Create: Definition and Genesis of the Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-263
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Janiszewska-Szczepanik
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIs it possible to speak of the compulsion to create? And if so, what underlies it? In this article, I set out to offer a comprehensive explanation of what may cause the strong desire for creative activity observable in many artistically-inclined individuals. To describe this desire, I use the term compulsion to create, and drawing upon examples from both pop-culture and the lives of famous artists on the one hand, and philosophical and scholarly writings on the other, I seek its sources in the individual’s psyche. I discuss how the compulsion to create depends, among other factors, on an individual’s personality and mental state (in the sense of Sigmund Freud’s and Elaine N. Aron’s theories), transcendental circumstances (in the sense of Carl Jung’s theory) and character traits (as defined by Jordan Peterson). Then, I frame the phenomenon studied within the 4Ps Model of Creativity. I point to a significant correlation between the compulsion to create and high levels of an individual’s creativity. Additionally, I discriminate between the notions of the drive to create and the compulsion to create. The article proposes a definition of the compulsion to create which allows for a clear understanding of this notion and its popular application in the field of creatology.

Intellectual Humility, Proper Pride, and Proper Concern with Others’ Esteem

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
Alessandra Tanesini
Keyword(s):  
Social Comparisons ◽  
The Other ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Intellectual Virtues ◽  
Intellectual Humility ◽  
Overlapping Clusters ◽  
The One ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

This chapter provides accounts of four character traits: intellectual modesty and acceptance of intellectual limitations (which together constitute intellectual humility); proper pride in one’s epistemic achievements and proper concern for one’s intellectual reputation. It argues that these are intellectual virtues. The main difference between humility (as comprising of modesty and of acceptance of limitations) on the one hand, and pride and concern for esteem on the other, lies in the nature of social comparisons on which they are based. Humility relies on appraisals of the worth of one’s qualities that might be gauged by comparing oneself to other people and which are driven by a concern for accuracy. The chapter also makes a case that overlapping clusters of attitudes serving knowledge and value expressive functions are the causal bases of these character traits.

scholarly journals ‘Yes, Security, there is security. But other than that, nothing.’: An empirical inquiry into the ‘everyday (in)security’ of Syrian and Iraqi urban refugees in Jordan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Ajil ◽  
Manon Jendly ◽  
Claudia Campistol Mas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Flight Period ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Diffuse Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Empirical Material

Abstract Scholarship on security has recently seen a shift from traditionally state-centric, elitist and objectivist conceptions of ‘security’ towards human-centred perspectives, which put emphasis on forms of ‘vernacular’ and ‘everyday’ security, and promote bottom-up empirical inquiries to further our understand of what security looks like ‘from below’. There remains, however, a dearth of empirical material exploring ‘everyday security’. In this paper, we are studying the ‘everyday security’ of a particularly securitized group, namely refugees. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted between 2016 and 2017 with 23 Syrian and Iraqi urban refugees living in the Jordanian cities of Amman and Mafraq. We analyse how they understand and perceive their own (in)security: we do so by focusing, retrospectively, on the factors and events that led up to their flight from their home country (‘pre-flight period’) on the one hand and those shaping their present life in exile in Jordanian urban areas (‘post-flight period’) on the other. Our findings indicate that, while pre-flight insecurity is mostly defined around existential threats to physical integrity, post-flight insecurity is shaped by a more diffuse form of insecurity, resulting from the legal, economic, social and political limbo they are stuck in.

scholarly journals Conundrums of Buddhist Cosmology and Psychology

Numen ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-370
Author(s):  
Mikel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Common Factor ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life

Despite the Buddha’s renowned aversion to metaphysical-cum-cosmological speculation, ostensibly cosmological systems have proliferated in Buddhist traditions. Debates persist over how to interpret these systems, a central puzzle being the relation between apparently cosmological and psychological aspects. This article critically analyzes three main interpretive orientations, namely psychologization, literalism, and the one-reality view. After examining a tendency in the third of these to equivocate between talk of two co-referentialvocabulariesand talk of two correspondingorders, I discuss at length the debate between literalist and psychologizing approaches. The latter emphasize how accounts of “realms of existence” are most cogently read as figurative descriptions of mental states, whereas literalists argue that at least some of the accounts should be understood cosmologically, as descriptions of spatiotemporal regions. Notwithstanding weaknesses in some literalist arguments, the importance to Buddhist soteriology of a conception of rebirth beyond one’s present life counts against psychologizing approaches that either ignore or downplay this importance. Returning to the one-reality view, I develop the idea that it is the existential state being described that constitutes the common factor between “cosmological” and “psychological” passages. Treating the texts in an overly literal-minded manner, I suggest, risks missing these descriptions’ affective and conative significance.

scholarly journals Memaknai Penyelamatan Zipora terhadap Rencana Pembunuhan Musa oleh Tuhan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-277
Author(s):  
Firman Panjaitan
Keyword(s):  
Word Study ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Study Research ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Difficult Part

In the Bible it is often found a difficult part to understand, especially in this paper about the plan of the Lord who wanted to kill Moses. Even if you look deeper, Moses is a person sent by the LORD to free the nation of Israel from occupation in Egypt. This section needs to be examined more deeply, so that it can be searched for what is the basis of this action of the Lord, and at the same time what theological meanings are contained in this section, which are also relevant to present life. Through word study research efforts, it can be found that the plan of the Lord to kill Moses was not a playful plan, but it was a truly serious plan. But all these plans could be failed because Zipporah, the wife of Moses, succeeded in making atonement with the LORD through the foreskin of Moses 'son who was affixed to Moses' pubic. This indicates that the Lord's plan occurred because Moses was negligent in keeping his holiness, which is to circumcise his child. Holiness is the most important thing in carrying out all forms of service and call of God. If this holiness was ignored, then it could be that the Lord's plan to send someone turned into the anger of the LORD against the one sent.Abstrak: Dalam Alkitab seringkali dijumpai bagian yang sulit untuk dipahami. Terkait dengan tulisan ini, bagian yang sangat sulit itu adalah tentang rencana TUHAN yang hendak membunuh Musa. Padahal kalau dilihat lebih dalam lagi, Musa adalah orang yang diutus oleh TUHAN untuk membebaskan bangsa Israel dari kerja paksa di Mesir. Bagian ini perlu untuk diteliti lebih dalam lagi, agar dapat dicari apa yang menjadi dasar dari tindakan TUHAN ini, dan sekaligus ditarik makna teologi apa yang terkandung dalam bagian ini, yang juga relevan bagi kehidupan sekarang. Melalui studi kata, maka dapat dijumpai bahwa rencana TUHAN membunuh Musa bukanlah rencana yang main-main, tetapi merupakan rencana yang memang sungguh-sungguh. Namun semua rencana itu dapat digagal-kan karena ada Zipora, istri Musa, yang berhasil mengadakan upaya ‘pendamaian’ dengan TUHAN melalui kulit khatan anak Musa yang ditempelkan ke ‘kemaluan’ Musa. Ini menandakan bahwa rencana TUHAN itu terjadi karena Musa telah lalai dalam menjaga kekudusan dirinya, yaitu menyunatkan anaknya. Kekudusan meru-pakan hal terpenting dalam menjalankan segala bentuk pelayanan dan panggilan TUHAN. Apabila kekudusan ini diabaikan, maka bisa saja rencana TUHAN mengutus seseorang berubah menjadi kemarahan TUHAN terhadap yang diutus. 

scholarly journals Die πανοπλία Gottes. Eph 6,11–17 als Reflexion der Belagerung einer Stadt

2015 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-64
Author(s):  
Nils Neumann
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
The Military ◽  
Present Life

Abstract: The image of „God’s Armor“ in Eph 6,11–17 is modeled, on the one hand, after biblical traditions, taking formulations from the book of Isaiah (Isa 11,5; 52,7; 59,17). But on the other hand the author of Ephesians also adds some elements to the image that do not have any equivalents in Isaiah or other biblical texts. These extra elements in Ephesians are the sword, the shield, the mention of the military term πανοπλία („armor“), and the sandals. The naming of these additional items is based on first century knowledge about the equipment of a Roman legionnaire. As can be shown by comparison to descriptions of ancient Roman warfare in Josephus and Polybius, the wearer of God’s armor in Ephesians is figuratively positioned in a concrete battle situation, namely the siege of a town wall. The author of Eph 6,11–17 imagines the present life of the Christian community as a dramatic situation that can be compared to a battle. With the sword of God’s word in their hands the members of the Christian community are supposed to defend the wall of their fortress against the attacks of the forces of evil.

ANCESTRY AND FAMILY IDENTITY IN SUETONIUS’ CAESARS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Phoebe Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Identities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Family Trees

Abstract Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars usually begin with a family tree. These family trees are often rhetorical, foreshadowing in the ancestors character traits that will be themes of the rest of the Life. This particular rhetorical strategy relies upon an older phenomenon of ‘family identity’—namely, the literary application of similar characteristics to people in the same family—such as the one that tells us that the Claudii are proud and the Domitii Ahenobarbi are ferocious. Gary Farney studied ‘family identity’ as a phenomenon of the Republic. There, it was the association of a family with a certain characteristic, a kind of ‘branding’. It would be perfectly obvious for Suetonius to use the family identities already in use for well-known families, but, as I show here, Suetonius’ selection of ancestors creates different family identities rather than simply using the traditional ones he would have found in other sources. In this study I concentrate on Nero and Tiberius. I focus on these two emperors because they are individuals where there is a known family identity in other sources and they also have the most detailed and elaborate ancestry sections in Suetonius’ Caesars. Family identity seems to be most interesting to Suetonius when it goes against expectations, and that is when Suetonius’ family trees are most elaborate.

Appropriation spatiale et territoriale de la chambre en maison de retraite

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliane Rioux ◽  
Evelyne Fouquereau
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Satisfaction Rating ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
Spatial Appropriation ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Life ◽  
Age And Sex

AbstractThis exploratory survey aimed at determining the spatial and territorial factors used by elderly people when entering an old people's home and illustrating how these variables could be referred to two spatial and territorial appropriation processes. One hundred and two residents were asked to describe their rooms and to fill in a life satisfaction rating scale adapted by Blais, Vallerand, Pelletier and Brière (1989). The findings highlighted two distinct appropriation processes, that is to say a spatial appropriation-disappropriation process and a territorial disappropriation-reappropriation one. The respective predictors of these two processes are on the one hand the life satisfaction ratio, age and sex; and on the other hand the representation the elderly person has of his/her own autonomy as well as the evaluation of the gap between the elderly person's satisfaction with his/her past and present life.

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