The Chevalier’s Secret: Emma Hardinge Britten and the Dawn of American Occultism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
Conscious Will ◽  
And Training

Abstract In 1876, prominent spiritualist medium and writer Emma Hardinge Britten published two books written by the Chevalier Louis de B., arguably a pseudonym she used to disguise her own opinions about the nature of the soul and the power of the occult will. As American spiritualism fell into disrepute—dogged by cases of fraudulent mediums and a culture of excess—occultism, typified at the time by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, rose up to replace it. Britten saw the potential that Blavatsky’s views on the development of the conscious will, the existence of a spirit hierarchy, and training with skilled adepts could have for spiritualism’s much less structured approach to supernaturalism, but she worried over occultism’s dismissive attitude toward a unified concept of the soul. Blavatsky tended to fracture the self into several parts in her writing, dismissed the prospect of human spirit communication, and challenged the notion that all human souls were immortal. I argue that Britten created the Chevalier in order to challenge spiritualist orthodoxy while maintaining her identification as a medium who believed sincerely in the spiritualist concept of the soul. I discuss three major areas in which Britten sought to negotiate a space between spiritualism and occultism: the consequences of mediumistic passivity, the existence of non-human spirits, and the predominance of a secret Indian brotherhood at the head of an occult hierarchy.

Autotrophic Ethos in Mill's Arboretum

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Human Choice

In this paper, I use the tree analogy at the heart of Mill’s discussion of individuality as a lens through which to interpret On Liberty and its connection to Utilitarianism. I propose five alternative interpretations: (1) the tree as a symbol for Enlightenment progress as an outgrowth of originality, (2) the tree as a symbol for the capacity for choice within Mill’s hedonistic conception of happiness, (3) the tree as the mystery of human choice, (4) the tree as the uninhibited human spirit, arising out of a plant-animal dialectic, and (5) the tree as the embodied ideal conception of the self. I then argue that the multiplicity of interpretations lends itself to an autotrophic intellectual ethos, wherein the tree becomes as a symbol of the liberty of interpretation.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Turkish Language and Literature Teachers in Practicing Constructivist Approach in Terms of Various Variables

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Fatih Veyis
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
The Self ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
New Information ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
And Training

It is a scientifically and developmentally undeniable reality that the educational activities that guide education and training activities and aim to raise the nation according to the requirements of the age and keep up with the necessary arrangements for this purpose. With the periodic developments in the world, the transformation in the philosophy of education and understanding of education has brought along the application of new approaches and understandings in education. The constructivist approach that started to be applied in education with these developments is also one of the new educational approaches. Constructivist understanding is defined as a process in which students are actively involved in educational activities and new information is built on pre-learning. Constructivism is a contemporary understanding that covers all kinds of practices that the student can actively engage in the learning process, and it emphasizes that education can be successful to the extent that it can serve individual differences. It has been fifteen years since the practices on constructivism started to be implemented in our country. During this period and as a point reached, it is a question of how much this understanding is applied. With this research, it is aimed to examine the self-efficacy beliefs of Turkish language and literature teachers towards applying constructivist approach in terms of various variables.

Hypnosis and Will

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Conscious Will

This chapter explains how hypnosis involves a significant departure from the everyday experience and exercise of conscious will. The hypnotized person experiences the causation of his actions in an unusual way, as being generated less by the self and more by the hypnotist. This is not only a feeling but involves a kind of actual transfer of control from person to hypnotist. What is equally odd, though, is that the range of what can be controlled changes during hypnosis. In this sense, while hypnosis may undermine the experience of will, it seems paradoxically to expand and alter the force of will. This is why hypnosis has been implicated in many of the curiosities of will, including possession, multiple personality, and automatisms.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Final-Year Turkish Dental Students’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Self-Perceived Competency towards Preventive Dentistry

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arzu Pınar Erdem ◽  
Kadriye Peker ◽  
Sinem Kuru ◽  
Elif Sepet
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Dental Hygiene ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Preventive Dentistry ◽  
Caries Risk ◽  
Preventive Practice ◽  
And Training

Background. Dental education plays an important role in providing students with the opportunity to develop their evidence-based knowledge and clinical skills regarding patient-specific preventive care and caries management strategies. The aims of this study were to examine the knowledge, attitude, and self-perceived competency towards preventive dentistry among final-year dental students and to investigate their preventive practice for high-caries-risk children. Methods. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 126 dental students using a questionnaire. The IBM SPSS Statistics version 21 was used for data analysis. Results. A total of 126 students completed the questionnaire, and 63% of the respondents were female. Significant gender differences were found in the total Professional Preventive Knowledge Scale (PPKS) (p=0.016) and its subscales of the noncariogenic nutrition (p=0.015), dental hygiene/clinical examination (p<0.001), caries-preventive practice (p=0.02), and the Hiroshima University-Dental Behavioral Inventory (HU-DBI) (p=0.028). Significant differences were observed in the total PPKS (p=0.003) and its subscales of the noncariogenic nutrition (p=0.043) and caries risk management (p=0.006) in terms of self-perceived need to receive education and training. Caries-preventive practice was correlated with the self-perceived competency (r = 0.279; p=0.002), the attitudes (r = 0.394; p<0.001), the total PPKS (r = 0.457; p<0.001) and its all subscales of dental hygiene and clinical examination (r = 0.425; p<0.001), noncariogenic nutrition (r = 0.410; p<0.001), and caries risk management (r = 0.184; p=0.039). The self-perceived competency was positively correlated with the total PPKS (r = 0.192; p=0.031) and its subscale of noncariogenic nutrition (r = 0.259; p=0.003). Greater self-perceived competence, more positive attitudes, and good knowledge regarding preventive dentistry were found to be important predictors of the caries-preventive practice of dental students, explaining 31% of the variance (adjusted R2 = 0.312, p<0.001). Conclusion. 40% of dental students reported educational and training needs regarding the diagnosis, caries-preventive agents, and risk-based treatment plan. These results should be taken into account by the stakeholders in developing the national core curriculum for undergraduate Turkish dental education.

scholarly journals Power and Persuasion: Processes by Which Perceived Power Can Influence Evaluative Judgments

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Briñol ◽  
Richard E. Petty ◽  
Geoffrey R. O. Durso ◽  
Derek D. Rucker
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
Perceived Power

The present review focuses on how power—as a perception regarding the self, the source of the message, or the message itself—affects persuasion. Contemporary findings suggest that perceived power can increase or decrease persuasion depending on the circumstances and thus might result in both short-term and long-term consequences for behavior. Given that perceptions of power can produce different, and even opposite, effects on persuasion, it might seem that any relationship is possible and thus prediction is elusive or impossible. In contrast, the present review provides a unified perspective to understand and organize the psychological literature on the relationship between perceived power and persuasion. To accomplish this objective, present review identifies distinct mechanisms by which perceptions of power can influence persuasion and discusses when these mechanisms are likely to operate. In doing so, this article provides a structured approach for studying power and persuasion via antecedents, consequences, underlying psychological processes, and moderators. Finally, the article also discusses how power can affect evaluative judgments more broadly.

scholarly journals Exploring Self-Leadership Development of Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Roziah Mohd Rasdi ◽  
Siti Raba’ah Hamzah ◽  
Tan Fee Yean
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Self ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Leadership Process ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
And Training ◽  
Malaysian Women

The Problem In Malaysia, women entrepreneurs are underrepresented, and little is known about their development of self-leadership. Official statistics indicate that approximately half of the businesses run by women remain underperforming. This shows that women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership is an issue that should be addressed. The Solution This study aims to explore self-leadership development of Malaysian women entrepreneurs. Qualitative interviews with seven women entrepreneurs were conducted. The study findings indicated that self-leadership is a process that can be developed and mastered by women entrepreneurs so that they have better chances of success in their business start-ups. This study provides a model of the self-leadership process that illustrates a range of influences that are likely to contribute to women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. The Stakeholders The model developed would be beneficial to human resource development (HRD) practitioners and Malaysian government agencies (e.g., SME Corporation Malaysia) that design and deliver interventions (e.g., incubator programs and training workshops) focusing on women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development.

Education as Transformation: Becoming a Healer Among the !Kung and the Fijians

1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Katz
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
The West ◽  
Kalahari Desert ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Community Mental Health Workers ◽  
And Training

Current education and training of community mental health workers in the West have focused on the accumulation of knowledge and on healing technology. Richard Katz,through ethnographic work in the Kalahari Desert and the Fiji Islands, presents an alternative model of healer education that stresses the transformation of the healer's character. This transformation connects the healer to healing resources beyond the self,commits the healer to service in the community, and becomes the context within which healing knowledge and technology can be used while the healer remains a fully contributing member of the community, disavowing the accumulation of power for personal use.

scholarly journals SATISFACCIÓN LABORAL Y EL CLIMA ORGANIZACIONAL DE LAS PRINCIPALES UNIVERSIDADES SUCREÑAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Patricia Rojas Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Security ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Training

El presente artículo es resultado de una investigación que se realizó con el objetivo describir los elementos que conforman la satisfacción laboral y determinar cómo este factor influye en el clima organizacional de los empleados de las principales universidades sucreñas; la investigación se llevó a cabo en las principales universidades de Sucre (Colombia) que cuentan con sede propia tomándose para ello una muestra de 120 docentes.. Los resultados referentes a las condiciones laborales no son las mejores, además con respecto a la estabilidad laboral, no se garantiza a los colaboradores su permanencia en la organización; con relación a la autorrealización, no hay apoyo suficiente para su crecimiento profesional y las capacitaciones son. Para dar solución a dicha situación se concluye que es necesario implementar estrategias direccionadas a brindar más motivación a los colaboradores organizando capacitaciones de acuerdo al desempeño que se quiera fortalecer en cada docente de esta manera se fundamentar así el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral factores que determinen el grado de bienestar de los individuos. ABSTRACTThis article has as objective to describe the elements that make up the job satisfaction and determine how this factor influences the organizational climate of the employees of the main universities sucreñas; the research was conducted at major universities with its own headquarters of the department of Sucre, taking a sample of 120 teachers. Regarding working conditions are not the best, and with respect to job security is not guaranteed to reviewers their stay in the organization in relation to the self, there is sufficient support for their professional growth and training are scarce. To provide a solution to these situations it is concluded that it is very necessary to implement strategies routed to provide more motivation to the collaborators, constantly training according to the performance that you want to strengthen in each teacher and in this way substantiate to the organizational climate and job satisfaction as factors that determine the degree of well-being that the individual experience.

scholarly journals The Effect of Self-Financing on Learning Motivation with Mediation of Training Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Endang Setyowati ◽  
Dyah Sawitri
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
The Self ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

This study aims to examine the effect of Self-financing on Training quality and the impact on learning motivation of trainees at UPT BLK Singosari-Malang. This research is important because in the researchers knowledge it has never been studied before and can contribute to Singosari BLK UPT to determine appropriate Self-financing and training. The study population was 60 participants who had attended training at UPT BLK Singosari during 2019 using Self-financing. Because the samples are small, this study uses a census sample, where a total of 60 people are sampled. Data collection uses a questionnaire. Data was obtained by distributing a list of questions about the Self-financing variable and Training quality in relation to learning motivation to respondents. The data obtained were analyzed by multiple regression analysis and path analysis. The results showed that Self-financing directly has a significant effect on Training quality variable. Self-financing directly has a significant effect on variable Learning motivation. The Training quality directly has a significant effect on Learning motivation variable. Self-financing indirectly has a significant effect on Learning motivation mediated by Training quality.

Frequently asked questions about conscious will

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 679-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Wegner
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Conscious Will

The commentators' responses to The Illusion of Conscious Will reveal a healthy range of opinions – pro, con, and occasionally stray. Common concerns and issues are summarized here in terms of 11 “frequently asked questions,” which often center on the theme of how the experience of conscious will supports the creation of the self as author of action.

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