Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body, written by Geoffrey Samuel and Jay Johnston

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 277-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loriliai Biernacki
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Mind And Body

Meditation and the Modern Encounter between Asia and the West

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. King
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Body ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

In the West, meditation has been particularly associated with Asian religions and seen as illustrative of the mystical nature of eastern culture. This chapter explores the impact of the colonial encounter between Europe and Asia. In this context, Asian meditative practices became abstracted from their traditional cosmological, ritualistic, and cultural contexts and reframed in terms of key conceptual binaries and assumptions deriving from modern Western culture. These include a Cartesian distinction between mind and body (with mind being associated with meditation and Buddhist mindfulness, and the body linked to “Hindu” yoga and its modern postural forms). Asian forms of meditation were translated according to a modern psychological framework and encountered in relation to the dichotomies between science and religion on the one hand and religious tradition and a de-traditionalized notion of spirituality on the other. The approaches taken in the Western encounter with Asian meditation tell us as much about the intellectual grooves of the modern Western episteme as they do about the Asian meditative traditions to which they relate.

scholarly journals Sexual Disorders in Asians

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 222-226
Author(s):  
Shivanand Manohar J. ◽  
Hrishikesh Solunke ◽  
K. Suhruth Reddy ◽  
Rajesh Raman ◽  
Gurvinder Kalra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asian Population ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Sexual Disorders ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Mind And Body

The inseparable relationship between mind and body, though known since ages, has been acknowledged in modern medicine only in recent times. There is abundant literature about the effects of various illnesses on different organ systems, but their effect on sexuality has not been emphasized. Research on sexuality has been fore fronted by the West and data, though available, cannot be extrapolated to the Asian population due to marked differences in physical and socio-cultural aspects. The authors have reviewed articles published in Clinical Key, PubMed and Scopus.

scholarly journals Representation of the Orient in Pasolini’s Arabian Nights

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Roohollah Roozbeh Koohshahee ◽  
Alireza Anushirvani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Duality Of Mind ◽  
Western View

This article aims at studying the representation of the Orient in Pasolini’s film Arabian Nights(1974). Since this film is a faithful adaptation of Thousand and One Nights it will be examined as carrying the same ideology which the text carries. The text of Thousand and One Nights established and legitimized orientalism in the west. Thus the movie follows suit in institutionalizing Orientalism. This is obtained by a close watching analysis and by looking at the images of the Orient, the plot itself, potential stylistic features which expresses images or attitudes in this regard. Our hypothesis is that the Orient in this movie is portrayed in accordance with notions of representation of the Other being depicted as, amongst other aspects, exotic, sexual, erotic and as a homogenous mass. Pasolini portrays Oriental men and woman as bodies in the duality of mind and body, and portrays them as a homogenous mass this is merely due to their belonging to a particular culture or race. The film represents the Oriental men and women as having a defining interest in sex and eroticism. It displays an exoticising Western view of the Oriental culture.

The Integration of Yoga Theory and Practice into a General Practice of Psychiatry

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S707-S707
Author(s):  
R. Weininger
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Past Half

IntroductionYoga is an ancient system of concepts and practices designed to address problems of the mind and body, codified during the few centuries BCE in India. Yoga has become increasingly popular in the West during the past half century, and its practice in various forms is now widespread. Along with mindfulness-based techniques, yoga is increasingly seen as compatible with Western therapeutic methods of approaching physical and mental illness.ObjectivesTo introduce the audience to the yoga model of the mind, and to show how it is both compatible with and complementary to Western models, including psychoanalytic and cognitive behavioral.AimsWe will explore how this ancient system can be introduced into clinical practice, and in what ways it can accelerate the process of psychotherapy and psychological change.MethodsThis talk will include a review of yoga theory, including the causes of suffering and its resolution. We will explore roadblocks in treatment and how daily practices can accelerate the process of growth and change.ConclusionsYoga can be a very helpful adjunct to a psychiatric practice, in addition to medications and psychotherapy.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

Enumeration and Identification of Asbestos Fibres in Water

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 526-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Mudroch ◽  
J. R. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Research Work ◽  
List Type ◽  
The West ◽  
Asbestos Fibre ◽  
Amphibole Asbestos

Approximately 60,000 tons per day of waste from taconite mining, tailing, are added to the west arm of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Tailings contain nearly the same amount of quartz and amphibole asbestos, cummingtonite and actinolite in fibrous form. Cummingtonite fibres from 0.01μm in length have been found in the water supply for Minnesota municipalities.The purpose of the research work was to develop a method for asbestos fibre counts and identification in water and apply it for the enumeration of fibres in water samples collected(a) at various stations in Lake Superior at two depth: lm and at the bottom.(b) from various rivers in Lake Superior Drainage Basin.

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