Body, Breath and Representation in Śaiva Tantrism

Paragrana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Gavin Flood
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper examines the idea of the subtle body as described in chapter 7 of the Netra Tantra. It shows how the body is understood as a symbolic system for mapping the cosmos and human beings place within it and examines the relationship between symbolic system and lived body.

scholarly journals Il liberalismo degli indifferenti La biopolitica nell’epoca degli stranieri morali

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessio Musio
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Body ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Universal Health

Il saggio intende offrire una valutazione del rapporto che lega il pensiero liberale alle forme della biopolitica e presenta a tal fine un doppio movimento che va dal liberalismo del libero mercato al pensiero di T. H. Engelhardt, per poi ritornare da questo al primo. Si comprenderà, così, per quale motivo anche in Engelhardt sia così essenziale quella discutibile e fenomenologicamente scorretta concezione proprietaria del corpo che segna il nesso tra liberalismo e la dottrina economica del libero mercato e che, appunto, sostanzia le tesi del filosofo texano sulla “persona”. Inoltre, diventerà possibile individuare per quale ragione nel suo pensiero compaiano contestualmente due tesi differenti: quella che attesta l’impossibilità di un’assistenza sanitaria universale per tutti gli “stranieri morali” e quella che sancisce la legittimità della non-curanza pubblica verso gli “esseri umani non-persone”. A fare da sfondo resta la domanda se sia questo tipo di liberalismo a divenire una fonte di indifferenza o non sia proprio una strana forma di ethos dell’indifferenza ad alimentarlo. ---------- This paper aims to provide an assessment of the relationship between the liberal thinking and the forms of biopolitics. For this purpose, the paper presents a double movement, which goes from the liberalism of the free market to the thought of T.H. Engelhardt, to then return from the latter to the first. Hence, it will be understood why even in Engelhardt it is so essential that questionable and phenomenologically incorrect conception–owner of the body–which marks the link between liberalism and the economic doctrine of the free market and that, in fact, substantiates the thesis of the Texan philosopher about the “person”. Further, it will be discussed why in his thought two different theses simultaneously emerge: the one claiming the inability of universal health care for all “moral foreigners” and the one stating the nonpublic disregard towards “non-person human beings”. In the background the open question is whether it is this type of liberalism to become a source of indifference or it is just a strange form of ethos of indifference to feed into it.

scholarly journals Tecnologia, corpo e educação física: entre a formação e a prática docente

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Evandro Antonio Corrêa ◽  
Deivide Telles de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio visa refletir as relações entre a formação em Educação Física, o corpo em movimento e as tecnologias na educação escolar. Compreendemos que a Educação Física precisa compreender esse corpo e suas diferentes nuances face as tecnologias, as quais podem contribuir como ferramentas auxiliadoras no processo de emancipação dos seres humanos no sentido de se tornarem mais reflexivos, críticos e criativos. Com os avanços das tecnologias observamos mudanças rápidas na sociedade, e o mesmo com o corpo. Torna-se necessário o debate sobre as inter-relações que ocorrem na sociedade entre a tecnologia, corpo e educação como um processo histórico e contínuo de transformações que envolvem questões culturais, econômicas, políticas, sociais que tem (re)configurado a atuação do professor de Educação Física com “novos” saberes e competências no âmbito escolar.Palavras-chave: Educação Física. Corpo. Tecnologia. Educação. Technology, body and physical education: between training and teaching practiceAbstractThis essay aims to reflect the relationship between training in Physical Education, the body in movement and technologies in school education. We understand that Physical Education needs to understand this body and its different nuances in the face of technologies, which can contribute as auxiliary tools in the emancipation process of human beings in order to become more reflective, critical and creative. With advances in technologies, we observe rapid changes in society, and the same with the body. It is necessary to debate the interrelationships that occur in society between technology, body and education as a historical and continuous process of transformations involving cultural, economic, political, social issues that have (re)configured the role of the Physical Education teacher with “new” knowledge and skills in the school environment.Keywords: Physical Education. Body. Technology. Education. Tecnología, cuerpo y educación física: entre la formación y la práctica docenteResumenEste ensayo tiene como objetivo reflejar las relaciones entre la formación en Educación Física, el móvil y las tecnologías en la educación escolar. Entendemos que la Educación Física necesita comprender este cuerpo y sus diferentes matices de cara a las tecnologías, que pueden contribuir como herramientas auxiliares en el proceso de emancipación del ser humano para volverse más reflexivo, crítico y creativo. Con los avances de la tecnología observamos cambios rápidos en la sociedad, y lo mismo ocurre con el cuerpo. Es necesario debatir las interrelaciones que se dan en la sociedad entre tecnología, cuerpo y educación como un proceso histórico y continuo de transformaciones que involucran cuestiones culturales, económicas, políticas, sociales que han (re) configurado el rol del docente de Educación Física con “nuevos” saberes, competencias en el entorno escolar.Palabras clave: Educación Física. Cuerpo. Tecnología. Educación.

Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Shushan
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Revitalization Movements ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Extraordinary Experiences ◽  
Evolutionary Science ◽  
Indigenous Religions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Afterlife Beliefs

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are indisputably part of human experience, known from accounts from around the world and throughout history. This book examines the role culture plays in how people experience and interpret NDEs, and reveals how afterlife beliefs often originate in such extraordinary experiences. It also explores the relationship between shamanism and NDEs. The book focuses on traditional indigenous societies in Africa, North America, and Oceania, drawing on historical reports of explorers, missionaries, and ethnologists. These sources indicate that though NDEs are universal, the ways in which they are experienced and interpreted vary by region and culture. In contrast, despite wide differences between shamanic practices across cultures, shamanic experiences often involve elements very similar to NDEs, including leaving the body, traveling to other realms, meeting deceased relatives, and returning with new insight or information. Through an interdisciplinary analysis incorporating ideas from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive evolutionary science, this book explains the continuum of similarities and differences between these phenomena. It presents a fascinating and engaging journey through afterlife beliefs and experiences of indigenous peoples from three continents, presenting dozens of hitherto unrecognized NDE accounts. Along the way, it also explores themes such as possession, burial of the dead, lucid dreams, religious revitalization movements, out-of-body experiences, and implications for beliefs that human beings really do survive physical death.

A rose is more than a rose … the diatextual constitution of subjects and objects

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mininni ◽  
Amelia Manuti
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Performative Power

AbstractThis paper integrates contributions coming from psychology with a phenomenological and semiotic perspective and focuses on the relationship of reciprocal constitution between “Subject” and “Object.” This relationship is evoked through radically different concepts such as the notions of “experience,” “consciousness” and “embodiment,” focusing attention on “discourse” as a macro-procedure generating the mutual link between Subject and Object. Therefore, the relationship between subject and object is identifiable through the text, namely “diatext.” It will be further argued that human beings act as “diatexters” of their existence in the world. Accordingly, psycho-discursive practices have the performative power to constitute both objects and subjects because they offer a creative solution by interlacing the “Body-Mind-Problem” to the “Mind-Culture-Problem.” In detail, the discursive resource granted by metaphors may be recognized as a modelling matrix embodying thought, as the interweaving of conceptual fields and as reasoning processes.

scholarly journals Order, Disobedience and Power in Kieslowski’s Dekalog

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-168
Author(s):  
Janet Barış
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Dekalog series, comprised of ten films made by Kieslowski in 1989-90 for the Polish TV, inspired by the Ten Commandments (Decalogues) in the Torah, treats the goodness and innocence of human beings, as well as the evilness and anxiety. Generally, as a common element in all films of the series, appears the triangle of order-submission-disobedience and the power field becomes a tide moving back and forth between different characters. According to Foucault, power is perceived differently today, compared to the past. In the earlier times, power was perceived to be the rulership of a king over its subjects, while today, different types of power exist. Foucault argues that the punishment directed towards the body before is now directed to the soul. The discourse in the Ten Commandments that directs people what to do and what not overlaps the Foucauldian definition of power and the punishment of the soul. This phenomenon appears in every film of the series differently, through the characters and the plot. This article’s objective is to examine Kieslowski’s Dekalog series through the relationship between order, submission and power, and to discuss the effects of this relationship over the characters.

Embodiment

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Culture Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
In Virtue Of

Embodiment—defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body—is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it differs from matter. On some understandings there may exist bodies, such as stones or asteroids, that are not the bodies of any particular subjects. To speak of embodiment by contrast is always to speak of a subject that variously inhabits, or captains, or is coextensive with, or even is imprisoned within, a body. The subject may in the end be identical to, or an emergent product of, the body. That is, a materialist account of embodied subjects may be the correct one. But insofar as there is a philosophical problem of embodiment, the identity of the embodied subject with the body stands in need of an argument and cannot simply be assumed. The reasons, nature, and consequences of the embodiment of subjects as conceived in the long history of philosophy in Europe as well as in the broader Mediterranean region and in South and East Asia, with forays into religion, art, medicine, and other domains of culture, form the focus of these essays. More precisely, the contributors to this volume shine light on a number of questions that have driven reflection on embodiment throughout the history of philosophy. What is the historical and conceptual relationship between the idea of embodiment and the idea of subjecthood? Am I who I am principally in virtue of the fact that I have the body I have? Relatedly, what is the relationship of embodiment to being and to individuality? Is embodiment a necessary condition of being? Of being an individual? What are the theological dimensions of embodiment? To what extent has the concept of embodiment been deployed in the history of philosophy to contrast the created world with the state of existence enjoyed by God? What are the normative dimensions of theories of embodiment? To what extent is the problem of embodiment a distinctly western preoccupation? Is it the result of a particular local and contingent history, or does it impose itself as a universal problem, wherever and whenever human beings begin to reflect on the conditions of their existence? Ultimately, to what extent can natural science help us to resolve philosophical questions about embodiment, many of which are vastly older than the particular scientific research programs we now believe to hold the greatest promise for revealing to us the bodily basis, or the ultimate physical causes, of who we really are?

scholarly journals Comparison of Metaphorical Expressions of the Heart Between Chinese and English

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Gong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese And English

This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term “heart” in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The comparison between Chinese and English shows that there exist some similarities and differences, which can be accounted for both by the commonality of bodily experiences unique to human beings and by the discrepancy of cultural modes from different countries. Finally, a revised model depicting the relationship between body, language, culture, and cognitive ability has been proposed.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Body Through Tattoos

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Sybele Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Psychoanalysis has always addressed issues concerning the body. More recently, the proliferation of practices of aesthetic body intervention such as plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos have been calling the attention of psychoanalysts to their use and effects on the subject. This paper focuses on the analysis of the role of tattoos in reclaiming one’s body, which will be approached through the psychoanalytical discourse analysis of data retrieved from online magazines and blogs. The practice of tattooing has subjective implications on the relationship between the body and the self, revealing a fundamental trace of human beings: the need to process traumatic events and give them some sort of tolerable expression.

scholarly journals Manifestasi Tuhan pada Tubuh Manusia dalam Teks Anggastya Prana

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Piartha
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Light Element ◽  
The Body ◽  
Outermost Layer ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Liquid Element ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

<p><em>The human body in the concept of Hinduism consists of three layers called Tri Sarira, namely: Sthula Sarira (body), Suksma Sarira (subtle body) and Anthakarana Sarira (causative body). Stula Sarira or coarse body is the outermost layer of the human body which is formed from the Panca Maha Buta, which consists of: Pertiwi (solid element), Apah (liquid element), Bayu (air element), Teja (heat / light element), and Akasa (ether). Suksma Sarira or subtle body which is a layer of the body that cannot be seen or touched, but is present    in mankind for example the mind. Anthakarana Sarira is a fine layer that is the cause of human life called Atman. Birth is closely related to the procurement of offspring, serves to pay birth debt. Debt in Sanskrit    is called Rna, which developed into Tri Rna, including: debt to the Gods (Dewa Rna), debt to parents or ancestors (Pitra Rna), and debt to the Rsi (Rsi Rna). In “Lontar Anggastya prana” it is told that the life of the baby while in the womb the mother is guarded and protected by Hyang Siwa / Siwatma.</em></p><em>The process of creation (uttpti) begins with interest or liking at the age of adolescence until the relationship occurs / intercourse until fertilization occurs between spermatozoid (kama petak) with ovum (kama bhang) becomes Sang Hyang Antigajati in the form of the seed of life. When a child is looking for birth, he is called Sang Hyang Siwatma. When humans are born into the world, he is accompanied by four brothers called Chess Sanak in the form of Yeh Nyom (amniotic fluid), placenta, shampoo, and blood. The Catur Sanak accompanies humans from birth as Sang Anggapati, Sang Prajapati, Sang Bhanaspati, and Sang Bhanaspatiraja, until humans die and change their designation according to human development, and continue with the depiction of God in the human body in the form of sacred characters.</em>

scholarly journals The semiotic dominants of initiation physicality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Kostiuk
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Internal Representations ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Image Models ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Semiotic Process

The purpose of the article is to investigate the semiotic dominants of physicality in initiation practices, conditioned by both external and internal representations of human beings. The methodology is based on the use of psychoanalytic, structural-semiotic, philosophical-anthropological, and cultural-historical methods. Scientific novelty. The application of the structural-semiotic approach allows us to reconstruct the symbolic system of physicality as a text having an internal structure and to suggest ways of deciphering this text. The semiotic dominants of initiation physicality on the example of hair, hairstyle, mask, and various manipulations with the body are considered, characteristics of their filling are given. Conclusions. Examples of the semiotic dominants of initiation physicality prove that initiation is represented through the prism of a semiotic process in which physicality is a sign and the context and conditions of its expression are initiations. This theory of sign systems provides an opportunity to interpret the human experience as an interpretive structure in which the way a person uses a sign or acts through initiation practices determines the approach to a perfect image. Models of modern man's behavior are based primarily on the attainment of bodily perfection with the help of hairstyle, makeup, tattooing, piercing, aesthetic methods of surgery, etc. This process is an unconscious means of copying the actions of an archaic person who has used tattoos, scarring, and other manipulations of the body in rituals and rituals of initiation. A promising direction for further research is the detailed study of initiation physicality in contemporary cultural space as an appropriate model of positioning the individual in a society, which proclaims the requirements for manipulation and transformation in order to conform to the image of the body formed by that society.

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