scholarly journals Poems in Prose by I.S. Turgenev: the Cycle’s Title as a Historical Literary Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Yulia D. Burmistrova
Keyword(s):  
Sequential Analysis ◽  
World View ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Foreign Publication ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
French Edition ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Death Experience

The article deals with the I.S. Turgenevs last cycle Poems in prose which title has been changed several times throughout his work on it. The cycle put together the main aspects of writers previous creative works which led to the continuous search for the most suitable title to fully express authors intentions: from the original Posthuma which is focused on the life after death experience to the last Poems in prose which additionally underlines the uniqueness of the form used for Turgenevs last creative work. The study reveals the main theories on the cycles titles and the reasons behind their changes as well as suggests the own vision of the evolution of concepts after death and senile which are seemed to be bound in writers world view. The sequential analysis of the existing cycles titles undertaken in the current research finds the logic of Turgenevs title transformations where the fear of death is gradually replaced by the thoughts of future new life which will be continued beyond the Earth life. The significance of the research lies in the absence of the unified approach to the naming and understanding of the Turgenevs last cycle while the title of the book was considered to change the works perception even by Turgenevs contemporaries. The scientific novelty of the work is added by using the authors French edition of Poems in prose which up until now hasnt been studied properly. It allows to expand the material of the research and look thoroughly into Turgenevs strategy of naming his final cycle which was preserved for the foreign publication as well.

Point-of-Transition

2020 ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Peter J. Adams
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Regular Contact ◽  
Near Death Experience

This chapter provides a third example of an enabling frame based on an intense belief in dying as a transition to some form of afterlife. An intense mystical experience can provide the catalyst for a profound realization that death is not the end of life but a transition into another form of being. Confidence in this belief reduces a person’s fear of death, and regular contact with markers of finitude further strengthens this understanding and reinforces a sense of connection to death as a gateway to the afterlife. This, then, leads on to a discussion of philosophical positions, both pro and anti, regarding life after death and its relationship to what is happening when a person has a near-death experience.

Commentary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Nicholls ◽  
Michael Pushkin ◽  
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Russian Symbolism ◽  
P Sources

Sources of the thinking are given, preceded by an investigation of the relation between philosophy and music, an account of the idiosyncratic way Skryabin studied, an interview between Skryabin and a philosopher of the period and a memoir by a student and patron summarizing the thought. The titles of the sections show the sources and influences: Ernest Renan, Greek philosophy, German idealism, Russian philosophy, and Russian symbolism, Conference at Geneva (this was a philosophical conference of which Skryabin studied some of the material), the influence of theosophy, and Indian culture. These influences were combined by Skryabin, not into a system but into a world view which vitally affected his creative work.(114)

scholarly journals Factors Moderating the Impact of After Death Communications on Beliefs and Spirituality

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110291
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Penberthy ◽  
Marieta Pehlivanova ◽  
Tevfik Kalelioglu ◽  
Chris A. Roe ◽  
Callum E. Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

After death communications(ADCs) are defined as perceived spontaneous contacts with living individuals by the deceased. This research presents on a subset of data from a recent large international survey of individuals who experienced ADCs and provided systematic information regarding these experiences. In our research we explore the impact of having an ADC on reported spirituality, religiosity, beliefs and attitudes about death and dying and also explore the moderating factors of this impact. We found that having an ADC was perceived as a positive life experience and that it was associated with a reduction in fear of death, belief in life after death and that the deceased could communicate with the living, and increased reported spirituality. Moderating factors include aspects of having or desiring physical contact with the deceased as well as perceiving some emotional reaction to the ADCs. Future directions for research exploration are also provided based on our findings.

scholarly journals Cuidando da terra. Ética do cuidado no contexto da criação

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (273) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Antônio Moser
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Earth

Vivemos hoje numa aceleração histórica sem precedentes. Não ape­nas as ações das bolsas de valores se mostram totalmente fluidas. Os avan­ços nos campos da genética e das biotecnologias concedem aos seres huma­nos o poder de remodelar o que existe e criar o que nunca existiu nem pode­ria ter existido antes. Tudo isto acarreta desafios ecológicos inusitados, pois aos “gritos da terra” e aos “gritos do cosmos ” somam-se os “gritos da iden­tidade profunda dos seres Só uma mudança radical de atitudes que conju­gue novas tecnologias com o cuidado carinhoso poderá salvar a incrível multiplicidade de seres que manifestam a riqueza da obra criadora de Deus.Abstract: We are now experiencing an unprecedented histórica! accelerati- on. Not only have the shares in the StockExchange become totally fluid, but the advancements in genetics and biotechnology provide human beings with the power to reshape what already exists and to create what has never existed— and could not have existed— before. All this leads to unusual eco- logical challenges, for to the “cries of the earth ” and to the “cries of the cosmos ” are added the “cries of the beings 'inner identity ”. Only a radical change of altitudes, able to couple the new technologies with tender care can save the amazing multiplicity of beings that manifest the richness of God s Creative work.

Personalistic Organicism: Paradox or Paradigm?

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Ferré
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Free Atoms

Many environmental thinkers are torn in two opposing directions at once. For good reasons we are appalled by the damage that has been done to the earth by the ethos of heedless anthropocentric individualism, which has achieved its colossal feats of exploitation, encouraged to selfishness by its world view—of relation-free atoms—while chanting ‘reduction’ as its mantra. But also for good reasons we are repelled, at the other extreme, by environmentally correct images of mindless biocentric collectivisms in which precious personal values are overridden for the good of some healthy beehive ‘whole’.

Can Experiences Near Death Furnish Evidence of Life after Death?

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Williams Kelly ◽  
Bruce Greyson ◽  
Ian Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

Most people who have a near-death experience (NDE) say that the experience convinced them that they will survive death. People who have not had such an experience, however, may not share this conviction. Although all features of NDEs, when looked at alone, might be explained in ways other than survival, there are three features in particular that we believe suggest the possibility of survival, especially when they all occur in the same experience. These features are: enhanced mental processes at a time when physiological functioning is seriously impaired; the experience of being out of the body and viewing events going on around it as from a position above; and the awareness of remote events not accessible to the person's ordinary senses. We briefly report one such case, and we also briefly describe two additional such cases in which the remote events apparently seen were verified by other persons.

The Psychological Correlates of Decreased Death Anxiety After a Near-Death Experience: The Role of Self-Esteem, Mindfulness, and Death Representations

2019 ◽  
pp. 002216781989210
Author(s):  
Simone Bianco ◽  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Arianna Palmieri ◽  
Sheldon Solomon ◽  
Joshua Hart
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Psychological Correlates ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Future Theory

Near-death experiences (NDE) are intense events that can have profound psychological consequences. Although decreased fear of death after an NDE is a well-documented phenomenon, it is unclear what psychological factors are associated with reduced death anxiety. In this study, grounded in terror management theory, we compared 102 people who had an NDE with 104 individuals who did not. Participants completed measures of death anxiety, self-esteem, mindfulness, and death representation. Results indicated that people who had an NDE had lower fear of death, higher self-esteem, greater mindfulness, and viewed death more as a transition rather than as absolute annihilation. Subsequent analyses found that NDE had a direct effect on death anxiety, and that the effect of NDE on death anxiety was also mediated by indirect effects on self-esteem and death representation. Implications of these findings are considered, limitations of the present study are acknowledged, and suggestions for future theory and research are proffered.

A unified approach to the representation of seismic sources

1973 ◽  
Vol 331 (1587) ◽  
pp. 525-551 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spherical Surface ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Concentrated Force ◽  
Elastic Fields ◽  
Earthquake Sources ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Unbounded Medium ◽  
Navier Equation ◽  
Dipolar Source

An attempt is made to give a unified treatment to the problem of the representation of various sources commonly used in theoretical studies in seismology. Beginning with the Stokes-Love solution for a concentrated force, the displacement field due to a dipolar source in a homogeneous, isotropic, unbounded medium is expressed in terms of the eigen­vector solutions of the vector Navier equation. This field is transformed to a spherical co­ordinate system having its origin at the centre of the Earth. The transformed field is then used to calculate the jumps in the displacements and stresses across the concentric spherical surface passing through the source. These jumps constitute a convenient representation of the source. Since it exhibits the properties of the source and not that of the medium, the above representation is also valid when the medium under consideration is bounded and inhomo­geneous. A similar representation is obtained in the case of the circular cylinder coordinate system. This representation can be conveniently applied to investigate the excitation of various elastic fields in the Earth by earthquake sources such as the free oscillations, surface waves and residual static deformation.

scholarly journals Negotiating a New World View in Acts 1.8? A Note on the Expression ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Peter-Ben Smit
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World View ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

This article argues that the expression ‘to the end of the earth’ in Acts 1.8, while not referring to one specific geographical location, as has often been argued in contemporary scholarship on Acts, is best understood as a way of (re)ordering the world geographically and, therefore, ideologically. Drawing on Greco-Roman geographical and literary conventions, the article suggests that the author of Acts invites the work's readers to look at the world in a new way, with Jerusalem and the gospel emanating from it as its centre – and the rest, including Rome, as its ideological (and therefore geographical) periphery. In this way, Acts proceeds to renegotiate the ‘world-view’ of its readers in an intercultural and subversive way.

scholarly journals On Life After Death: A Chaplain’s View on the Process of Dying

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kaldahl
Keyword(s):  
Life After Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Near Death Experience

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote the book On Life After Death to give her findings on what happens when a person dies. Over the course of 20 years, she found that no matter age, sex, religion, or culture, everyone spoke of the same things happening upon death. The insights and revelations that Kubler-Ross talks about will give a minister help when they speak with someone who is dying or has had a near-death experience.

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