scholarly journals Truth, body and religion

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarl-Thure Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
New Information ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Stored Information

This paper is based on the words of welcome to the symposium on Religion and the Body on 16 June 2010.  In a religious context ‘truth’ is like a mantra, a certain imperative to believe in sacred things. The concept of truth and falseness arises, when we as humans compare reality, as we experience it through our senses, with the representation we have in our memory, a comparison of new information with stored information. If we look for the truth, we have to search in the human mind. There we will also find religion.

Discipline

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan S. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Medical Regimen ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Or Economics ◽  
The Mind

There are broadly five interconnected meanings of the noun ‘discipline’. Disciplinawere instructions to disciples, and hence a branch of instruction or department of knowledge. This religious context provided the modern educational notion of a ‘body of knowledge’, or a discipline such as sociology or economics. We can define discipline as a body of knowledge and knowledge for the body, because the training of the mind has inevitably involved a training of the body. Second, it signified a method of training or instruction in a body of knowledge. Discipline had an important military connection involving drill, practice in the use of weapons. Third, there is an ecclesiastical meaning referring to a system of rules by which order is maintained in a church. It included the use of penal methods to achieve obedience. To discipline is to chastise. Fourth, to discipline is to bring about obedience through various forms of punishment; it is a means of correction. Finally there is a rare use of the term to describe a medical regimen in which ‘doctor's orders’ brings about a discipline of the patient. In contemporary society, there is, following the work of Michel Foucault, the notion of increasing personal regulation resulting in a ‘disciplinary society’ or a society based upon carceral institutions.

scholarly journals Ecstasy from a physiological point of view

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaj Björkqvist
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Study ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Psychosomatic Diseases ◽  
The Brain

The biological study of man is one of today's most rapidly advancing sciences. There is no reason for not utilizing these methodologies of research and the knowledge already gained when studying ecstasy and other similar religious phenomena. Drugs have been used in all parts of the world as an ecstasy technique. Since mental states and physiological correlates always accompany each other, it is obvious that the human mind can be affected by external means, for instance by drugs. But the opposite is also true; mental changes affect the body, as they do in the case of psychosomatic diseases. Ecstasy is often described as an extremely joyful experience; this pleasure must necessarily also have a physiological basis. It is of course too early to say anything for certain, but the discovery of pleasure centres in the brain might offer an explanation. It is not far-fetched to suggest that when a person experiences euphoric ecstasy, it might, in some way or other, be connected with a cerebral pleasure center. Can it be, for example, that religious ecstasy is attained only by some mechanism triggering off changes in the balance of the transmitter substances? Or is it reached only via a change in the hormonal balance, or only by a slowing down of the brain waves, or is a pleasure centre activated? When a person is using an ecstasy technique, he usually does so within a religious tradition. When he reaches an experience, a traditional interpretation of it already exists.

scholarly journals Terapi Menulis untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Kognitif Pecandu Narkoba di Lapas Dewasa Kota Blitar

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Miza Rahmatika Aini ◽  
Hesty Puspitasari
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Neural Circuits ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
New Information ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Modern Era

Drugs is the term for narcotics, psychotropic substances and other dangerous. The term often used is DRUGS (Narcotics, Alcohol, Psychotropics and other addictive substances) Around us today, there are a lot of addictive substances that are negative and very harmful to the body. Known as narcotics and illegal drugs. In this sophisticated modern era, drugs have become a problem for mankind in various parts of the world. Drugs that can destroy bright reasoning destroy body and soul, inevitably can threaten the future of mankind. In life, a critical step of the neurodevelopmental process, drug abuse may be caused brain plasticity mechanisms that can induce long-lasting improvements in neural circuits and in the end, actions. One of the effects of these improvements is the disability. Cognitive functions, with negative academic effects on the acquisition of new information.  Knowing those phenomena, the researcher had alternative therapy for increasing their cognitive functions. The researcher used writing as a therapy for them. The advantages of writing are immense, but they are also underestimated. Writing has profound therapeutic benefits. Writing is also a healthy brain exercise to activate brain cells and boost memory. This research conducted in Adult Prison in Blitar city, in which 15 drug prisoners were treated into writing theraphy. The result is they could write as well as the icreasing of their cognition.    

Threshold

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Castrucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Mind

The human mind has phased out its traditional anchorage in a natural biological basis (the «reasons of the body» which even Spinoza’s Ethics could count on) – an anchorage that had determined, for at least two millennia, historically familiar forms of culture and civilisation. Increasingly emphasising its intellectual disembodiment, it has come to the point of establishing in a completely artificial way the normative conditions of social behaviour and the very ontological collocation of human beings in general. If in the past ‘God’ was the name that mythopoietic activity had assigned to the world’s overall moral order, which was reflected onto human behaviour, now the progressive freeing of the mind – by way of the intellectualisation of life and technology – from the natural normativity which was previously its basic material reference opens up unforeseen vistas of power. Freedom of the intellect demands (or so one believes) the full artificiality of the normative human order in the form of an artificial logos, and precisely qua artificial, omnipotent. The technological icon of logos (which postmodern dispersion undermines only superficially) definitively unseats the traditional normative, sovereign ‘God’ of human history as he has been known till now. Our West has been irreversibly marked by this process, whose results are as devastating as they are inevitable. The decline predicted a century ago by old Spengler is here served on a platter....

Human Evolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Complex Systems Theory ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Intelligent Activity

The main events and circumstances of human evolution are considered: classification of hominids, first descriptions, localization, chronology; artifacts characterizing their material and cultural activities; modern reconstruction of lifestyle and resettlement; and modern theories explaining the structural features of hominids and the processes of their occurrence. The manifestations of intelligent activity are discussed, in particular, their dependence from the structure of the body, the size, and complexity of the brain, for which comparisons with various animals are made. Particular attention is paid to unresolved or controversial issues. This material is necessary to assess the possibilities of the self-organization of complex systems theory (second chapter): if it adequately models the characteristics of a human's origin, then it can be used to understand the evolution of human mind and in the subsequent period, up to the current state.

Calculations and Correction Factors Used in Determination of Blood pH and Blood Gases

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1499-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W Burnett ◽  
Daniel C Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Blood Gases ◽  
The Body ◽  
Electronic Data Processing ◽  
Correction Factors ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Blood Ph ◽  
New Information

Abstract Measurement of blood pH, po2 and pco2 also involves calculation of two or more derived quantities and correction of the measured values in cases where the body temperature of the patient differs from the temperature of measurement. References to the pertinent calculations and the temperature corrections are scattered through the literature of several medical specialties, and much new information has been gathered in recent years that directly affects these calculations. This review explains each of the derived quantities and correction factors most used in this field and also provides the best available data for the calculations, in a form that can readily be adapted to electronic data processing.

The Body Identical With the Human Mind

The Monist ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-601
Author(s):  
Douglas Odegard ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body

Somatic Poetry

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Uzendoski ◽  
Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Speech ◽  
Ritual Healing ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores the poetic qualities and nuances of the art of ritual healing, a genre termed as “somatic poetry.” Flowing out from the emphasis of the body as a site of social and cosmological action in the Amazonian world, somatic poetry is multimodal art created by listening, feeling, smelling, seeing, and tasting of natural subjectivities, not just those emanating from human speech or from the human mind. Somatic poetry involves the creative use of words and music and also plants, animals, and the landscape—entities recognized as having subjectivity and creative powers, powers that are internal rather than external to the art. The chapter provides one example of Amazonian somatic poetry, a healing practice called kushnirina, a medicinal vapor bath designed to cleanse and provide energy for the body. It then comments on Federico Calapucha's manioc story and a shamanic song performed by Lucas Tapuy in 2007. These examples show that somatic poetry is about creating loops of intersecting relationships with different species and unseen subjectivities of the landscape and the spirit world.

Human Cognition and Emotion using Physio Psychological Approach : A Survey

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Amutha ◽  
Bobin Kurian ◽  
Karthick Nanmaran, ◽  
N. Parvathi ◽  
G. Sivagami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Stored Information ◽  
The Military

A soldier’s responsibility in the military includes his physical and mental attitudes which makes him to support the army in a full-fledged manner. This type of human dimension recognizes Soldier readiness from training proficiency to motivation for the Army’s future success. It introduces the concept of holistic fitness, a comprehensive combination of the whole person, including all components of the human dimension as a triad of moral, cognitive and physical components. The human dimension concept is directly related to the human mind and memory system. In this research, a system which will be capable of recognizing human emotions based on physiological parameters of a human body is discussed. The data from the system is fed to a computer where it is stored. Stored information regarding human parameters is retrieved and classified using support vector machine to generate a data set about the various emotions the human poses at a specific situation. The emotion, thus calculated is grouped to generate a grade for his present status. This grade is used to recommend the suitable working environment for the person.

Classifications in Psychiatry: A Conceptual History

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
German E. Berrios
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Time Frames

Background: Historical accounts of psychiatric classifications have hitherto been written in terms of a ‘received view’. This contains two assumptions, that: (i) the activity of classifying is inherent to the human mind; and (ii) psychiatric ‘phenomena’ are stable natural objects. Objectives: The aim of this article is to provide an outline of the evolution of psychiatric classifications from the perspective of conceptual history. This is defined as a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the principles, sortal techniques and contexts in which alienists carried out their task. It assumes that all psychiatric classifications are cultural products, and endeavours to answer the question of whether classificatory models imported from the natural sciences can be applied to man-made constructs (such as mental illness) definitionally based on ‘personalised semantics’. Methods: Exemplars of classificatory activity are first mapped and contextualised. Then, it is suggested that in each historical period crafting classifications has been like playing a game of chess with each move being governed by rules. This is illustrated by offering an analysis of the 1860–1861 French debate on classification. Results and Conclusions: (1) Medicine is not a contemplative but a modificatory activity and hence classifications are only valuable if they can release new information about the object classified. (2) It should not be inferred from the fact that psychiatric classifications are not working well (i.e. that they only behave as actuarial devices) that they must be given up. Conceptual work needs to continue to identify ‘invariants’ (i.e. stable elements that anchor classifications to ‘nature’. (3) Because mental disorders are more than unstable behavioural epiphenomena wrapped around stable molecular changes, ‘neurobiological’ invariants may not do. Stability depends upon time frames. Furthermore, it is unlikely that gene-based classifications will ever be considered as classifications of mental disorders. For once, they would have low predictive power because of their lack of information about the defining codes of mental illness. ‘Social’ and ‘psychological’ invariants have problems of their own.

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