scholarly journals When the Poison Is the Cure—Healing and Embodiment in Contemporary Śrividyā Tantra of the Lalitāmbikā Temple

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Maciej Karasinski-Sroka
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Emic And Etic ◽  
Meditative Practices

This paper discusses the healing practices of samayācāra Śrīvidyā, a Hindu Tantric tradition. This study is based on field research conducted in the Śrī Lalitāmbikā temple in Coimbatore, India. The tradition not only advocates inner ritualism, but also focuses on healing practices derived from Tantric sources. By using both emic and etic approaches, this paper attempts to show how the rituals and Śrīvidyā meditative practices became incorporated into this system of healing and well-being. A further aim of this paper is to indicate how various forms of embodiment and healing define the spiritual practice of Lalitāmbikā Śrīvidyā.

Through the Lens of Gurdjieff

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Michael Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Spiritual Conversation

G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations, this article explores the continuing significance of spiritual practice and tradition and the ways that these forms remain relevant in shaping contemporary trends in spirituality. Beginning with Gurdjieff’s use of legominism, the article provides reflection on some early findings done in field research in Turkey— through site visits, interviews and participant-observation—conducted in the summers of 2014 and 2015. The aim of the project is both to meet individuals and groups, particularly connected to Sufism, that may have some contact with the influences that Gurdjieff would have been familiar with, and to visit some of the sites that were part of Gurdjieff’s early background and which served to inform his work. Considerations of contemporary practices include the view of spiritual transmission, and practices of pilgrimage, prayer and sohbet, or spiritual conversation, in an ongoing discourse about spiritual transformation.

scholarly journals Understanding music’s therapeutic efficacy: Implications for music education

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Thram
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Average Person ◽  
Computer Addiction ◽  
Actual Participation

In the current era of electronic domination of human experience, be it via cell phone and/or computer addiction, or the ubiquitous television, actual participation in music- making is less and less common for the average person, child or adult. Passive participation through listening is most often cited by people as their major experience with music in their lives. When asked if listening has therapeutic effects, it is rare for anyone to respond in the negative. Likewise, for performers/active participants in music- making, be it solitary or as part of a group, invariably an enhanced sense of well-being from the act of making music is reported.This paper addresses therapeutic aspects of musical participation (singing, clapping, playing an instrument, dancing, listening) by providing a historical overview (12th c to present) of attitudes toward music’s therapeutic effects. It argues that music exists through the interaction of our biological capacity to make music with our cultural circumstances. How individuals benefit in all aspects their being – physical, mental and emotional – from engaging in the act of making music is illustrated with examples from field research in southern Africa. Finally implications for Music Education are explored which emphasize how more comprehensive integration of music into the curriculum can serve as an antidote to the increasing isolation and alienation of modern life.

Historical Background to Research on Job Loss, Unemployment, and Job Search

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.T. Feather
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Research Survey

This chapter provides a selective review of past research on job loss, unemployment, and job search up to the beginning of the 1990s. The Great Depression studies in the 1930s at Marienthal by Jahoda and colleagues and by Bakke at Greenwich and New Haven are described, along with other research at the time. These early studies sowed the seeds for subsequent research programs in England, Europe, and Australia; the theories that emerged from this early and later research are described. They include stage theory, deprivation theory, agency theory, and vitamin theory. Other more general approaches—such as stress and coping models and expectancy-value theory—are also described as relevant to the unemployment experience. The historical review provides lessons about the importance of using a variety of methodologies that include descriptive field research, survey and questionnaire studies, longitudinal research, and research across cultures. It also suggests that progress will involve the application of midrange theories about work, paid employment, and unemployment targeted to particular issues such as psychological well-being, health-related problems, social and family effects, and job-search behavior.

Trends in Wearable Technologies for Earth Science

2018 ◽  
pp. 1339-1360
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Woolman
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Current Trends

In this chapter, we discuss the need for wearable technologies for earth science field research, a discipline that can be both extremely physically rigorous and even potentially dangerous at times. The field is also technically challenging because of environmental conditions as well as often being conducted in remote offline regions. Current trends in available wearable technology devices suitable for earth science applications are explored, in addition to describing possible modifications to existing wearable technologies in order to make them deployable, practical offline-capable geoscience systems. Offline Health and safety monitoring systems designed to operate on a low-powered personal body-area network system as well as offline (non-internet dependent) wearable communication technologies are particularly addressed. These types of wearable technologies represent some of the most complex aspects in this field as well being some of the most customizable systems with highly configurable components for remote back country fieldwork functionality.

Trends in Wearable Technologies for Earth Science

2016 ◽  
pp. 248-268
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Woolman
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Current Trends

In this chapter, we discuss the need for wearable technologies for earth science field research, a discipline that can be both extremely physically rigorous and even potentially dangerous at times. The field is also technically challenging because of environmental conditions as well as often being conducted in remote offline regions. Current trends in available wearable technology devices suitable for earth science applications are explored, in addition to describing possible modifications to existing wearable technologies in order to make them deployable, practical offline-capable geoscience systems. Offline Health and safety monitoring systems designed to operate on a low-powered personal body-area network system as well as offline (non-internet dependent) wearable communication technologies are particularly addressed. These types of wearable technologies represent some of the most complex aspects in this field as well being some of the most customizable systems with highly configurable components for remote back country fieldwork functionality.

Different intelligences’ role in overcoming the differences in employee value system

Kybernetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Živa Veingerl Čič ◽  
Matjaž Mulej ◽  
Simona Šarotar Žižek
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Value System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Distribution ◽  
Employee Value

Purpose This paper aims to present the findings of the research about the role of different intelligences in overcoming the differences in employee value system as a source of success. Design/methodology/approach Based on their previous research, the authors used desk and informal field research, the Dialectical Systems Theory and its Law of Requisite Holism. Findings The integration of one’s personal development with one’s individual intelligence influences human value systems. Knowledge and developing of various types of intelligence matter: it lets individuals develop faster, in the long run. The higher one’s level of intelligence is, the easier one finds it to face problems or experience. Thus, one is becoming a mature personality, who can overcome extreme alternatives to the briefed human values. This process can also receive meaningful support from the exercise of social responsibility, which is one’s responsibility for one’s impacts on society, i.e. people and nature. Success of the process depends on “personal requisite holism”. The top managers need significantly more emotional and social competences than the others. Research limitations/implications The topic is researched with qualitative analysis in desk and informal field research. Quantitative methodological approach took place in the authors’ cited previous publications. Practical implications Work distribution makes the leaders and subordinates differ in prevailing values, too. Mastering of these differences will support business success, survival of jobs included and well-being of coworkers from both groups. Application of the cognitive, emotional and spiritual intelligences might help the organization meet this need. The fourth – physical intelligence – supports ensuring the psychological well-being at work; from this, other mentioned intelligences have been developed. Mastering of these differences can also receive support from methods of creative cooperation, social responsibility and personal requisite holism; the authors have reported about these elsewhere, and only point to these in this study. Social implications The more holistic intelligences system generates a more socially responsible society. Originality/value No similar concept is offered in the available literature.

Studying the Effects of Meditation: The First Fifty Years

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Oman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Physiological Measurement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Study Designs ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Meditative Practices

This chapter traces the history of modern meditation research. Meditation is conceptualized primarily as a seated practice for systematically training attention. Historically present in every major religion, meditation was traditionally used for spiritual purposes and usually accompanied by ancillary practices, such as spiritual fellowship. This chapter traces the dynamics and evolving interplay between dominant conceptions and forms of meditative practices under scientific study, as well as critiques of those conceptions, research questions, study designs, measurement instruments, and public reception and application. It describes how developments in each of these spheres have at different times opened up new lines of research, sometimes transforming other dimensions of ongoing research and practice. For the past fifty years, modern meditation research has progressed through partly overlapping periods that emphasized physiological measurement and secular adaptations; links to numerous health and well-being outcomes; emphasis on a sui generis psychosocial goal (mindfulness); advances in physiological and questionnaire-based empirical measurement; expansion of public, corporate, and governmental interest; increased concerns about abandonment of ethical bases and cultural context; and initial moves toward greater inclusiveness and integration of diverse methods and traditional perspectives.

scholarly journals Measures to Improve the Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evandro Leonel Pereira ◽  
Aristides Sebastião Lopes Carneiro ◽  
Eder Ruschel ◽  
Marcio De Lima Corcovado ◽  
Jordan Da Silva Paiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Infrastructures ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Current Context

In the current context of global interconnectivity, the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures (CI) is of utmost importance to the private and public sectors. In this regard, based on the analysis of elaborated guidelines and norms, gaps were identified that may hinder the implementation of CI protection measures, facing threats of all kinds, affecting population well-being, economic power and contributing to weakening the reputation of a country in the concert of nations. Considering the dynamic nature and the speed of technological evolution, this study aims to raise subsidies for the improvement of the cybersecurity of CI in Brazil, pointing out norms to be elaborated or adopted, good practices and strategic actions to be followed. The methodology used in the development of this work begins with bibliographic and document research, and through comparative analysis, points out the most relevant, existing standards and initiatives. A diagnosis of the Brazilian situation is provided including field research, a solution proposal and finally an analytical discussion of proposed actions.

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