XL. Remembering Has No Experiential Content (P. 231)

2019 ◽  
pp. 748-753
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Content

scholarly journals Dimensions of Experience: Exploring the Heterogeneity of the Wandering Mind

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Ting Wang ◽  
Giulia Poerio ◽  
Charlotte Murphy ◽  
Danilo Bzdok ◽  
Elizabeth Jefferies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Executive Control ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Multivariate Pattern Analysis ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Multivariate Pattern ◽  
The Mind

The tendency for the mind to wander to concerns other than the task at hand is a fundamental feature of human cognition, yet the consequences of variations in its experiential content for psychological functioning are not well understood. Here, we adopted multivariate pattern analysis to simultaneously decompose experience-sampling data and neural functional-connectivity data, which revealed dimensions that simultaneously describe individual variation in self-reported experience and default-mode-network connectivity. We identified dimensions corresponding to traits of positive-habitual thoughts and spontaneous task-unrelated thoughts. These dimensions were uniquely related to aspects of cognition, such as executive control and the ability to generate information in a creative fashion, and independently distinguished well-being measures. These data provide the most convincing evidence to date for an ontological view of the mind-wandering state as encompassing a broad range of different experiences and show that this heterogeneity underlies mind wandering’s complex relationship to psychological functioning.

An Assessment of Contextual Mediation in Trance States of Shamanic Journeys

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Houran ◽  
Rense Lange ◽  
Michelle Crist-Houran
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
Contextual Variables ◽  
Biochemical Effects ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Experiential Content

30 experiences of shamanic journeys derived from Harner (1990) were analyzed based on a recent coding scheme for contextual variables proposed by Lange, Houran, Harte, and Havens. Consistent with previous research, the experiential content of the trances was quite consistent with the content of the available contextual variables, and embedded cues in particular ( r = .68, p < .001). As predicted, trance states of shamanic journeys are sufficiently structured to suppress contextual effects on the modality of experience. The findings suggest that the contents of shamanic trance are not solely influenced by psychopathology, biochemical effects, or cultural influences.

scholarly journals LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF THE ISPRS STUDENT CONSORTIUM

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
I. Detchev ◽  
U. Kanjir ◽  
S. R. Reyes ◽  
H. Miyazaki ◽  
A. F. Aktas
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Summer Schools ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Share Information

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Student Consortium (SC) is a network for young professionals studying or working within the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and other related geo-spatial sciences. The main goal of the network is to provide means for information exchange for its young members and thus help promote and integrate youth into the ISPRS. Over the past four years the Student Consortium has successfully continued to fulfil its mission in both formal and informal ways. The formal means of communication of the SC are its website, newsletter, e-mail announcements and summer schools, while its informal ones are multiple social media outlets and various social activities during student related events. The newsletter is published every three to four months and provides both technical and experiential content relevant for the young people in the ISPRS. The SC has been in charge or at least has helped with organizing one or more summer schools every year. The organization's e-mail list has over 1,100 subscribers, its website hosts over 1,300 members from 100 countries across the entire globe, and its public Facebook group currently has over 4,500 joined visitors, who connect among one another and share information relevant for their professional careers. These numbers show that the Student Consortium has grown into a significant online-united community. The paper will present the organization’s on-going and past activities for the last four years, its current priorities and a strategic plan and aspirations for the future four-year period.

scholarly journals Oscillatory Components of Psychedelic Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 002216782110418
Author(s):  
Paul Grof
Keyword(s):  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Psychedelic Drug ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Oscillatory Brain Activity ◽  
The Brain

As humanity has been utilizing psychedelic substances for millennia, much knowledge has already been accumulated about the exploratory potential and therapeutic power of the psychedelic-induced nonordinary states of consciousness (NSC). However, we still have only a limited understanding of the process that unfolds in mind and the brain. Only recently have systematic investigations become possible, as the myths about psychedelics are abating and the legal strictures gradually loosening. With the availability of brain imaging techniques, exciting findings have been made about the associated dynamic brain processes. Our prospective observations of spontaneously generated NSC, major mood disorders, have been elucidating another dynamic aspect, the oscillatory brain processes. The findings indicate that the NSC’s propensity is markedly increased at the peaks of the oscillatory brain activity and that the NSC entirely unfolds when the oscillations exceed their normal range. The observation that neurobiological correlates of experientially opposite NSC, melancholy and mania, appear qualitatively the same is compatible with the concept that the experiential content is emerging from nonlocal consciousness. Psychedelic experiences are triggered by the administration of the psychedelic drug. However, they are influenced by nondrug factors and molded, in particular, by the individual’s mental set and the setting of the session. The transformative process can be utilized psychotherapeutically for healing and profound inner restructuring.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education at Mtech, University of Maryland

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1129-1153
Author(s):  
James V. Green ◽  
David F. Barbe
Keyword(s):  
New Ventures ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

As universities recognize that an entrepreneurial education is an enabler, entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as higher education's ally. Today, more than 5,000 entrepreneurship courses are offered in over 2,000 college and universities in the United States (U.S.) (Kauffman, 2009). Entrepreneurship education is extending beyond its traditional business school offerings to engineering, arts, and sciences schools as educators develop specialized, experiential content most relevant to their student populations. The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), a unit of the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is a global leader in entrepreneurship education (Barbe, Green, & Chang, 2010). Mtech's award-winning programs are being replicated throughout the U.S. and abroad to serve entrepreneurial students in pursuit of new ventures. Mtech's entrepreneurship courses and programs have more than 1,000 student enrollments annually. This chapter introduces Mtech's approach to entrepreneurship education, defines the inner workings of Mtech's entrepreneurship education initiatives, and discusses best practices and lessons learned.

scholarly journals Textual and interpersonal differences between a news report and an editorial

2007 ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne McCabe ◽  
Karl Heilman
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
News Report ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Experiential Content

While news reports and editorials may center on very similar experiential content, obviously, their purposes are very different: to inform in the case of the report, and to argue for a particular line of thought on a given situation in the editorial. This paper demonstrates how systemic functional linguistics (SFL) can highlight just how these different ends are achieved linguistically, focusing on the textual meta-function through Theme choice and through the use of textual adjuncts, and on the interpersonal meta-function, through choices in the system of APPRAISAL, especially through the sub-systems of ATTITUDE and ENGAGEMENT. Results from analysis of a news report and an editorial show that the editorial indeed does make recourse to more overtly present interpersonal devices; this is not to say that the news report disguises the authorial presence entirely, as textual devices, such as conjuncts like however, indicate what a writer’s expectations of his/her readers are.

scholarly journals Recreational Psychedelic Users Frequently Encounter Complete Mystical Experiences: Trip Content and Implications for Wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianhong Tim Qiu ◽  
John Paul Minda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Psychometric Data ◽  
Use Context ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Large Survey

A growing proportion of the population is engaging in recreational psychedelic use. Psychedelics are uniquely capable of reliably occasioning mystical experiences in ordinary humans without contemplative or religious backgrounds. While clinical research has made efforts to characterize psychedelic experiences, comparably little is understood about how humans naturalistically engage with psychedelics. The present study employs a mixed-methods approach to examine the content and implications of psychedelic and mystical experiences, occurring outside of laboratory settings. We use text mining analyses to arrive at a qualitative description of psychedelic experiential content by abstracting from over two-thousand written reports of first-person psychedelic experiences. Following up, we conducted quantitative analyses on psychometric data from a large survey (N = 1424) to reveal associations between psychedelic use practices, complete mystical experiences, and psychological wellbeing. Topic-modelling and sentiment analyses present a bottom-up description of human interactions with psychedelic compounds and the content of such experiences. Psychometric results suggest psychedelic users encounter complete mystical experiences in high proportions, dependent on factors such as drug type and dose-response effects. Furthermore, a salient association was established between diverse metrics of wellbeing and those with complete mystical experiences. Our results paint a new picture of the growing relationships between humans and psychedelic experiences in the real-world use context. Ordinary humans appear to encounter complete mystical experiences via recreational psychedelic use, and such experiences are strongly associated with improved psychological wellbeing.

scholarly journals 瀕死經驗的解釋及其在哲學上的限制

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
William SIN
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
Experiential Content ◽  
Exact Moment ◽  
Near Death Experiences

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.The objective of this paper is to reject Kwan’s claim in his paper “Does the Soul Exist? What Near-Death Experiences Reveal.” As Kwan draws heavily on references from Pim van Lommel, I also reject van Lommel’s position. Kwan and van Lommel’s claim is that the phenomenon of NDE supports the view that people’s experiential content and their consciousness exist independently of their physical bodies. I raise three objections to Kwan. First, I argue that there is a fundamental difference between life and death; therefore, the phenomena of NDE may give us little idea of whether some form of experience exists after death. Second, there is no evidence that an NDE happens at the exact moment the patient’s body shuts down. Third, the potential biological and physiological explanations of NDE are excluded by Kwan and van Lammel without good reason, and the explanations they offer to replace them are far from convincing.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 181 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

scholarly journals Pleasant Musical Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkki Huovinen ◽  
Kai Tuuri
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Musical Imagery ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Experiential Content

This article introduces the notion of pleasant musical imagery (PMI) for denoting everyday phenomena where people want to cherish music “in their heads.” This account differs from current paradigms for studying musical imagery in that it is not based a priori on (in)voluntariness of the experience. An empirical investigation of the structure and experiential content in 50 persons’ experiences of PMI applied the elicitation interview method. Peer judgments of the interviews helped to bridge a phenomenological investigation of particular experiences with systematic between-subjects analysis. Both structural features of the imagery (e.g., Looseness of structure or Looping) and content features of the imagery (e.g., Embodied evocativeness and Object-directedness) showed significant associations with participants’ individual characteristics, personality, and/or cognitive style. The approach taken suggests a new paradigm for studying musical imagery—one that is based on tracing the interactional and enactive processes of “inner listening.”

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