The Inner Experience

Author : Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062245083

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The Inner Experience by Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Pdf

Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life. Never before published except as a series of articles (one per chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its publication.

Author : Russell T. Hurlburt,Christopher L. Heavy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252005

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Exploring Inner Experience by Russell T. Hurlburt,Christopher L. Heavy Pdf

Written for the professional psychologist and philsopher, Exploring Inner Experience shows (a) how DES avoids the traps that destroyed the introspections of the previous century; (b) why DES reports of inner experience should be considered reliable and valid; (c) that DES reports of inner experience are the most accurate that have ever been produced by Western science; and (d) how to use the DES method. This book will be basic reading for all psychologists, philosophers, and students interested in consciousness, as well as anyone (professional or layperson) who is seriously concerned with understanding the human condition or any of its components.

Author : Russell Hurlburt,Eric Schwitzgebel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262516495

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Describing Inner Experience? by Russell Hurlburt,Eric Schwitzgebel Pdf

A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of "Melanie," a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method. Can conscious experience be described accurately? Can we give reliable accounts of our sensory experiences and pains, our inner speech and imagery, our felt emotions? The question is central not only to our humanistic understanding of who we are but also to the burgeoning scientific field of consciousness studies. The two authors of Describing Inner Experience disagree on the answer: Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist, argues that improved methods of introspective reporting make accurate accounts of inner experience possible; Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, believes that any introspective reporting is inevitably prone to error. In this book the two discuss to what extent it is possible to describe our inner experience accurately. Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel recruited a subject, "Melanie," to report on her conscious experience using Hurlburt's Descriptive Experience Sampling method (in which the subject is cued by random beeps to describe her conscious experience). The heart of the book is Melanie's accounts, Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel's interviews with her, and their subsequent discussions while studying the transcripts of the interviews. In this way the authors' dispute about the general reliability of introspective reporting is steadily tempered by specific debates about the extent to which Melanie's particular reports are believable. Transcripts and audio files of the interviews will be available on the MIT Press website. Describing Inner Experience? is not so much a debate as it is a collaboration, with each author seeking to refine his position and to replace partisanship with balanced critical judgment. The result is an illumination of major issues in the study of consciousness—from two sides at once.

Author : David Clarence McClelland
Publisher : Halsted Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Control (Psychology).
ISBN : NWU:35558000599502

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Power by David Clarence McClelland Pdf

Author : Russell T. Hurlburt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139499606

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Investigating Pristine Inner Experience by Russell T. Hurlburt Pdf

You live your entire waking life immersed in your inner experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on) – private phenomena created by you, just for you, your own way. Despite their intimacy and ubiquity, you probably do not know the characteristics of your own inner phenomena; neither does psychology or consciousness science. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience explores how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity. This book will transform your view of your own inner experience, awaken you to experiential differences between people and thereby reframe your thinking about psychology and consciousness science, which banned the study of inner experience for most of a century and yet continued to recognize its fundamental importance. The author, a pioneer in using beepers to explore inner experience, draws on his 35 years of studies to provide fascinating and provocative views of everyday inner experience and experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, virtuosity and more.

Author : Donald D. Price,James J. Barrell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262017657

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Inner Experience and Neuroscience by Donald D. Price,James J. Barrell Pdf

A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Donald Price and James Barrell show how a science of human experience can be developed through a strategy that integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific research on human experience, as well as their philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical results associated with such phenomena as pain and suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and background states of consciousness. In the course of their argument, they draw on empirical results that include qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of experiential and natural science can extend efforts to understand such difficult issues as free will and complex negative emotions including jealousy and greed.

Author : Charles J. Gelso,Jeffrey Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135595791

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Countertransference and the Therapist's Inner Experience by Charles J. Gelso,Jeffrey Hayes Pdf

Countertransference and the Therapist’s Inner Experience explores the inner world of the psychotherapist and its influences on the relationship between psychotherapist and patient. This relationship is a major element determining the success of psychotherapy, in addition to determining how and to what extent psychotherapy works with each individual patient. Authors Charles J. Gelso and Jeffrey A. Hayes present the history and current status of countertransference, offer a theoretically integrative conception, and focus on how psychotherapists can manage countertransference in a way that benefits the therapeutic process. The book contains completely up-to-date data from existing research findings, and illuminates the universality of countertransference across all psychotherapies and psychotherapists. Contents include: *the operation of countertransference across three predominant theory clusters in psychotherapy; *leading factors involved in the management of countertransference; and *valuable recommendations for psychotherapy practitioners and researchers. Professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, psychiatry, social work, and counseling will benefit from this volume. The book is also appropriate for graduate students in these fields.

Author : Katharina T. Kraus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836647

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Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation by Katharina T. Kraus Pdf

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.

Author : Mark Solms,Oliver Turnbull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429920233

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The Brain and the Inner World by Mark Solms,Oliver Turnbull Pdf

This work is an eagerly awaited account of this momentous and ongoing revolution, elaborated for the general reader by two pioneers of the field. The book takes the nonspecialist reader on a guided tour through the exciting new discoveries, pointing out along the way how old psychodynamic concepts are being forged into a new scientific framework for understanding subjective experience – in health and disease.

Author : Gareth Knight
Publisher : Skylight Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781908011039

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Experience of the Inner Worlds by Gareth Knight Pdf

Originally published in 1975, Experience of the Inner Worlds is a classic magical textbook of the Western Mystery Tradition. Covering a wide range of topics within a Christian-oriented Qabalistic framework, Gareth Knight explains the difference between magic and mysticism, natural and revealed religion, monism and theism. He also covers the practicalities, examining methods of inner plane communication, contact with the Masters, the 'consciousness' approach of Carl Jung, the vision of Dante and the archetypal power of the Hebrew alphabet - all within the context of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The book also contains powerful visualisation exercises and examples of communication with angelic and elemental contacts. While this book can be used as a course of self-instruction, it is also an important modern reference book of magical theory and practice, and has been used for decades by students of Western Qabalah and magic.

Author : Theodor Reik
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374518004

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Listening with the Third Ear by Theodor Reik Pdf

Author : Russell T. Hurlburt,Christopher L. Heavey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027293879

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Exploring Inner Experience by Russell T. Hurlburt,Christopher L. Heavey Pdf

Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay attention to their experience at precisely defined moments; participants are then interviewed to obtain high-fidelity accounts of their experience at those moments. Exploring Inner Experience shows (a) how DES uncovers previously unknown details of inner experience; (b) how the implications of this method affect our understanding of inner experience and the human condition more generally; (c) how DES avoids the traps that destroyed the introspections of the previous century; (d) why DES reports of inner experience should be considered reliable and valid; and (e) how to use the DES method. This book will be basic reading for all psychologists, philosophers, and students interested in consciousness, as well as anyone who is seriously concerned with understanding the human condition.(Series B)

Author : William H. Shannon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466801851

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Thomas Merton's Dark Path by William H. Shannon Pdf

In the mystical tradition the "dark," or apophatic way has a long history. It is the way of John of the Cross, of Master Eckhart, of Juliana of Norwich, of the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, and of Thomas Merton. This dark path of contemplation that Merton followed, wrote about extensively, and considered the focal point of his life is the subject of William H. Shannon's book.

Author : Peter Langland-Hassan,Agustin Vicente
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198796640

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Inner Speech by Peter Langland-Hassan,Agustin Vicente Pdf

Inner speech lies at the chaotic intersection of several difficult questions in contemporary philosophy and psychology. On the one hand, these episodes are private mental events. On the other, they resemble speech acts of the sort used in interpersonal communication. Inner speech episodes seem to constitute or express sophisticated trains of conceptual thought but, at the same time, they are motoric in nature and draw on sensorimotor mechanisms for speech production and perception more generally. By using inner speech, we seem to both regulate our bodily actions and gain a unique kind of access to our own beliefs and desires. Inner Speech: New Voices explores this familiar and yet mysterious element of our daily lives, bringing together contributions from leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In response to renewed interest in the general connections between thought, language, and consciousness, these leading thinkers develop a number of important new theories, raise questions about the nature of inner speech and its cognitive functions, and debate the current controversies surrounding the 'little voice in the head.'

Author : Andrew Levitt
Publisher : Riverside Architectural Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781926724348

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The Inner Studio by Andrew Levitt Pdf

The Inner Studio unveils a place of learning inside each of us where we can learn lessons about ourselves that are inseparable from what we design and build. Filled with anecdotes, examples and exercises, The Inner Studio guides readers into deeper levels of our imagination and decision making, focusing squarely on the experience of the designer during the creative act of design. How do designers convert their subjective and often unconscious experience of the world into design? What are the creative consequences of what we may call, designing from within?” Welcome to The Inner Studio.