Thought Forms And Hallucinations

Author : Chidambaram Ramesh
Publisher : www.notionpress.com
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789383808434

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THOUGHT FORMS AND HALLUCINATIONS by Chidambaram Ramesh Pdf

In recent times, the subject of consciousness has emerged as an important paradigm of scientific investigation and research despite most of its concerns having roots in philosophy, religion and occultism. What is consciousness? What is the substance of consciousness? Is it material or immaterial, mortal or immortal? How is it connected with a body? Has it a particular seat in any particular body as the brain does? Is consciousness synonymous with mind? Is it eternal and non-local? These questions have interested thinkers for many centuries. It is the object of this book to demonstrate, through a series of cases reported across the world at various times relating to many curious mind-related phenomena like the creation of mental entities, the imprints of indelible images on the human body, stigmata, birthmarks and bodily deformities corresponding to the injuries sustained in the previous life, thought-photography, materialization experiments etc., that: · Human mind can bring into being thought-forms and can exteriorize them, giving them some objective consistency. · There can be continuity of thoughts even after the destruction of the physical brain. · These psychic entities are sometimes given a kind of autonomy so that they may act and seemingly think without the consent or even knowledge of their creator. The book does not stop with the mere reproduction of recorded cases and just messaging the dimension of the problem, but extends over to solve it by suggesting a bio-holographic theory of body and mind. The book is alike novel, fun-filled, profound and useful, thus affording the blend of interest and instruction which cannot fail to render it interesting to the inquisitive and candid mind.

Author : Annie Besant,C. W. Leadbeater
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780835631402

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Thought Forms by Annie Besant,C. W. Leadbeater Pdf

What do ideas look like? This clairvoyant view of the shape, color, and atmospheric effect of mental energy includes black-and-white drawings and color plates to convey a graphic representation of the power of thought. Prominent Theosophists Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater were pioneers in asserting that thoughts are, indeed, things. Originally released in 1901, Thought-Forms is a seminal work on what thoughts “look” like. It had an impact far beyond the circle of its primary readers and greatly influenced leading artists such as Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. Simple in style and clearly written, Thought Forms is a classic of the Theosophical tradition that has as much to say in our own day as it did a century ago. It lucidly sets forth a way to conceive of the invisible realms within and around us, with implications both for how we view the world and how we act in it. Discussion includes the meaning of color, thought forms built by music, and the nature of helpful thoughts. Based on the authors’ clairvoyant vision, its illustrations suggest the form thoughts take in relation, for instance, to anger, fear, intellect, sympathy, devotion, and a meditative state. Annie Besant herself describes the book’s purpose as being to “serve as a striking moral lesson to every reader, making him realize the nature and power of his thoughts, acting as a stimulus to the noble and a curb to the base. With this belief and hope we send it on its way.”

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307402196

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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Pdf

Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication--even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.

Author : Peter Langland-Hassan,Agustin Vicente
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Brad Bowins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315514123

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Mental Illness Defined by Brad Bowins Pdf

Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing therapeutic interventions. Psychopathology currently lacks a unifying framework. Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, and Defense provides such a framework by filling the knowledge gap. Continuums, as opposed to numerous discrete entities, characterize mental illness. Impaired regulation fosters extreme expressions of mental illness continuums, an occurrence that can be compensated for by "cognitive regulatory control therapies." Defenses tend to moderate behavior, although excessive levels foster dysfunction, as with personality disorders. The model presented aligns with neuroscience and other relevant data, thereby placing psychopathology on a more scientific foundation to advance the aims of both researchers and treatment providers.

Author : Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107007222

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Hearing Voices by Simon McCarthy-Jones Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Author : Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429750946

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Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine by Christopher C. H. Cook Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory. It is proposed that in the incarnation, Christian faith finds both an understanding of what it is to be fully human (a theological anthropology), and God’s perfect self-disclosure (revelation). Within such an understanding, revelatory voices represent a key point of interpersonal encounter between human beings and God.

Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262036719

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Real Hallucinations by Matthew Ratcliffe Pdf

A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion. In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other people. He focuses on the seemingly simple question of how we manage to distinguish among our experiences of perceiving, remembering, imagining, and thinking. To answer this question, he first develops a detailed analysis of auditory verbal hallucinations (usually defined as hearing a voice in the absence of a speaker) and thought insertion (somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's). He shows how thought insertion and many of those experiences labeled as “hallucinations” consist of disturbances in a person's sense of being in one type of intentional state rather than another. Ratcliffe goes on to argue that such experiences occur against a backdrop of less pronounced but wider-ranging alterations in the structure of intentionality. In so doing, he considers forms of experience associated with trauma, schizophrenia, and profound grief. The overall position arrived at is that experience has an essentially temporal structure, involving patterns of anticipation and fulfillment that are specific to types of intentional states and serve to distinguish them phenomenologically. Disturbances of this structure can lead to various kinds of anomalous experience. Importantly, anticipation-fulfillment patterns are sustained, regulated, and disrupted by interpersonal experience and interaction. It follows that the integrity of human experience, including the most basic sense of self, is inseparable from how we relate to other people and to the social world as a whole.

Author : Richard P Bentall
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141909325

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Madness Explained by Richard P Bentall Pdf

Today most of us accept the consensus that madness is a medical condition: an illness, which can be identified, classified and treated with drugs like any other. In this ground breaking and controversial work Richard Bentall shatters the myths that surround madness. He shows there is no reassuring dividing line between mental health and mental illness. Severe mental disorders can no longer be reduced to brain chemistry, but must be understood psychologically, as part of normal behaviour andhuman nature. Bentall argues that we need a radically new way of thinking about psychosis and its treatment. Could it be that it is a fear of madness, rather than the madness itself, that is our problem?

Author : Patricia Casey,Brendan Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108456340

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Fish's Clinical Psychopathology by Patricia Casey,Brendan Kelly Pdf

A clear and concise guide to help recognise the signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness in clinical care.

Author : Katherine J. Aitchison,Robin M. Murray,Patrick J. Power,Eva M. Tsapakis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780429524141

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First Episode Psychosis by Katherine J. Aitchison,Robin M. Murray,Patrick J. Power,Eva M. Tsapakis Pdf

The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management. This is an authoritative text written by a team of highly respected authors for psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care practitioners and health care professional working in psychiatry. Drawing from their experience, the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode are discussed, details regarding antipsychotic drugs and their appropriate use are reviewed and psychosocial approaches are examined. The resulting book offers a concise and valuable guide to those wishing to review the latest proposals for the treatment of first-episode psychosis supported by up-to-date references, in a single publication.

Author : Giovanni Stanghellini,Thomas Fuchs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199609253

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One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology by Giovanni Stanghellini,Thomas Fuchs Pdf

2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science with the publication of his magnum opus the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology), Many of the issues concerning methodology and diagnosis are today the subject of much discussion and debate. This volume brings together leading psychiatrists and philosophers to discuss the impact of this volume, its relevance today, and the legacy it left.

Author : Julius Bourke,Matthew Castle
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780723434764

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Psychiatry by Julius Bourke,Matthew Castle Pdf

Aimed at medical students and junior doctors, 'Mosby's Crash Course Psychiatry' takes a problem orientated approach based on good clinical practice. It presents basic knowledge in a simple, concise manner to promote understanding and retention of facts.

Author : Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Hallucinations and illusions
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005283874

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Hallucinations by Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont Pdf

Author : Daniel Pilowsky,William Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015012586106

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Hallucinations in Children by Daniel Pilowsky,William Chambers Pdf