Meditation-- neuroscientific approaches and philosophical implications [electronic resource] / Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach, editors.
Schmidt, Stefan, 1967 September 30-, editor of compilation.; Walach, Harald, editor of compilation.
2014
BF637.M4
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Title Meditation-- neuroscientific approaches and philosophical implications [electronic resource] / Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach, editors.
ISBN 9783319016344 electronic book
3319016342 electronic book
9783319016337
3319016334
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01634-4
Published Cham : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 411 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-01634-4 doi
Call Number BF637.M4
Dewey Decimal Classification 158.12
Summary This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are so called "higher states of consciousness" that some people report during meditation pointing towards a new understanding of consciousness? Meditation research is a new discipline that shows new inroads into the study of consciousness. If a meditative practice changes brain structure itself this is direct proof of the causal influence of consciousness onto its substrate. If different states of consciousness can be linked with properties and states of the brain this can be used to study consciousness more directly. If the sense of self is modifiable through meditative techniques and this can be objectively shown through neuro-imaging, this has profound implications for our understanding of who we are. Can consciousness, in deep states of meditative absorption, actually access some aspect of reality which we normally don't? Meditation research can potentially foster us with a new access to the phenomenological method in general. This has even been branded with a new catch-phrase: Contemplative Science. It brings together the most modern neuroscientific approach and the most advanced phenomenological methodology of studying the mind from within, through highly skilled self-observation that has gone through many thousand hours of honing the capacity to look carefully, without distraction. This book addresses these issues by bringing together some of the leading researchers and thinkers in the field. The scope of the volume reaches from first person neuroscience to Indian philosophy, from pedagogic applications to epistemological aspects and from compassion meditation to the study of brain activity.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 25, 2013).
Added Author Schmidt, Stefan, 1967 September 30-, editor of compilation.
Walach, Harald, editor of compilation.
Series Studies in neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality ; v.2.
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Introduction: Laying out the Field of Meditation Research, S. Schmidt, H. Walach.-Towards an Epistemology of Inner Experience, H. Walach
The Meditative Approach to Awaken Selfless Insight, W.J.H. Austin
Meditation as First-Person Methodology: Real Promise-and Problems, J. Shear
Using First-Person Reports during Meditation to Investigate Basic Cognitive Experience, W. Hasenkamp
I am I from moment to moment: Methods and results of grasping intersubjective and intertemporal neurophysiological differences during Meditation states, T. Hinterberger
Does neuroimaging provide evidence of meditation-mediated neuroplasticity? S. Clausen, et al
Opening up Meditation for Science: The development of a meditation classification system, S. Schmidt
The Neurobiology of Meditation and Mindfulness T. Esch
Meditation Effects in the Social Domain: Self-Other Connectedness as a General Mechanism? F-M. Trautwein, et al
Mindfulness Meditation and the Experience of Time, M. Wittmann and S. Schmidt
Meditation and Hypnosis at the Intersection between Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, M. Lifshitz, et al
Insights from Quiet Minds: The Converging Fields of Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering, M.D. Mrazek, et al
Can Contemplative Science Bring Meditation to (Western) Life? N.A.S. Farb
Spiritual Phenomena as Public Goods: Exploring Meditation beyond the Standard Model, T. Falkenberg
Does Meditation Give Us Unique Insight into Ultimate Reality? The Ethical Aim of Buddhism, H. Edge
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A Philosophical Analysis, A.L.C. Runehov
The Concept of Tri-Guna: A Working Model, M. Puta and P. Sedlmeier
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A specifically Tailored Training Program: Concept, Implementation and Empirical Results Vera Kaltwasser, S. Sauer, N. Kohls.

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