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The beneficial effects of meditation: contribution of the anterior cingulate and locus coeruleus [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 During fMRI studies of meditation the cortical salience detecting and executive networks become active during awareness of mind wandering, shifting and sustained attention.
Nancy Alker Craigmyle
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Deliteralizing Christianity: Gurdjieff and Almznoshinoo
Correspondences, 2020 This essay addresses some of the references to Christianity presented in G.I. Gurdjieff’s magnum opus, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. Keeping in view the overarching themes of the conscious labor and intentional suffering (being-Partkdolg-duty) and ...
Michael Pittman
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The transformation of classical Tantra in the modern Neotantric movement (on the example of Russia) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2023 The article reflects on the transformations that classical Tantra has undergone in the West and in Russia in the 20th – 21st centuries. The basis for the image of Tantra in the Western imagination was the model of «non-dual» Shaiva-Shakta Tantrism.
Sergey Pakhomov
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Buddah Still Works— the Work on Oneself Never Ends: Essay on Grotowski
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2023 This essay uses the personal recollections of Italian director Gioacchino Palumbo, including the experience of viewing of Apocalypsis cum figuris as well as some personal encounters with Jerzy Grotowski, to present a subjective account of selected ...
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Sens public, 2016 Gurdjieff, le fondateur de l’Institut pour le Développement Harmonique de l’Homme (1923), aujourd’hui remplacé par l’Institut Gurdjieff de Paris, arrêta toutes ses activités pour se consacrer pendant dix ans à une seule tâche : écrire. Cet article analyse son parcours et sa condition d’écrivain.
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Approaching Religion, 2018 Review of Tobias Churton's Deconstructioning Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician (Rochester, Inner Traditions, 2017).
Hippo Taatila
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 This article focuses on the general history of the Fourth Way in Finland. The Fourth Way, or simply ‘the Work’, began as a Greco-Armenian man named Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866?–1949) gathered groups of pupils in St Petersburg and Moscow in 1912. To
Vesa Iitti
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Of Syntheses and Surprises:Toward a Critical Integral Theory [PDF]
Integral Review, 2006 The central concern of this article is how the search for formal structures with universal values functions ideologically, addressing Zizek’s claim that East-West syntheses may represent the dominant ideology par excellance of global capitalism.
Daniel Gustav Anderson
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Mary Poppins and the Soviet pilgrimage: P.L. Travers's Moscow excursion (1934) [PDF]
, 2012 Like the journey it chronicles, Moscow Excursion, P.L.Travers’s account of her 1932 visit to Russia, was in part inspired by the genre it effectively parodies: the ‘Soviet pilgrimage’ ‘truth about Russia’ narrative characteristic of the Stalin decades ...
McNair, John
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, 2020 Attention is the key to all learning. Indeed, it is what will save our lives on a daily basis. In all my Communication courses, it is one of the first things I put forward as a question that students may ask of themselves as a check on their “internal ...
Levenson-Andrews, Robin B.
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