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On Race in America
No full textAuthor and hip hop journalist Jeff Chang in conversation with novelist and poet Adam Mansbach on the cultural history - and future - of race in America.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1026/thumbnail.jp
A Journey into the Heart of Being Human
No full textClinical psychologist and interpersonal neurobiology expert Dr Dan Siegel is joined in conversation by Rick Hanson to take a deep dive into the mysteries of the human mind.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1009/thumbnail.jp
Towards a Higher Health
No full textAlternative medicine pioneer Deepak Chopra explores the question of how consciousness conceives and constructs the physical universe.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/publicprograms/1007/thumbnail.jp
Ongoing Dialogue in Response to Editor’s Introduction, “Nonduality: Not One, Not Two, but Many”
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Prayer Songs: Therapy That Aided a People\u27s Survival
Get PDFThis paper proposes a parallelism between existential psychotherapy and the psychospiritual healing function Negro Spirituals had for enslaved people in the United States. The songs’ beauty and profundity are asserted as having high value in their therapeutic function. The courage and wisdom enslaved people employed to resist psychic domination are discussed in conjunction with examples of their ways of maintaining hope, which is viewed as a prerequisite for their restorative use of the Spirituals. The attributes of sound and music are discussed with descriptions of how they have been used to substantiate the power of the Spirituals as distinct expressions of sound healing. The songs’ comparability to existentialist psychotherapy is demonstrated with an analysis of their therapeutic content
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the November-December 2015 Issue of Integrative Health Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1000/thumbnail.jp
CIIS Alumni Association Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2015 Issue of the CIIS Alumni Newsletterhttps://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/alumninewsletter/1000/thumbnail.jp
East-West Psychology Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2015 edition of EWP News.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/eastwestpsychologynewsletter/1002/thumbnail.jp
Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century: Theoretical Renewals
No full textThis critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore\u27s relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore\u27s literature, music, theatre, aesthetics, politics and art against contemporary theoretical developments in postcolonial literature and social theory. The authors take up themes as varied as the implications of Tagore’s educational vision for contemporary India; new theoretical interpretations of gender, queer elements, feminism and subalternism in Tagore\u27s literary and social expressions; his language use as a vehicle for a dialogue between positivism, Orientalism and other constructs in the ongoing process of globalization; the nature of the influence of Tagore\u27s music and literature on national and cultural identity formation, particularly in Bengal and Bangladesh; and intersubjectivity and critical modernity in Tagore’s art. This volume opens up a space for Tagore’s critique and his creative innovations in present theoretical engagements.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1052/thumbnail.jp
Transpersonal Psychology and an Agnostic Experiential Exploration of Mediumship and the Ostensible Phenomenon of Life after Death
Get PDFThis paper presents results of an autoethnographic personal experiential research study of mediumship and the ostensible phenomenon of life after death. The researcher’s experiences center on his attempt to make contact with his deceased brother, as part of a doctoral research project. The researcher concludes with a skeptical interpretation of the phenomenon of medium-facilitated communications regarding the deceased; he suggests these are likely to involve cold reading, sensory cues, coincidence, and subjective validation rather than constituting genuine evidence of life after death. The researcher’s conclusions leave room for the possibility of a paranormal interpretation, though this is not favored