If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, cultural psychology a once and future discipline always becomes the mos...

The quality of this book is very variable. Professor Folsom has sought to write a comprehensive summary of the family, a source book covering all its aspects, and has drawn his data from a wide number of fields?psychology, economics, religion, anthropology and sociology. It follows that many of the sections are but brief summaries of the work of others, a compression of the subject matter of bo...

In a recent study Garfield (1975) found that psychedelic drug users, Zen meditators, and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism expressed more accepting attitudes toward death than did graduate students in both psychology and religion; also, that Zen and Tibetan Buddhists were more accepting than the drug users. Garfield suggested that states of altered awareness, achieved through the use of drugs o...

Pastoral psychologists have long tried to establish a working model that encompasses the seemingly conflicting disciplines of science and religion. Psychosynthesis, a transpersonal psychology and therapeutic approach, offers such a model of the human personality, in which the psychological and spiritual perspectives can converge. This article explores psychosynthesis psychology and therapy as a...

The concepts of mind, soul, and consciousness are key to an understanding of ourselves and how we interact with the universe around us. Ian Barbour names the mind/body problem as one of the major subjects of long-term discussion among religion, philosophy, and science, including cognitive psychology. However, his treatment of the traditional philosophical positions on this topic is wanting. Wha...

It is shown that investigations in the field of microwave resonance stimulation of the acupuncture system, as well as investigations of the interactions of consciousness with microscopic and macroscopic environment imply the existence of local and nonlocal macroscopic quantum biophysical effects, with great potential implications in medicine, psychology, biology, physics, engineering, and philo...