This essay explores the practical significance of Michel Henry's "material phenomenology." Commencing with an exposition of his most basic philosophical intuition, i.e., his insight that transcendental affectivity is the primordial mode of revelation of our selfhood, the essay then brings to light how this intuition also establishes our relation to both the world and others. Animated by a radic...

the article, at first, deals with eliade’s phenomenology that is in contrast with reductionist methods. then, it explains the key concept in eliade work, namly, sacred. in relation to this, author concentrates on concepts of time and place in archaic religion. he says that archaic people with their belief in sacred place imitate works of gods and regulate the world. then, it deals with ontology...

Psychedelic use is generally considered safe, and their effects are being equated with those of meditation practices. To assess these conclusions, this paper compares psychedelic experiences in terms 1) EEG patterns, 2) brain blood-flow 3) content experience, 4) mechanism action, 5) therapeutic application. On five factors, transcendental during practice completely different: gamma vs alpha EEG...

We give a relation between the existence of a Zariski decomposition and the behavior of the restricted volume of a big divisor on a smooth (complex) projective variety. Moreover, we give an analytic description of the restricted volume in the line of Boucksom’s work. It enables us to define the restricted volume of a transcendental class on a compact Kähler manifold in natural way. The relation...

and reasoning, is capable of suggesting, if not establishing, far-reaching laws of cerebral activity, inasmuch as the brain energies revealed by consciousness, and sometimes attested by objective manifestations, occur while the organ is out of relation with any impressions derived from the outer world, and is left, so to write, to its spontaneous and uncontrolled motions. Dreaming has been attr...