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On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:43 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > Adrie said to Marsha: > > Hmm, yes , i was aware of it, please keep in mind the "Timewindow" William > was living in, in that time , he was far ahead of everyone, in this frame, > during that time, it was all state of the art. ...James planted the seeds , > some live on , some not. The survivors are still cutting edge of insights. > > dmb says: > As I understand it, a lot of what James said over a hundred years ago is just > now being vindicated. His notions about the stream of consciousness were > directly translated from Buddhist terms AND the most advanced of today's > brain scanners are proving him right. Here's a little Wikipedia on the > topic... > > Buddhism and psychology > During the 1970s, several experimental studies suggested that Buddhist > meditation could produce insights into a wide range of psychological states. > Interest in the use of meditation as a means of providing insight into > mind-states has recently been revived, following the increased availability > of such brain-scanning technologies as fMRI and SPECT. > Such studies are enthusiastically encouraged by the present Dalai Lama, > Tenzin Gyatso, who has long expressed an interest in exploring the connection > between Buddhism and science and regularly attends the Mind and Life > Institute Conferences. ... > William James often drew on Buddhist cosmology when framing perceptual > concepts, such as his term "stream of consciousness," which is the literal > English translation of the Pali vinnana-sota. The "stream of consciousness" > is given various names throughout the many languages of Buddhadharma > discourse but in English is generally known as "Mindstream". In Varieties of > Religious Experience James also promoted the functional value of meditation > for modern psychology. He wrote: "This is the psychology everybody will be > studying twenty-five years from now." > Marsha asks dmb: Where is the url that is home of these quotes? I cannot find them in the Wikipedia topic 'Buddhism and psychology'. Here's where I looked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_psychology Please in the future include the url/address. Marsha ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
