Religio Perennis

Religio Psycho-Medici

Neither does it fall within the compass of my design to record mv personal experience, to sketch the likeness of a typical reverential alienist, or to imply that all, or many, or any individual among my fellow-labourers have been led by intellect or sentiment to the impressions or conclusions described. Guided by humbler aspirations, my purpose is to describe the varied circumstances in the dai...

Religio Psycho-Medici. Part II

sane and in the insane; dark and doubtful sayings are avoided ? sin, and shame,; and sorrow, and weakness, and waywardness are confessed; there is a cry for help and forgiveness ; and we have often listened with awe and reverence to the last words of the dying lunatic as they assumed the form, the infantile but expressive phrase which had been taught while the child knelt by a mother's knee. A ...

Concept of Death; Religio-Philosophical Perspective

Psychologia Perennis: the Spectrum of Consciousness

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...

Electrode Potentials of Hermidin, the Chromogen of Mercurialis perennis.

HAAS and HILL [1925, 1] have recently directed attention to a chromogen of considerable interest which escapes from the plasmolysed cells of Mercurialis perennis. If the coarsely divided tissue be steeped, anaerobically, in chloroform water for a short time, there results an extract which, on exposure to oxygen, assumes first a rich blue and then a yellow-brown colour. These investigators [1925...