Since at least 1500 B.C. men have, from time to time, held the view that our normal vision of the world is a hallucination—a dream, a figment of the mind, or, to use the Hindu word which means both art and illusion, a maya. The implication is that, if this is so, life need never be taken seriously. It is a fantasy, a play, a drama to be enjoyed. It does not really matter, for one day (perhaps i...

physical state, arrangement and access to the records. Some of the historical sketches are tantalizingly incomplete, since so little is known ofthe firms. Descriptions vary from single items to quantities of material-often completely unsorted. Archives of many firms are scattered in several locations: those of British Xylorite Co. Ltd. (for example) are at Hackney Archives Dept., Suffolk Record...

In A History of God, Karen Armstrong describes a division, made by fourth century Christians, between kerygma and dogma: 'religious truth … capable of being expressed and defined clearly and logically,' versus 'religious insights [that] had an inner resonance that could only be apprehended by each individual in his own time during … contemplation' (Armstrong, 1993, p.114). This early dual-proce...

The structural abstract discusses the features of modern post-non-classical scientific discourse, according to which all kinds and religious knowledge are simplified mental construction a complex objective reality. All accumulated is combination various theoretical models divine reality, performance was checked by centuries experience mystical connection with Lord. According requirements discou...

FengShui, an old Chinese discipline, dates back to more than 5000 years, is one of the design principles that aim at creating habitable and sustainable spaces in harmony with nature by systematizing data within its own structure. Having emerged from Chinese mysticism and embodying elements of faith in its principles, FengShui argues that the positive energy in the environment channels human beh...

Since 1999, progress has been made, to varying degrees, in numerous areas of medical history research in China including history of TCM, history of western medicine, history of integrated Chinese and western medicine, history of traditional medicine of Chinese minorities, history of medicine of foreign countries, history of medical exchanges between China and other countries, and history of com...

Rsume Although there are ethnic groups and non-European cultures which neither understand illness in a western sense nor use healing-rites in a functional way similar to western therapeutic treatments, it makes sense to investigate whether those practices could be helpful in current psychotherapy. Thus, concerning the basic aspects of music, three aspects are discussed: the anthropological exis...

mingei japanese folk craft movement involved in making (folk - handi) crafts by unknown craftman. although these crafts are prepared for ordinary people in large quantities and cheap prices, possess the purest beauty and privileged specifically. the japanese movement had its ideological antecedent’s in the larger arts and craft movement at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, so it was g...

Human-centered chance discovery involves ad-hoc teams of experts who inspect the output of a chance discovery algorithm and develop scenarios for decision making. The team members typically are from different areas, such as product design or marketing, and have relationships to their own teams in these areas. Therefore the inter-team relationships affect the performance of the chance discovery ...