Buddhism is often presented as a non-violent religion that highlights the virtue of universal compassion. However, it does not unequivocally reject the use of violence, and leaves open the possibility that violence may be committed under special circumstances by spiritually realized beings. This paper examines several apologetic defenses for the presence of violent imagery and rituals in tantri...

It is well known that the Nazis treated human beings with extreme cruelty but it less widely recognized that the Nazis also took some pains to develop and pass extensive animal protection laws. How could the Nazis have professed stich concern for animals while treating humans so badly? It would be easy to dismiss Nazi proclamations on animals as mere hypocrisy but there may be other explanation...

This paper explores and offers a quantum mechanical model for the emergence of selfawareness from holographically-generated dream images. Self-awareness arises from the ability of a simple memory device, an automaton in the brain, to obtain images of holographically-stored glial cell memories and, most importantly, through a quantum mechanical process, to also obtain images of itself. Each self...

Aphasia is a systemic disturbance of speech, revealing in the complete loss or partial loss of speech and local lesion caused by one or more of the speech areas in the brain. In most cases, aphasia occurs in adults, however, it is also possible in children, if the brain injury occurred after it had been formed, at least partially. The term ‘aphasia’ is derived from the Greek ‘fasio’ (say) and t...

This paper addresses the issue of integrating spirituality with substance abuse treatment by presenting the workings of the ‘‘Spirituality Group,’’ a therapy group for substance abusing veterans at a Midwestern Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Common themes from the group, case examples, and a discussion of working with group resistances are presented. The last 100 years have witnessed a variet...

This article describes a holistic and transpersonal approach to higher education and presents the graduate psychology programs and practices of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) as an illustrative example of this approach, given its 30þ year history. The article describes ITP’s transpersonal and whole-person focus, its experiential learning emphases, its foundational principles an...

Participatory design is often promoted as an inclusive, open-ended, and fluid methodology for giving voice to marginalised underrepresented user groups. In contrast, participatory can also be used a tool political regeneration therefore sometimes criticised ineffectual tokenistic. Levels of stakeholder participation are not explicitly quantifiable, the degree which groups may involved in decisi...