le clezio 's fictional world takes us back to the beauties of nature and makes us contemplate the mysteries of the universe. by creating exaggerated and sometimes surreal sceneries, le clezio seeks to escape from inconveniences of the materialistic world to explore man's identity. obscure conditions, wearriness with the achievements of modern world, le clezio's personages, are en...

in the exposition of man's reality and the interpretation of mutual relation of soul and body, today's human beings are no less astonishment than those in the age of plato. in the present age, although there has been provided the background of scientific research, the materialistic tendencies are found more than before. the main reasons of such a thing are the inadequacy of philosophi...

We developed new materials to induce a luxury mindset and activate materialistic values, and examined materialism's relationship to attitudes toward marriage and having children in Singapore. Path analyses indicated that materialistic values led to more negative attitudes toward marriage, which led to more negative attitudes toward children, which in turn led to a decreased number of children d...

parapsychology, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, have considered, by physicists and philosophers,by institutes which formed ,and in the twentieth century, especially during the post-modern age, as means of critic and break the materialistic and physicalistic view of modernity, is more important. review this subject ,in the islamic culture,breasting our with  researches  of avesina th...

Hitler had a noble purpose (to save the world) and a strong faith in the laws of Nature as he understood Nature. He was, then, a spiritual person, though his spirituality was pathological and destructive. Here, the example of Hitler, his faith, and his spiritual pathology is given to both understand spiritual pathology in general and, through contrast, to understand positive spiritual development.

Optical scattering has traditionally limited the ability to focus light inside scattering media such as biological tissue. Recently developed wavefront shaping techniques promise to overcome this limit by tailoring an optical wavefront to constructively interfere at a target location deep inside scattering media. To find such a wavefront solution, a "guide-star" mechanism is required to identif...

OBJECTIVE While there has been a large increase in scientific studies on spirituality, there has been too few of studies of the core of spirituality: spiritual experiences (SE), which often involve altered states of consciousness, reports of anomalous experiences and of consciousness beyond the body. This paper argues that SE, although usually neglected in debates regarding mind-brain relations...