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**Towards Action and In Pursuit of Scofflaws: Shifting the Framework of Pandemic Public Health Punishment from Theory to Pragmatism**

was a split largely across political lines; “permissive” jurisdictions promoted ideas of individual freedom and condemnation of government-imposed punishment, while “restrictive” jurisdictions ... these ideas have presumed this as a purely political divide. However, if we accept the assertions of either approach at face value, bracketing political concerns, is the difference in approaches found in

Bailing on the Bondsman: An Argument for Abolishing Monetary Bail

from pre-trial release marked a shift in the philosophy of bail.19 Before the introduction of monetary bail as a punishment tactic, the primary purpose of bail was to ensure a defendant’s reappearance ... district attorneys are elected, so keeping a defendant imprisoned for as long as possible is sensible to their political motivations.41 Politics, of course, rarely follows empirical data unless it is

Continuities of Consciousness, Life-Worlds, and Numinous Experience: Cognitive-Phenomenological Foundations for an Empirical Neo-Shamanism

-manipulative domains will allow their partial integrations as our various multiple intelligences (aesthetic, mathematical, mechanical, political, bodily-athletic, as in Gardner, 1983) , it also creates an ... , 1965) . James (1890 , 1892/1961), less interested at that point in a systematic philosophy, described ongoing consciousness as a “streaming,” always ahead of itself in its sense of an aboutness or

Buddhism and Transpersonal Psychology

). Hence among outlooks in psychology and philosophy most consistent with Buddhism is the transpersonal. Since many transpersonalists have borrowed from Buddhism and/or declared themselves Buddhist, it is ... psychology and philosophy, for higher forms of Buddhism require transmission and simply would not work without it; my aim is to achieve a mutual complementation of disciplines where transpersonal theory and

Two Dimensions of a Bodhisattva

and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Religion. His papers have appeared in numerous journals and books, including the Blackwell Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Sophia, Philosophy ... East & West, the Journal for the American Academy of Religion, Asian Philosophy, and the Journal of Contemporary Buddhism. Duckworth is the author of Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma

Cognitive Illusion, Lucid Dreaming, and the Psychology of Metaphor in Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Contemplative Practices

underlying philosophy is that there are ways of living in deep relaxation with whatever experientially manifests, and throughout the trilogy, Longchenpa presents a series of Dzogchen instructions on how to be ... ) At the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy of dreaming is the understanding that one can dream oneself awake or, to put it another way, live in lucid waking (Metzinger, 2009) . The structure of

Nondual States Are Not a Thing: This Inspiring New Age Spiritual Idea is Neither Advaita Vedanta Nor Psychology

was now keen to study a revered tradition as context for these experiences. As I learned from Carol, Advaita Vedanta is a nondual philosophy articulated elegantly by S,a n.kara in the 8th century CE—a ... philosophy designed not to satisfy the curious intellect so much as to evoke a direct realization that after consciousness is separated from each and every iii sense experience or object it might be conscious

Zen and the Art of Doughnut Economics: When Limits are Strangely Liberating

policy shift. It will require a breakthrough in individual and collective mindsets, a breakthrough in the ceiling of our imagination that will create a clearing for the emergence of a new political economy ... meaning itself. As Ray Scranton has usefully observed in his Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization (2015, p. 26), the systems that structure our political desires and

Prosecutorial Misconduct: Conviction by Any Means Necessary

to quasi-judicial immunity for prosecutors to allow for civil liability and possible criminal liability to protect the integrity of the legal profession based on the political ideals of the Rule of Law ... meaningful regulation encompasses federal and state courts. The courts are left open to political favoritism, personal self-interests, and Jackson v. City of Cleveland, 925 F.3d 793, 823 (6th Cir. 2019). Id

Mindfulness Traps and the Entanglement of Self: An Inquiry into the Regime of Mind

, “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language” (p. 109). Here lies a key. Once we have developed a strong and stable base of samatha (a deep and stable sense of calm ... . with distinction in the history and philosophy of science from London University, and a B.A. Hons. from Oxford. He was director of the Bioelectronic Research Unit at St Bartholomew's hospital in London

Psychology or Religion? Bridge-Building in the Translation History of The Tibetan Book of the Dead

these texts as being “full of myths, blinds and errors,” while hers preserved even more ancient tradition (Cited in Lopez, 1998, p. 51) . Nevertheless, even while repurposing Asian philosophy, she ... . ( 1997 ). H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR: An examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885 . Theosophical University Press. Jinpa , T. ( 2002 ). Self, reality and reason in Tibetan philosophy: Tsongkhapa's quest

Authentic Mindfulness Within Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Qualitative Study of Participants

Buddhist practice to conform to the needs of highly individualistic Neoliberal capitalism is inherently extremely problematic. The fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy simply cannot be squared with a ... suffering. Analayo (2020 ), for example, has argued that Buddhist practice involves refraining from any active part in politics, holding spiritual above political concerns; however, one might argue also

Wild Otherness Within: A Jungian and Zen Approach to the Untamed Self in the Ten Oxherding Pictures

received her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Harvard University, and her PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2021. Her dissertation research explored how nonhuman animals serve as ... Journal of Transpersonal Studies Philosophy , 14 ( 2 ), 178 - 195 . https://doi.org/10.10 80/17570638. 2022 .2124011 Masao , A. ( 1997 ). The self in Jung and Zen . Zen and Comparative Studies , 149 - 160

From Philosophy to Phenomenology: The Argument for a “Soft” Perennialism

the Philosophy Commons , Religion Commons, and the Transpersonal Psychology Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies Recommended Citation

Dead Reckoning: A Multiteam System Approach to Commentaries on the Drake-S Equation for Survival

publications in both astronomy and philosophy journals using empirically-derived terms versus gross speculations (see e.g., Burchell, 2006; Frank & Sullivan, 2016; Platt, 2021) . Lastly, and most importantly ... from the fields of neurology (e.g., Zhao et al., 2019), computer science and artificial intelligence (e.g., Blum & Blum, 2021) , philosophy (e.g., Sudduth, 2016) , quantum processes (e.g., Hameroff

Originalism's Time Machine: A Resurrected Relationship to the State

, political, and religious affairs. Instead, it sought a teleological understanding of the Constitution by interpreting general textualized principles, like liberty. In doing so, the Court constitutionalized

Justice Today, Peace Tomorrow: Reinventing the Crime of Aggression in the Age of Putin

“supreme international crime,” was first prosecuted after World War II.19 Prominent German and Japanese political and military leaders were arrested, tried, and punished for illegally planning and executing ... time, humanity had outlawed – no, criminalized – war.23 Despite that early promise, hopes born from the ashes of a hot war soon gave way to the realpolitik of a cold war.24 Political dysfunction at the

Empowering the EEOC: An Enforcement Strategy to Tackle Workplace Sexual Harassment

NLRB and the SEC,196 poor political compromise left it with a toothless mechanism for achieving Congress’s lofty vision of eradicating employment discrimination.197 As a result, the EEOC has been ... institutions — within one year after the #MeToo hashtag went viral on Twitter.204 A few years later, there is a strong wave of political momentum — as evidenced by the 2022 FAA amendment — for Congress to give

NAVIGATING THE POLITICAL DIVIDE: LESSONS FROM LINCOLN

This edition is comprised of Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law’s symposium “Navigating the Political Divide: Lesson from Lincoln,” held April 20, 2012 in Knoxville, TN. Authors and ... to the presidency two years later. Are we, therefore, simply left with the possibility that a modern candidate stretched a historical reference well beyond its original meaning for political ends

The Varieties of Afterlife Experience: Epistemological and Cultural Implications

on additional sources of inspiration, such as philosophy, arts, personal experiences and anecdotal evidence concerning past-life memories, apparitions, and other phenomena potentially relevant to ... .), Parapsychology, philosophy, and religious concepts: Proceedings of an international conference held in Rome , Italy (pp. 191 - 215 ). Parapsychology Foundation . (Original work published 1977- 1978 in Journal of