Art and Neuroscience
John Hyman

Quote: If these claims are true, we are at the dawn of a new age in the study of art. Up to now, most of the people studying art have been historians, some of whom can read Latin, but hardly any of whom have mastered even the rudiments of brain science. And aesthetics has been in the hands of philosophers, who still disagree among themselves about ideas that were stated in the fourth century BC. Neuro-aesthetics is different. As Ramachandran says:

"These ideas have the advantage that, unlike the vague notions of philosophers and art historians, they can be tested experimentally." End of quote.

http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcognition/papers/15

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Empirically.... a set of all sets of all sets of a set


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Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, http://www.atpweb.org.ezproxy.humanisticpsychology.org:2048/index.asp
From JTP website:
The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology: An Orientation
As a major orientation in psychology, a transpersonal perspective connects contemporary educational, scientific, and clinical methods with personal, social, and spiritual understanding. It is concerned with full human awareness, the integration of psychological and spiritual experience, and the transcendence of self.

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I'll post an autobiographical piece relevant to the content of this site--as my first post and see how it goes.-Ron Price, Australia
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Autobiography, unlike novels, does not keep its readers at a distance from the facts of its author’s life. The sufferings and tribulations, the successes and wins of the autobiographer’s life are much more immediately part of the reader’s awareness than they are from a novel by the same person. The relationship between a memoir/autobiography and the reader is less mediated and more like a patient/doctor relationship. The writer is on the couch talking: the reader becomes the doctor, reading hopefully with passion and interest, listening as good doctors must, and at the same time putting the story through the mill, as any good doctor would, of his own consciousness, memory and experience. I have often wondered while I have been writing this book whether it will get any readers/doctors at all. The worst that can happen to a narrative, it is often said and as Herzen pointed out in his preface, is that it remains ‘responseless’.

I have taken a course that another skeptic, David Hume, the Scottish philosopher, took at a much younger age than I. Hume writes in his autobiography that at the age of 23 he “laid that plan of life” which he “steadily and successfully pursued.” He goes on to say that he aimed “to maintain unimpaired” his independency and “to regard every object as contemptible,” except the improvements of his talents in literature.” His first literary efforts, he informs us, fell dead from the press. But, as he says, due to his naturally cheerful and sanguine temper, he very soon recovered from the blows of intellectual and social indifference which his work received. In spite of receiving no recognition he continued to prosecute “with great ardour” his studies. --testing, testing,1,2,3--

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I like what Sandra Ingerman wrote in "Shamanic Journeying: A Beginners Guide" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591791510?tag=shamanicteach-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1591791510&adid=0N2Q7QE6609KPHP51G4T&)
Good and Evil in Aramaic was translated into Greek and then into English. When translated directly, the words are more appropriately translated as ripe and unripe. Some truth or spirit is ready for me to receive while others are not. Tom Cowan also prefers to translate it as holy or un-holy = healthy or un-healthy.

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From Alan Watts' "The Book"

Myth, then, is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: "Where did the world come from?" "Why did God make the world?" "Where was I before I was born?" "Where do people go when they die?" Again and again I have found that they seem to be satisfied with a simple and very ancient story, which goes something like this:

"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour-hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night, waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can't have any one of these without the other, because you wouldn't be able to know what black is unless you had seen it side-by-side with white, or white unless side-by-side with black.

"In the same way, there are times when the world is, and times when the world isn't, for if the world went on and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes. Now you see it; now you don't. So because it doesn't get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It's like your breath: it goes in and out, in and out, and if you try to hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It's also like the game of hide-and-seek, because it's always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn't always hide in the same place.

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