The purpose of this study is to investigate the philosophy, art, methods, and outcomes of the Transcendentalist movement in 19th century America, with the aim of identifying strategies for creative practice that may inspire artists and educators in the 21st century. In the intro…
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The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…
The present work is centered in the paper that the trance states could have in the Ancient World. We begin the study in the old Mesopotamia and Egypt, passing then to Greece, Carthage, Rome and we conclude in the Canary Islands, populated by groups of North African Berbers in th…
This dissertation examines the animals (all species are identified here under the term “animal”) in selected Shelley poetry and prose published up to 1821. This eco-critical and historical focus is not on single animals, but on texts in which there is a community of animals in r…
This dissertation examines the development of narrative form in 19 th century Yiddish and 20th century West African literature. Engaging with the theory of “minor” literature articulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this study adds to their framework for identifying “mi…
Camus' philosophical and literary works share an intrinsically common ground relative to consciousness and revolt. However, with little exception, past and present scholarship has tended to corral its investigation of these two key issues at the expense of one genre or the other…
Dual sensory impairment or 'deafblindness' imposes a special quality of engagement between the self and the social world. Yet novels, which specialise in the exploration of human subjectivity, have failed spectacularly to capture this. This thesis analyses the gap in representat…
Until recently, research into dreaming followed the reductionist paradigm within a Freudian framework. This line of enquiry has failed to date to provide a meaningful relationship between neuropsychology and dreaming. As a result, theory development has halted, original therapeu…
This dissertation explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has p…
This dissertation argues the medicalization of menopause in Turkey became possible due to the coexistence of changes that accompany the globalization of neoliberalism, such as the diffusion of the idea of the patient-as-consumer; and remnants of core ideals of modernity, such as…
In this thesis different data were analyzed, including behavioural performance (speed and accuracy), fMRI brain activation, and modelling simulation, to investigate the underlying processes in perceptual and symbolic, masked and unmasked magnitude priming. The perceptual stimuli…
Today, there is a rapidly growing sense of impending crisis with dire consequences for all humanity. The way humanity currently lives on earth is no longer sustainable. The incidence and course of human misery and suffering and the likelihood of extinction are increasing signifi…
With the growing development of yoga psychology, there is an increasing need for whole-person yoga psychology frameworks that showcase a comprehensive representation of human consciousness and personality, as well as the process of psychospiritual growth and development. While m…
In the field of psychology there are specific guidelines utilized to identify the best research-supported treatment for a disorder; a recommended treatment that fits a one-size-fits-all model. The emphasis on scientifically supported treatments creates a false dichotomy between …
Since the Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century, a proliferation of knowledge has been won at the expense of trust in the existential underpinnings of that very knowledge. This dissertation attempts to show how the ascendancy of a particular method of inquiry since th…
Human learning relies on interrelated implicit and explicit systems. Extensive evidence indicates that implicitly learned information can become consciously-accessible (i.e., explicit). According to a number of theoretical accounts of human learning, this occurs by way of intuit…
This hermeneutic phenomenological study examines the experience of using Embodied Imagination when confronting a life-threatening illness. Embodied Imagination (EI) is a type of guided dreamwork concerned with the direct effect of imagination on the mind, body, and spirit and in…
This dissertation examined experiences of clinical hypnotherapists who facilitate transpersonal or expanded states of consciousness, which have been described by Wilber (2017), Cortright (1997), Grof (2000), and Washburn (2003). Although such states have been a part of community…
This paper discusses the author's creative practice as it relates to the evolutionary origins of the unique aspects of human consciousness and their implication throughout time. A methodological approach that models cognitive systems that have developed based on these implicatio…