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In charge of policies (20) Blurring research and policy. Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software. Erowid. Transpersonal psychology. Issues considered in transpersonal psychology include spiritual self-development, self beyond the ego, peak experiences, mystical experiences, systemic trance, spiritual crises, spiritual evolution, religious conversion, altered states of consciousness, spiritual practices, and other sublime and/or unusually expanded experiences of living.
The discipline attempts to describe and integrate spiritual experience within modern psychological theory and to formulate new theory to encompass such experience. Transpersonal psychology has made several contributions to the academic field, and the studies of human development, consciousness and spirituality.[3][4] Transpersonal psychology has also made contributions to the fields of psychotherapy[5] and psychiatry.[6][7] Definition[edit] Lajoie and Shapiro[8] reviewed forty definitions of transpersonal psychology that had appeared in academic literature over the period from 1968 to 1991.
Development of the academic field[edit] Origins[edit] Dr. Stanislav Grof. Biography[edit] As founding president of the International Transpersonal Association (founded in 1977), he went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remains in today. Grof was featured in the film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within, a 2006 documentary about rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.[3] He was also featured in five other documentaries.[4] Teachings[edit] Grof distinguishes between two modes of consciousness: the hylotropic and the holotropic.[5] The hylotropic[6] refers to "the normal, everyday experience of consensus reality.
All the cultures in human history except the Western industrial civilization have held holotropic states of consciousness in great esteem. Grof connects modern man's inability to fully and honestly grapple with his psychic conflicts to the contemporary ecological crisis: Bibliography[edit] Notes[edit] War On Drugs & Consciousness.
Smart drugs / nootropics ? Psychedelic Science 2013. Terence McKenna Land. Media/McKenna streaming audio and video Rupert Sheldrake hosts many excellent realaudio streams including Trialogues at the Edge of the MilleniumPart I and Part II led by Terence (1.5 hours each) The Trip Receptacles : MP3 clips from all-psychedelic, all-entheogen radio, transmitted via KPFA in Berkeley with Stanislav Grof, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Albert Hoffman, Rick Strassman, Fritjof Capra, Andrew Weil, D.M. Turner and many others. Several rare video clips at Global Webtrance. Let Talk With Terence!
Spoken Word Transcriptions Transcription of Zuvuya's Dream Matrix TelemetryTwo chapters from the audio version of True Hallucinations not included in the printed book! Oversoul as Saucer and Open Ending.Words from the Alien Dreamtime CD:Archaic Revival, Alien Love, Speaking in Tongues and Timewave Zero. Hyperspace, the Gaian supermind, global rave telepathy, and more inRe-Evolution. The monstrously vast Camden Centre Talk. The Psychedelic Sixties. Opensource. Framework.
Explore more. Web pages, photos, and videos | StumbleUpon.com. Stumbled Upon. Why startup needs API. Twitter’s 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs. Twitter: 75% of Our Traffic is via API (3 billion calls. There were plenty of stats doled out by Twitter’s founders during Chirp Conference keynotes today. The two that stuck with us were: 1) that its servers handle 3 billion calls every day, just to the API, and 2) that 75% of all their traffic comes from their API.
If you look at the volume alone, that’s over 30,000 updates, timeline requests and searches per second. That’s a massive API. That other number, that 75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party applications, demonstrates just how much of their growth and popularity rides on the efforts of outside developers. It reinforces just how important the platform is to Twitter. As Twitter mashups grew, so did the use of Twitter.
Eurodoc. Interdisciplinary teams, concept model. Actor-Network Theory. John Law. John Law is a sociologist currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and key proponent of Actor-network theory. Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ANT, is a social science approach for describing and explaining social, organisational, scientific and technological structures, processes and events. It assumes that all the components of such structures (whether these are human or otherwise) form a network of relations that can be mapped and described in the same terms or vocabulary. Developed by two leading French STS scholars, Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, Law himself, and others, ANT may alternatively be described as a 'material-semiotic' method.
ANT strives to maps relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and 'semiotic' (between concepts), for instance, the interactions in a bank involve both people and their ideas, and computers. John Law at The Open University. Pierre Bourdieu. JohnLaw. Bruno Latour. Bruno Latour. Bruno Latour (/ləˈtʊər/; French: [latuʁ]; born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.[3] He is especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS).[4] After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became Professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab.
He retired from several university activities in 2017.[5] He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.[6][7] Latour's monographs earned him a 10th place among most-cited book authors in the humanities and social sciences for the year 2007.[10] Biography[edit] As a student, Latour originally focused on philosophy and was deeply influenced by Michel Serres. Awards and honors[edit] Holberg Prize[edit] A 2013 article in Aftenposten by Jon Elster criticised the conferment to Latour, by saying "The question is, does he deserve the prize. Actor-Network Theory in Plain English. Approach from Actor-Network Theory. This theory offers the explanation that a system consists of actors, objects, and the relationships between the two. Most importantly, Actor-Network Theory (ANT) claims that all of these three components are of equal importance. This means that the user is no more important to the system than the object she is interacting with.
This theory has some famous proponents including John Law, Bruno Latour and Yrgo Engestrom. An Actor-Network Theory approach to group web Tackling our situation from the ANT perspective is quite simple. Pearltree for Actor-Network Theory To learn more about Actor-Network Theory, check out the Pearltree! Theories related Actor-Network Theory Theories related to actor-network theory are activity theory and distributed cognition. Like this: Like Loading... About Actor-Network Theory. Broadly speaking, ANT is a constructivist approach in that it avoids essentialist explanations of events or innovations (e.g. explaining a successful theory by understanding the combinations and interactions of elements that make it successful, rather than saying it is “true” and the others are “false”). However, it is distinguished from many other STS and sociological network theories for its distinct material-semiotic approach.
Background and context[edit] ANT appears to reflect many of the preoccupations of French post-structuralism, and in particular a concern with non-foundational and multiple material-semiotic relations. At the same time, it was much more firmly embedded in English-language academic traditions than most post-structuralist-influenced approaches. Its grounding in (predominantly English) science and technology studies was reflected in an intense commitment to the development of theory through qualitative empirical case-studies.
A material-semiotic method[edit]