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There is an emergent movement of scientists and scholars working on somatic awareness, interoception and embodiment. This work cuts across studies of neurophysiology, somatic anthropology, contemplative practice, and mind-body medicine. Key questions include: How is body awareness cultivated? What role does interoception play for emotion and cognition in healthy adults and children as well as in different psychopathologies? What are the neurophysiological effects of this cultivation in practices such as Yoga, mindfulness meditation, Tai Chi and other embodied contemplative practices? What categories from other traditions might be useful as we explore embodiment? Does the cultivation of body awareness within contemplative practice offer a tool for coping with suffering from conditions, such as pain, addiction, and dysregulated emotion? This emergent field of research into somatic awareness and associated interoceptive processes, however, faces many obstacles. The principle obstacle lies in our 400-year Cartesian tradition that views sensory perception as epiphenomenal to cognition. The segregation of perception and cognition has enabled a broad program of cognitive science research, but may have also prevented researchers from developing paradigms for understanding how interoceptive awareness of sensations from inside the body influences cognition. The cognitive representation of interoceptive signals may play an active role in facilitating therapeutic transformation, e.g. by altering context in which cognitive appraisals of well-being occur. This topic has ramifications into disparate research fields: What is the role of interoceptive awareness in conscious presence? How do we distinguish between adaptive and maladaptive somatic awareness? How do we best measure somatic awareness? What are the consequences of dysregulated somatic/interoceptive awareness on cognition, emotion, and behavior? The complexity of these questions calls for the creative integration of perspectives and findings from related but often disparate research areas including clinical research, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, anthropology, religious/contemplative studies and philosophy.

contemplative practice --- interoception --- somatic awareness --- Meditation --- Awareness --- mindfulness --- Body awareness

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In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late-capitalism. Although not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Kelly Reichardt have been largely subsumed under the term ‘slow cinema’. But what exactly is slow cinema? Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level?Deploying the concept of slowness as an umbrella category under which filmmakers and traditions from different historical and geographical backgrounds can fruitfully converge, this innovative collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have generally informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-grained studies that will provide valuable insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe.

Slow cinema. --- Motion pictures --- Aesthetics. --- Film --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production. --- Cinema of contemplation --- Cinema of slowness --- Contemplative cinema --- Slow films --- Motion pictures.

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Old French literature --- Christian spirituality --- Mysticism --- Spiritual life --- Mysticisme --- Vie spitiruelle --- Early works to 1800 --- Catholic Church --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Eglise catholique --- Contemplation --- Christianity --- #GROL:SEMI-277<08> Medi 69 --- 230.005 --- Religion Christian theology Serial publications --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Prayer --- Contemplation - Early works to 1800 --- Spiritual life - Christianity - Early works to 1800

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The present volume is focused on the interactions and syncretistic tensions between religion and philosophy in Late Antiquity. A variety of papers examine issues of personal religious attitudes, initiation to the mysteries, Orphism, notions of theurgy, magic, the philosopher's quest for intimacy or union with the divine, magic and Christianity, the role of prayer in philosophical texts, and oracles, dream-visions and divination. The contributions include a wide range of specialisations, such as Neoplatonism, Chaldaean Oracles, Theurgy, Patristic literature, Christian religious texts and Manichaeism.

Philosophy and religion --- Contemplation --- Prayer --- Syncretism (Religion) --- 248.143.2 --- 242 --- 242 Meditatie. Contemplatie --- 242 Meditations. Contemplations --- Meditatie. Contemplatie --- Meditations. Contemplations --- 248.143.2 Innerlijk gebed --- Innerlijk gebed --- Eclecticism (Religion) --- Religious syncretism --- Unionism (Religion) --- Religion --- Religions --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Worship --- Prayers --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- History --- Christianity --- Conferences - Meetings --- Philosophy, Ancient.

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Studies of the notion of theoria and of the contemplative life have often been restricted to Plato and Aristotle. This volume shows that aspirations to contemplation and the life of the intellect survived long after the classical period, turning into topics of heated debates, powerful arguments and original applications throughout the Hellenistic, imperial, and late antique periods. The introduction attempts to reconstruct all the problems pertaining to the contemplative life in Antiquity, and the twelve papers, written by distinguished scholars, offer a thorough study of the appropriation, criticism and transformation of Plato’s and Aristotle’s positions on the contemplative life, including its epistemological and metaphysical foundation. The volume ranges from Theophrastus to the end of Antiquity, including Jewish and Christian authors, with a focus on Platonism from Cicero to Damascius.

Contemplation --- Platonists --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platoniciens --- Philosophie ancienne --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Plato --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical --- Platonism --- Philosophers --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Prayer --- Platon --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Платон --- プラトン --- Contemplation - Congresses --- Platonists - Congresses --- Philosophy, Ancient - Congresses --- Plato - Congresses