"When the Mind Remembers All": Dream and Memory in Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence"

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
John Rohrkemper
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
The Mind

North American Yoga Practitioners’ Lived Experiences of Mind-Body Connection: A Phenomenological Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Mind Body Connection ◽  
Yoga Practitioners

Abstract The practice of yoga was born in India thousands of years ago and brought to North America gradually beginning in the 20th century. The traditional practice of yoga is spiritual in nature with an intention of purifying the mind and body, leading to an alleviation of suffering through connection with the Divine (i.e., liberation). Yoga has gained widespread popularity in North America, but whether North American yoga practice includes an intention on the purification of the mind-body, in contemporary practice often described as a mind-body connection, has yet to be explored. This research study investigated North American yoga practitioners’ experiences of mind-body connection in their practices. Six yoga practitioners residing in North America were interviewed for this study. Interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed. Phenomenological analysis was conducted to produce the essence data, and thematic analysis was conducted to produce the contextual data. Phenomenological themes regarding the co-researchers’ experiences of mind-body connection in their yoga practices were identified and grouped into four textural essences: (1) the experience of breath, (2) local or internal experiences, (3) an increased sense of awareness and mindfulness, and (4) transcendental and spiritual qualities. Four structural conditions that allow practitioners to experience mind-body connection during yoga practice were identified: (1) breath, (2) physical asana, (3) practitioner intentionality, and (4) environmental conditions. Findings of the current study suggest a capacity for North American yoga practitioners to experience mind-body connection that is essential to traditional yoga practice.

“God made me a Lithuanian”: Nationalist Ideology and the Constructions of a North American Diaspora

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Marian J. Rubchak
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Single Identity ◽  
The Mind

The above epigram insists on the existence of two halves of a single identity—a timeless, unalterable Lithuanian self and its complementary American half; it appeared in an editorial written in 1951 by a Lithuanian born in America. When a reader criticized this self-definition as “un-American,” the author of the editorial replied: “You found it difficult to understand how I, who was born and raised in this glorious land of ours, can call myself a Lithuanian. There are many reasons.... First and foremost is the simple reason that God made me a Lithuanian.” Almost 40 years later, Antanas J. Van Reenan refers to Lithuanian “universal first principles,” the concept according to which Lithuania, like every other nation, is culturally distinctive and in harmony with the proposition that “God created nations as part of his divine plan” (12). This idea, inspired by German national ideologists like Herder, is the essence of an ideology of Lithuanianness that was fully consolidated in Lithuania during the first decade of the twentieth century and provided the conceptual underpinnings for what was to become by the middle of the century—as Van Reenan puts it—a Lithuanian “diaspora mentality” (xv). The term refers to the mind-frame of a people with a powerful sense of the Lithuanianness of their own and future generations, who set out to resist assimilation into mainstream America.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

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