scholarly journals The Spiritual Heart

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
Micheline R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Spiritual Wellbeing ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Personal Consciousness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Physical Recovery

The heart has been a symbol within ancient philosophy and spiritual practice for personal consciousness, wisdom, intuition and love. In recent decades, scientists with growing interest in spirituality have built a strong case for the beneficial relationship between religiosity/spirituality and physical health. Explanations for this connection have included associated health behaviors that negatively impact cardiovascular health but have failed to adequately explain away this consistent association. Here, we suggest a central and bidirectional relationship between the heart, the “Master Organ,” and the phenomenology of spiritual experience. Further, we provide existing evidence for a synergistic, salutogenic relationship between robust cardiac function and spiritual wellbeing that may offer a roadmap to spiritual, psychological and physical recovery and health at the individual, interpersonal and global level.

Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare

2011 ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Matthew Warren ◽  
William Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
New World ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Individual

We have seen a rise in computer misuse at a global level and also the development of new policies and strategies to describe organized computer security attacks against the information society–these strategies are described as being “information warfare.” This is very different from the traditional view of attack against computers by the individual, determined hacker, a cyber warrior with a code of conduct to follow. Today the threats come from individuals, corporations, government agencies (domestic and foreign), organized crime and terrorists. This new world of conflict in the electronic ether of virtual cyberspace has brought with it a new set of ethical dilemmas.

Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Matthew Warren ◽  
William Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
New World ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Individual

We have seen a rise in computer misuse at a global level and also the development of new policies and strategies to describe organized computer security attacks against the information society–these strategies are described as being “information warfare.” This is very different from the traditional view of attack against computers by the individual, determined hacker, a cyber warrior with a code of conduct to follow. Today the threats come from individuals, corporations, government agencies (domestic and foreign), organized crime and terrorists. This new world of conflict in the electronic ether of virtual cyberspace has brought with it a new set of ethical dilemmas.

scholarly journals Pharmacology and effects of cannabis: A brief review

2001 ◽  
Vol 178 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Heather Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Young Population ◽  
Cannabis Consumption ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Endogenous Cannabinoid

BackgroundIncreasing prevalence of recreational cannabis use among the young population has stimulated debate on the possible effects of acute and long-term use.AimsTo highlight recent knowledge of mechanisms of action, effects on psychomotor and cognitive performance, and health risks associated with cannabis consumption.MethodA brief review of recent literature on the prevalence of recreational cannabis use, the potency of modern cannabis preparations and the pharmacological actions of cannabis.ResultsCannabinoids derived from herbal cannabis interact with endogenous cannabinoid systems in the body. Actions on specific brain receptors cause dose-related impairments of psychomotor performance with implications for car and train driving, aeroplane piloting and academic performance. Other constituents of cannabis smoke carry respiratory and cardiovascular health risks similar to those of tobacco smoke.ConclusionsCannabis is not, as widely perceived, a harmless drug but poses risks to the individual and to society.

scholarly journals Globalization/Human Safety: A Biopolitical Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kravets
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Human Safety ◽  
Survival And Reproduction ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Biopolitics focuses on the impact of globalization on the well-being of the individual and society as a whole. Accordingly, issues of human security and the threats posed by the process of globalization, as well as the transition from a disciplinary regime to a regime of governance at the global level, which, based on democratic values and liberal norms, are raised. That is why the problem of social justice and equality is solved. The issue of human safety within global governance should be emphasized. It is about a sense of security as a basic human need. Moreover, it is about the global security necessary for the survival and reproduction of humanity as a whole. As well as the study of potential socio-political consequences of the development of biotechnology and genetic engineering in the global dimension. This huge set of issues must be concretized, systematized, and logically structured through the analysis of the impact of globalization on the state of the individual, its relationship with the concept of bios; introduction at the international level of the doctrines of social justice, protection of human and civil rights at the global level; study of potential socio-political consequences of the development of biotechnology in the global dimension; introduction of new biopolitical models of power, governance and international relations; analysis of the theory of global evolution.

scholarly journals Runyoga: Från arisk blodsmystik till nyandlig självutveckling

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Fredrik Gregorius
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ethnic Background ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Alternative Spirituality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Racial Supremacy

Rune yoga is a spiritual practice based on the idea that the Runic alphabet can be used for spiritual and magical purposes. Based on an interpretation of the Runes where every letter in the alphabet is considered to contain within it a source of mystical powers Rune Yoga uses techniques inspired by Indian yoga to channel these forces. While contemporary Rune Yoga has become a part of Heathen and Alternative Spirituality that attracts people from a variety of Ethnic background the origin of the practice lies within the Ariosophical movement, a racial form of Esotericism that developed in Germany and Austria in the early 20th century. In this article the origin of Rune Yoga within the Ariosphical movement is presented, how it was integrated in ideas about Aryan racial supremacy. The article continues to show how Rune Yoga later migrated to North America and became a practice used within a non-racial milieu and what aspects remained from the original Ariosophical movement. The article argues that while some aspects of Ariosophical thinking remains within Rune Yoga the racial aspects have ceased to be important. Rather than focusing on race modern Rune Yoga focus in self-improvement for the individual and there is a lack of collectivist goals.

scholarly journals Tantangan Dalam Implementasi Model Integrasi Industri Perkapalan Di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rizal Firmansyah ◽  
Wihdat Djafar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Collaboration Model ◽  
Implementation Stages ◽  
The Individual

Indonesian shipbuilding Industry plays significant roles in supporting the economics of the country in the utilization of sea resources, the distribution of natural resources as well as interconnecting people between islands. Hence, it is significant for this industry to survive and keep growing and being competitive not only to fulfill the domestic need on ships but also for export to overseas. Support from the Indonesian government with the policy to build all ships which are operated domestically in the Indonesian shipyards is needed. In the global level, the individual shipyard is relatively difficult to compete with the overseas shipyard. This is because the current global competition is not between individual shipyards but between collaboration shipyards. One of the reasons is there is no collaboration model between shipyards which appropriate with the condition of Indonesian shipyards herself can be found in the literature. This paper discusses an integration model for 4 Indonesian BUMN shipyards which is based on the domestic shipyards characteristics and challenges faced in the implementation stages.

The Paradox of Christian Epicureanism in Dialogue

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
Reinier Leushuis
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Renaissance ◽  
Main Tenet ◽  
The Individual

In light of the troubled reputation of Epicureanism in Northern Renaissance humanism, Erasmus’ reception of this major school of ancient philosophy in works such as On Disdaining the World (De contemptu mundi), the Praise of Folly (Moriae encomium), and in particular his very last colloquy The Epicurean (Epicureus) is unique for exploring the potential compatibility of Epicurean ethics with Christian humanism and Erasmian Philosophia Christi. However, as one of the speakers in The Epicurean exclaims, given Epicureanism’s main tenet of pleasure as the greatest good, its association with a pious life free of sin is “a paradox topping all the paradoxes of the Stoics”. This article argues that in The Epicurean Erasmus associates the paradoxical nature of Christian Epicureanism with the Stoic strategy of expressing moral philosophy in perplexing paradoxes in order to exploit the capacity of the dialogue, in particular its ludic potential, to rearticulate the duality of paradox in opposing dialogical voices. Erasmus’ mimetic colloquy allows the individual reader to deconstruct and reprocess paradoxical wisdom at an inner level in order to persuasively integrate a mentality of pleasure (based on the tenets of Epicureanism) at the core of a pious life (based on the tenets of Philosophia Christi).

Abstract P002: Long Term Exposure to Outdoor Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Health

Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 131 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Singh ◽  
Courtney Pilkerton ◽  
Adam Christian ◽  
Thomas K Bias ◽  
Stephanie J Frisbee
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
The Individual

BACKGROUND: Although the link between air pollution and cardiovascular disease has been controversial in recent decades, it remains a top global health concern. Most studies have assessed only the relationship between pollutant concentrations and morbidity or mortality in populous cities. In this study, we investigated the association of long term exposure to major air pollutants with current cardiovascular health. This outcome was a measure of health rather than disease, as measured by the Cardiovascular Health Index (CVHI) developed by the American Heart Association. METHODS: We analyzed 2011 data from 3007 counties across the US using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Area Health Resources File. Air Quality Index (AQI) for five major pollutants from 2001-2011; Ozone, Sulfur dioxide and Carbon monoxide and Fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter of 10 and ≤2.5 μm) were obtained from the EPA Air Quality System database. Categories were based on the 11-year average pollutant AQI level and using Jenks optimization method; persistently good, variant and persistently bad. Associations between categories and the mean CVHI were evaluated using Poisson regression models adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status at the individual and population level. RESULTS: PM2.5 was most frequently measured (938 counties) and carbon monoxide least frequently (224 counties). Correlations between pollutants were moderate and significant (p<0.0001), ranging from r=0.30 between CO and Oz to r=0.52 between SD and PM2.5. Four pollutants had 11-year average AQI levels significantly associated with increased mean CVHI score of individuals. Living in a county categorized as ‘persistently good’ or ‘variant’ AQI levels for ozone is significantly associated with an estimated 3% increase in CVHI (95% CI 0.1% - 5.0%) as compared to living in a county of ‘persistently bad’ AQI levels. In addition, living in a county of only ‘persistently good’ AQI levels for PM2.5 is significantly associated with an estimated 5% increase in CVHI (95% CI 3% - 9%) as compared to living in a county of ‘persistently bad’ AQI levels. Inverse relationships existed for both PM10 and carbon monoxide. CONCLUSIONS: It is difficult to tease apart the independent effects of individual air pollutants on health as humans are exposed to a mixture of gases. However we have shown that at the individual level, there is an association between long term exposure to air pollution and its effects on current cardiovascular health. Further research is needed to determine whether these effects exist at varying levels of subject characteristics.

Intergenerational Ethics and Individual Duties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cripps
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Combined Actions ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics ◽  
Individual Duties

This chapter defends a cooperative promotional model of individual intergenerational moral duties. The individual can feel powerless and detached in the face of intergenerational moral challenges, which generally result from the combined actions of billions of people and require global-level solutions. Two individual duties are commonly debated: to promote effective collective action and to minimize one’s own contribution to the problem, for example, by cutting one’s carbon footprint. The cooperative promotional model incorporates both possibilities, including in many cases a duty to have a small family. The argument starts by assuming a shared or “weakly collective” duty requiring the global affluent to organize to avoid severe intergenerational injustice, a claim widely defended on positive and negative grounds. On the cooperative promotional model, each individual must cooperate with motivated others as far as reasonably possible to promote fair, effective, efficient collective-level progress toward this collective end. In determining how to act, individuals must consider collective or reliably coordinated action as well as the chance of triggering significant change through adding to aggregated individual actions. The account does not automatically require “taking up the slack” for obstructive individuals and institutions—it will often mandate cooperating to increase compliance—but is complicated by the need to adjust for unwilling duty bearers.

Feeling as knowing — Part II

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Järvilehto
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Behavioral Observations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Consciousness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Brain

In the latter part of this two-article sequence, the concept of emotion as reorganization of the organism-environment system is developed further in relation to consciousness, subjective experience and brain activity. It is argued that conscious emotions have their origin in reorganizational changes in primitive co-operative organizations, in which they get a more local character with the advent of personal consciousness and individuality, being expressed in conscious emotions. However, the conscious emotion is not confined to the individual only, but it gets its content and the emotional quale in the social context, and in relation to the norms of the given culture. Emotion is fundamentally the process of ascription of meaning to the parts of the world which are relevant in the achievement of results of behavior. Although emotions may be studied as reorganizational processes in the organism-environment system with the help of physiological recordings and behavioral observations, it is argued — in contrast to the mainstream cognitive science — that emotions cannot be localized in the brain, although the brain is important in their generation as a part of the organism-environment system. It is suggested that the parts of the brain most closely related to emotional expression contain neurons subserving functional systems which are formed in early development, and which are therefore most intimately related to reorganizational processes in the organism-environment system.

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