Ilumina-Ação: diálogos entre a Gestalt-terapia e o Zen-Budismo

The main purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between Gestalt-therapy and Zen-Buddhism universes, based on a conceptual analysis for contributing to Gestalt-therapy theoretical development. Gestalt model has been adopted as investigation methodology using the creation and destruction figures (gestalten). Initially it was determined Perls as the start up reference or initial figure, due to his interest in Zen-Buddhism. The analysis of his collected works and auto-biography has defined his contact with Buddhism and, as consequence, its reverberation in Gestalt-therapy creation. Within Gestalt-therapy theoretical content, some concepts are related to Zen and others illustrate a close interaction, as the awareness flow/continuum awareness and meditation. Both Gestalt-therapy and Zen-Buddhism have been investigated on the human being conceptual analysis perspective, as well as “self”, ‘I’, ‘here and now’, temporality, addressing their similarities and differences. Situations captured from Gestalt-Therapy clinical practice, stories and Zen-Buddhism ‘mondos’ have contributed for the understanding of concepts presented in this study. This relationship establishment has allowed the identification of main articulation structures between Gestalt-therapy and Zen-Buddhism, pointing out the fundamental topics that differentiate their identities

deus israel and roman introits

the roman wedding introit deus israel (its text extracted from the book of tobit) was assembled during the latter half of the ninth century using two initial and three cadential formulas that pervade the urban repertory of deuterus introits. at least fifteen additional formulas can be identified within this modal group, by far the most numerous among introits at rome. one initial figure stands out from the rest of these formulas, introducing a ‘paschal tone’ incorporating the alleluias regularly interjected into eastertide introits. narrow in range and archaic in style, the paschal tone quotes a roman office antiphon for easter week dating from the seventh century or earlier, whose pitches – the emblematic initial permeating the tone – eventually generated a psalm-tone differentia and a formula used to begin many later deuterus introits, including deus israel.

The Play-off Probability Problem

few years ago, just as I was about to introduce binomial probabilities in my precalculus class, the Edmonton Oilers were in a first-round play-off series with the Dallas Stars. Each team had won a game. The series suggested a problem: given that the Oilers had a probability p of winning any game, what was the probability that they would win the series? I focus on the Oilers because the small university where I teach is located a one-hour drive from their home in Edmonton. Our initial figure of p = .3 was based loosely on the Oilers' record against the Stars. We began with what I will call the brute-force method, treating the rest of the series as a five-game series. After completing the brute-force solution, we searched for a shorter, more elegant, solution. Although the solutions that we unearthed along our path of discovery are not new, they illustrate beautifully the process by which many mathematical problems are solved, extended, and generalized.

Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science

Proper recognition came belatedly to the work of Karl Popper. The novelty and power of his comprehensive philosophy went largely unnoticed for decades, his views being misapprehended, to the extent they were apprehended at all, as an uncompelling variation on the dominant Positivist theme. In the past two decades, however, recognition has become widespread. He can lay claim to being the initial figure in a vital and flourishing tradition in the contemporary literature; his views find expression even in undergraduate curricula; and he finds himself the welcome subject of a two-volume issue in the Schilpp series, The Library of Living Philosophers. The appearance of this collection is the occasion of this notice.Unfortunately, the spectre of misapprehension surrounds Popper still, and haunts what should have been some of the most interesting pages in this collection. At issue here is Popper's conception of rational scientific methodology, a conception which has received substantial criticism from inductivist and anti-inductivist quarters alike. Partly from conviction, and partly for the sake of argument (Popper is an anti-inductivist), I shall adopt the latter viewpoint in this essay. My sympathies, however, will be with his critics.

Changes in pH, Carbonate and Lactate of the Blood of Yearling Kamloops Trout, Salmo gairdneri, During and Following Severe Muscular Activity

Alterations in the blood levels of lactate, carbonate, hydrogen ion and hemoglobin following vigorous muscular exercise were studied in yearling Kamloops trout, Salmo gairdneri, over four years.Lactate increased during exercise and during the first 2 hours of rest, returning to the initial level after 6 to 8 hours. Carbonate increased to a maximum during the first 3 minutes of exercise, then dropped precipitously to a minimum far below the initial level after [Formula: see text] hour of rest, later rose to near the initial level at the 4th hour of recovery, maintained this until the 12th hour, but it had decreased again at the 24th hour. Hydrogen ion concentration rose sharply during the first 3 minutes of activity, then fell off to a stable level a little above the initial figure until the end of exercise, after which it fell substantially below initial level and had not completely recovered after 24 hours of rest. A marked decrease in swimming rate occurred after 3 minutes exercise, following the initial rise of carbonate and hydrogen ion concentration.

Association of Multiple Pregnancies with Diabetes of Suggested Pituitary Origin

The patient, a woman, aged 40, had five normal pregnancies before, and six abnormal pregnancies after, the onset of diabetic symptoms. The case differed from typical diabetes in the following respects. In spite of severe thirst and polyuria, lasting untreated for six years, the patient became very fat, and the condition did not progress in the usual way. At the termination of the last pregnancy the glycosuria disappeared and the blood-sugar became almost normal, although the diet was very little restricted and all insulin was omitted. Insulin had only a small hypoglycæmic effect and the blood-sugar curves after glucose were atypical. The fasting level was raised, but the blood-sugar returned to the initial figure in two hours, suggesting that sugar was being well tolerated in spite of the hyperglycæmia. A very severe ketosis and a lowered threshold for glucose were present during the last three months of the pregnancy and disappeared immediately after labour. At labour, extreme hydramnios was obvious, and a very large fœtus weighing 12 lb. 6 oz. was stillborn. On the fourth day after the labour 10 units of pituitary extract (1 c.c. pituitrin) produced an epileptiform attack and nearly killed the patient. There was a temporary return of the glycosuria, without hyperglycæmia, and a transient ketosis. The belief that the pituitary is or was involved is supported by the patient's history that her head had grown larger, and by the definite constriction of the temporal fields of vision in both eyes. It therefore seems reasonable to conclude that the disturbance of carbohydrate metabolism was not due to disease of the pancreas causing a deficient production of endogenous insulin, but to the antagonistic influence of a hyperactive pituitary gland associated with repeated pregnancies.