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Overcoming Modernity

Synchronicity and Image-Thinking

By: Yasuo Yuasa

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Overcoming Modernity

Synchronicity and Image-Thinking

By: Yasuo Yuasa

In Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings from Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the modern Western paradigm of thinking and in its place proposes a more holistic worldview. A wide range of topics are examined, including the relationships between language, being, psychology, and logic; Jung's concept of synchronicity; the Yijing (Book of Changes); paranormal phenomena; physics and metaphysics; mind and body; and teleology. Through these explorations, engaging a wide range of Western and East Asian thought, Yuasa offers an alternative to the scientific worldview inherited from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new paradigm involves the integration of space-and-time and mind-and-body, thematics brought together through what Yuasa calls "image-thinking," a mode of thinking that incorporates image-experience.

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079147867X

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The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

By: Yasuo Yuasa

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The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

By: Yasuo Yuasa

This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Yuasa examines the concept of ki-energy as it has been used in such areas as acupuncture, Buddhist and Taoist meditation, and the martial arts. To explain the achievement of mind-body oneness in these traditions he offers an innovative schematization of the lived body. His approach is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, offering insights into Western philosophy, religion, medical science, depth psychology, parapsychology, theater, and physical education. To substantiate the relationship that ki-energy forms between the human body and its environment, Yuasa introduces contemporary scientific research on ki-energy in China and Japan, as well as evidence from acupuncture medicine and from the experience of meditators and martial arts practitioners. This evidence requires not only a rethinking of the living human body and of the mind-body and mind-matter relation, but also calls into question the adequacy of the existing scientific paradigm. Yuasa calls for an epistemological critique of modern science and explores the issue of the relation of teleology to science.

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1438424698

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9781438424699

The Body

Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory

By: Yasuo Yuasa

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The Body

Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory

By: Yasuo Yuasa

This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired—rather than as essential or innate. Depending on the individual's own developmental state, the mind-body connection can vary from near dissociation to almost perfect integration. Whereas Western mind-body theories have typically asked what the mind-body is, Yuasa asks how the mind-body relation varies on a spectrum from the psychotic to the yogi, from the debilitated to the athletic, from the awkward novice to the master musician. Yuasa first examines various Asian texts dealing with Buddhist meditation, kundalini yoga, acupuncture, ethics, and epistemology, developing a concept of the "dark consciousness" (not identical with the psychoanalytic unconscious) as a vehicle for explaining their basic view. He shows that the mind-body image found in those texts has a striking correlation to themes in contemporary French phenomenology, Jungian psychoanalysis, psychomatic medicine, and neurophysiology. The book clears the ground for a provocative meeting between East and West, establishing a philosophical region on which science and religion can be mutually illuminating.

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Overcoming Modernity

Synchronicity and Image-Thinking

By: Yasuo Yuasa

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Synchronicity and Image-Thinking

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The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

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Quark-Gluon Plasma

From Big Bang to Little Bang

By: Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake

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Quark-Gluon Plasma

From Big Bang to Little Bang

By: Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake

Quark-Gluon Plasma introduces the primordial matter, composed of two types of elementary particles, created at the time of the Big Bang. During the evolution of the universe, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) undergoes a transition to hadronic matter governed by quantum chromodynamics, the law of strong interactions. After an introduction to gauge theories, various aspects of quantum chromodynamic phase transitions are illustrated in a self-contained manner. The cosmological approach and renormalization group are discussed, as well as the cosmological and astrophysical implications of QGP, on the basis of Einstein's equations. Recent developments towards the formation of QGP in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are also presented in detail. This text is suitable as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. It includes eight appendices and over a hundred exercises.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521561086

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Book's by Yasuo Yuasa

Overcoming Modernity

Overcoming Modernity

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

The Body

The Body

Overcoming Modernity

Overcoming Modernity

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

Quark-Gluon Plasma

Quark-Gluon Plasma

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