从玄之又玄到重玄的演变

从玄之又玄到重玄经历了一个演变过程.玄之又玄本意是幽远而又幽远,指道的不可知性与终极性.重玄的最初含义是重天,佛道两教学者用它来指宗教的终极境界.隋唐时期重玄与双遣连用,指遣有、遣无、遣其遣的三重否定思想方法.重玄与双遣的结合标志着从玄之又玄向重玄的转变最终完成.     

小脑的非运动功能

近年来,人们逐渐认识到小脑的非运动功能,就有关小脑的非运动功能研究进展进行了概述,并指出深入研究小脑的非运动功能对于认识脑功能具有重要意义.     

小脑的非运动功能

近年来,人们逐渐认识到小脑的非运动功能,就有关小脑的非运动功能研究进展进行了概述,并指出深入研究小脑的非运动功能对于认识脑功能具有重要意义。     

Mystery of the anti-McCollough effect

The McCollough Effect (ME) is a complex perceptual aftereffect that remains of interest half a century after its discovery. It is argued that a recently reported variant, dubbed the anti-McCollough effect, is not the reverse of the ME, with aftereffect colors in the same direction as the inducing stimuli. A red-horizontal stimulus leads to a reddish aftereffect not because of red-horizontal parings, but despite them. The anti-ME is a weak standard-direction ME produced by complementary afterimage colors (afterimage green with horizontal), rather than by environmental colors, first shown decades ago. It is not a new type of contingent aftereffect. The red-horizontal pair does not interfere with the afterimage green-horizontal pair it produces because a single color-orientation pairing provides more ambiguous input than does the standard two orientation-color pairings (red-horizontal, green-vertical) of the ME. It is also argued that not even one orientation-contingent color aftereffect is convincingly shown in the "anti"-ME, let alone, as has previously been suggested, two simultaneous orientation-contingent color aftereffects in opposite directions at different levels of the visual system, in which the higher-level effect suppresses the downstream effect from reaching consciousness. The "anti"-ME can be explained by existing theories of contingent aftereffects, including perceptual-learning theory.     

Mystery Appeal: Effects of Uncertainty and Resolution on the Enjoyment of Mystery

To investigate determinants of mystery enjoyment, a short story was manipulated to produce different levels of uncertainty regarding two suspects' criminal involvement (low vs. high uncertainty) and to create different resolution types (denouement, confirmation, and surprise). Participants' (N = 84) reactions and enjoyment were ascertained via questionnaires after reading the mystery development and after the mystery resolution. Moreover, personality assessments were administered. Results show that enjoyment of the mystery reception was greater when participants were highly uncertain regarding the culprit and experienced high levels of curiosity. As hypothesized, resolution enjoyment depended on type of resolution and self-esteem. A resolution that confirmed respondents' suspicion was disliked by persons with high self-esteem, whereas respondents with low self-esteem disliked a surprising resolution. Enjoyment of a general denouement, when participants had not held specific expectations, was not affected by self-esteem; high self-esteem participants in the "surprise" condition and low self-esteem participants in the "confirmation" condition experienced comparable enjoyment.     

The Mystery of Sexuality

Abstract

Mystery is a term that permeates and energizes the Catholic tradition. In its strictest terms, it refers to the infinite incomprehensibility of God, but the USCCB speaks also of “the great mystery” of human sexuality. In this essay, only to establish the meanings of mystery as we use the word, we consider, first and briefly, the mystery of God and the oikonomia established by God and, then and more extendedly, the mystery of human sexuality. We offer a meditation on this mystery, leading to a theological understanding of it as a lower-case sacrament of the presence of the incomprehensible God in human history. This analysis leads us to conclude that human sexuality demands ongoing analysis to be better understood physically, psychologically and spiritually in order to be better understood theologically as a lower-case sacrament revelatory of the presence of God.     

Cerebellum and conditioned reflexes

The central assumption of existing models of motor learning in the cerebellum is that cerebellar mossy fibres signal information about the context in which a movement is to be performed and climbing fibres signal in relation to a movement error. This leads to changes in the responsiveness of Purkinje cells, which on the next occasion will generate a corrected output in a given context. Support for this view has come mainly from work on adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex. The discovery that classically conditioned eyeblink responses depend critically on the cerebellum offers the possibility to study the learning of a novel behaviour, rather than modification of an existing reflex. After repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus, such as a tone, with a blink-eliciting stimulus, the tone will acquire the ability to elicit a blink on its own. We review evidence from studies employing a wide variety of techniques that the cerebellum is critical in this type of learning as well as evidence that mossy and climbing fibres have roles assigned to them in cerebellar learning models.     

Mystery in family therapy

Existential approaches to family psychotherapy are considerably different from the problem centered approaches to treatment which are currently so popular in the field. Gabriel Marcel's distinction between a problem centered and a mystery centered understanding of life is utilized to overview the basic and deep differences between existential and problem centered approaches to family treatment.     

"灵魂"出壳之谜

最近,我的一位与我有桃园结义般友情的朋友死了,我抚尸大恸,不肯骤舍,此情此景使在场的人接连陪了几场落泪。最令我感动的是那位被丧家请来的阴阳师,他出于赞叹友谊的魅力,突然间要我接受真情考验,说,你们的感情既然如此深厚,灵魂出走时我让你俩最后见上一面,因为此时他的刚刚出壳的灵魂正隐藏在某个角落里,出殡前的头一天离家,走的是东南方向,灵魂升腾时将触及屋前那个袅然升起的树枝,你看就是那个,在老杈股旁边悄然独出的那枝!我和在场的人对屋前这株梨树突然发生了兴趣,这是株百年老树,目睹过在他的身边居住过的几代甚至十几代人,老树无…     

“神医”之谜

一、神医真神神医之“神”由不得你不信,只举两个例子佐证。其一,是几年前媒体持批判态度披露的神功治疗肿瘤。介绍一位年过花甲的老先生,某一天感觉胸部疼痛,经医院X光诊查,发现胸部有一肿块。这位老先生家庭经济条件欠佳,怕负担不起就医的高额费用,恰逢当时的特异功能热和各种功法的狂潮泛滥,便交些费用参加了当时名头颇响的大师张宏堡举办的功法学习班,期望靠神功治好自己的病。大师要老先生在他的指导下接功,就见大师挥臂,老先生跺脚,双边互动,齐声呼喝“走.走”。接功后,老先生就觉肿瘤消失,疼痛也减轻了。其二,是笔者的一位女性乡邻…     

解读道教“宝诰”的奥秘

一、宝诰的起源与形成 道教的宝诰是一种特殊的文体,系由前、后两个部分组成,前者为短篇的浅近骈文,后者则为神真的名号.闵智亭道长主编的<玄门日诵早晚功课经注>指出: