{"title":"Integrated Inquiry: Mystical Intuition and Research","authors":"M. Anthony","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010080","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to initiate a broader dialogue on the use of integrated intelligence (or INI) in formal research. The application of INI in research is referred to as integrated inquiry. The idea of integrated intelligence, and its specific applications, can be viewed as genuine cognitive processes, or for the more skeptical, as provocations to inspire the researcher toward greater creativity. The first part of this paper briefly defines important terms and situates the idea of integrated intelligence within a historical and civilisational perspective. Finally, the most important section of this paper outlines specific and practical ways that INI can be used by the modern researcher. The five INI tools are the Intuitive Di- ary, Free-form Writing, Meditative States, The Feeling Sense, and Embracing Synchronicity. The essential argument of this paper is that integrated inquiry can greatly enhance research.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114205074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial - Special Issue on “Information and Spirituality”","authors":"J. Kari","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"29 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131335317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information and Spirit","authors":"Alexander MacRae","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010054","url":null,"abstract":"Definitions that relate to each other are derived for Information and spirit. An experiment that seeks to stimu- late the phonological store is described and the responses obtained analyzed, using a unique monitoring method based on variations in electrical permittivity when neurons fire. The importance of the non-sensory inputs to the sub-vocal rehearsal system in the phonological lop is mentioned. An experiment is outlined wherein a mental stimulus is applied to the sub- ject and the electrical response is monitored and converted to audible speech. This is thus non-vocal speech and its charac- teristics are examined in relation to the original stimuli. The results revealed openings for further research.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124292641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Spiritual Awareness in Terms of Anomalous Information Access","authors":"David L. Rousseau","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010040","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I identify a link between the problem of explaining anomalous access to information ('psi' or 'psychic ability') and the problem of giving an account of the nature of consciousness ('the mind-body problem'). I argue that progress with understanding psi requires selecting a suitable ontological model for dealing with the mind-body prob- lem. I review alternatives and argue, on philosophical and empirical grounds, for the viability and suitability of a model I call Naturalistic Structural Dualism, in which minds are spatially extended substances, as a working hypothesis for further analysis. I conclude that in such a dualistic model psychic ability is best conceptualised as mediated by sensori-motor channels of the mind. I predict, from this, the existence of further sensory channels that engage with purely mental aspects of reality. I show that there is empirical support for this theoretical proposal, and argue that this sensory capacity, which I name axionesis, underpins both ordinary perceptiveness and our capacity for deep spiritual experiences. The outcome is an expansion of the concept of psi to reference two distinct groups of sensori-motor channels of the mind, one group relat- ing to the classical concept of psychic ability (and reflecting the mind's direct engagement with physical aspects of real- ity) and one group relating to the classical concept of spirituality (and reflecting the mind's direct engagement with mental aspects of reality). By establishing a relationship between spiritual perception and sensory channels of the mind, a frame- work is created that enables the study of spirituality in terms of information theory.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122505694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Use of Knowledge Organizing Tools: Case Studies with ClassicSacred Works","authors":"K. N. Prasad","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132901479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Spirit Messages in African Conflicts the Case of Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda","authors":"P. Sturges","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010076","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst African civil conflicts are usually presented in the media as either political struggles, terrorism or mere banditry, in some at least there is a substantial spiritual element. Conflicts Zimbabwe, Mozambique and elsewhere in Af- rican have been shown to contain highly significant contributions from spirit forces intermediated by mediums, traditional healers, and prophets. Aspects of the Acholi insurgency in Northern Uganda have been initiated and led by spirit medi- ums, notably Alice Auma and Joseph Kony. Because Kony's career as an insurgent leader has been marked by atrocity and the lack of an explicit political programme, he has often been dismissed as a terrorist. It is argued here that he at least deserves the status of 'social bandit' as defined by Hobsbawm, and that his role as a voice for spirit messages is still a sig- nificant factor. It is concluded that without recognition of the role of spirit messages in African conflicts these conflicts will be imperfectly understood and their resolution will be correspondingly more problematic.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129863015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Consciousness Field","authors":"J. Hurtak, D. Hurtak","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010023","url":null,"abstract":"Textbooks tell us that our brain is the source of all thought. Like a computer, we learn to react and make deci- sions based on past programming and what we have learned from our environment. However, now scientists like Henry Stapp from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stuart Hameroff from the University of Arizona are researching brain functions that work beyond classical physics. They are no longer content with seeing thought as being simply the chemical processing of neurotransmitters. What has emerged are theoretical proposals that the brain's processing of in- formation takes place through quantum mechanical processes where consciousness, itself, is being seen as part of a sec- ond-order quantum field. Quantum mechanical processes have provided researchers with an entirely new field of understanding of thought and memory processes. They are examining the chemical processes in the ionic flow of elements (e.g., in actin filaments) which are equally if not more complex than the chemical neurological processes. In quantum mechanics, electrons behave like waves. In a quantum world, there exists also the wave-particle duality of matter, where the wave can contain all the dynamical information about the system, in the manner of a hologram. This means that the total information of the system is available in every part and information becomes active in a \"non-local\" environment. \"Non-locality\" reveals that pho- tons can exist simultaneously in an infinite number of locations or quantum states within the wave showing measurable interactions at a distance.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131184122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge Representation in the Spiritual and Cultural Domains","authors":"Raghavan K.S.","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010005","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge organization systems such as thesauri are intended to structure and represent concepts in a domain in a manner that facilitates their effective employment in knowledge representation, i.e. representation of subjects of in- formation resources (Classification and indexing) and users' queries (search and retrieval). Representation of 'aboutness' of a discourse and of the concepts in it is, to some extent, a function of the nature and characteristics of the 'domain'. De- sign of multilingual thesauri for multicultural domains such as 'spirituality' present many problems - both structural and semantic. Based on the experience in working on two multilingual thesauri in culture-specific domains, the principal is- sues that arise have been identified and illustrated with a few examples. The strategies that have been adopted to over- come the problems are also explained. A few general principles that could serve as guidelines in building multilingual thesauri especially in culture-specific domains have been suggested.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133639973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outcomes of Information: An Analysis of Spiritual Messages","authors":"J. Kari","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010063","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the outcomes of spiritual information via publications containing such information. Out- come of information is defined as any process that ensues from receiving a message, and the defining feature of spiritual information is that it is perceived as a message originally provided or received by extraphysical means. Finnish publica- tions reportedly produced by means of a spiritual method were sought out. As a result, 109 documents ranging from the 1940s to the 2000s were obtained, processed and analyzed. The qualitative data analysis was carried out inductively, fol- lowing the tenets of the interpretivist methodology. The data suggested that spiritual information is of great significance in all contexts, especially in everyday life, albeit there were also outcomes that can be regarded as trivial. The main result of the analysis is the discovery of five types of information outcome: processing, dispositions to, communicating, using, and effects of information. These types are also categorized at a general and specific level, yielding more detail about the con- cepts. The real contribution of this study is that it pulls together a multitude of various outcomes of information, and orga- nizes them into a coherent, holistic typology. In so doing, the conceptual structure simultaneously implies that research ar- eas which have earlier been considered as separate (e.g. information use and information sharing) can in actual fact be connected, if there is just a will to do it.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115465144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microvita and Transformative Information","authors":"M. Bussey","doi":"10.2174/1874947X01103010028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874947X01103010028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores microvita theory and its relevance to information science. There are two parts to this, the first is theoretical and outlines microvita theory as an epistemological product of the Tantric theory of consciousness and mind. The civilizational value of such a theory is contextualized via a consideration of Gilles Deleuze's concept of tran- scendental empiricism. Links to information science are made particularly with regard to Bates' evolutionary reading of information and to Dervin's sense making epistemological chronology. The second part of the paper explores microvita theory as an emergent possibility by profiling six developments in cultural practice. Each hint at the transformative possi- bilities before us when considering information from broader epistemological contexts than the given Western rational- field we generally accept as the context for research. It is suggested that microvita theory invites in a shamanic disposition or temper which is comfortable with paradox and aporia. To navigate such terrain requires an appreciation for the spiritual within the working context of the world. The spiritual is taken as simply another form of data collection in a universe that is as mysterious as it is wonderful.","PeriodicalId":250515,"journal":{"name":"The Open Information Science Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114950887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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