Religious experience

The Come Up of Cool: "Where Words Come From" In "Where Words Come From," Anglo-American author, Bill Bryson goes into thorough detail about words and how they were formed. He sets up five categories in which he chooses to better discuss the range of word origins and with these categories comprehension of a word's origin, meanings and significance in present day life becomes easier to understand. A popular word that one may come across at one point or another is the word cool. This well known…

The Ponzo Illusion is a study that uses geometrical-optical illusions that were first created by psychologist Mario Ponzo. The Ponzo Illusion uses a set of two horizontal lines that are laid across a set of vertical lines making it look like a train track. When looking at an image of both sets of lines, it creates the illusion that the picture is in three-dimensional. However, due to the three-dimensional image, some lines appear to be farther away than others, just as some appear to be closer…

I completed The ViualDNA Who Am I Quiz?. This quiz was based on the Big Five personality traits:openness, agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The Big 5 model is a taxonomy of personality traits that helps to identify people’s descriptions, or rating, of one another (Srivastava, 2015). The model was used by early trait psychologist, such as Cattell and Fiske. It is important to note that the Big Five Model is characterized to the extreme ends. For example, when…

research on personality (Whiteman, Martha C, 2003). According to the five-factor model, an individual’s personality, using common language word descriptors, can be categorised using 5 broad dimensions. These five factors can be described as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. There exist facets for each of the global factors, for instance neuroticism is said to include anxious-calm; Impulsive-controlled; Vulnerable-secure. The Five-factor…

NIYAMA Niyama is the second stage in the raja yoga. The five rules of Niyama are in the form of Do’s. They are the attitudes we need to take toward ourselves. The rules are: 1. Cleanliness ( Sauca ) 2. Contentment ( Santosa ) 3. Austerity ( Tapas ) 4. Self-study or Introspection ( Svadhyaya ) 5. Devotion to the Supreme Lord ( Isvarapranidhana ) 1.4.1.3. ASANAS: (YOGIC POSTURES) In the Yoga sutras of Pathanjali, asana means "to be seated in a position that is firm, but relaxed".…

Big 5 Personality test found five major dimensions of human personality known as the OCEAN model (***). Each letter of this acronym represents a trait such as, O-Openness to Experience, C-Conscientiousness, E-Extraversion, A-Agreeableness, and N-Neuroticism. According to the outcome of the test, I am not open to new experiences, I am reliable and organized, I tend to be shy, I am considerate, and I am a relaxed person. I thought that some of the results that were listed were fairly true.…

pleasurable experiences and nothing else. A hedonist might say that if you enjoy doing something, then doing so is pleasurable, so your life is good. Well, according to Robert Nozick, a very famous philosopher, a good life is not just about having a good time, it’s about having a true time. There are other intrinsic goods we value such as truth, self-discovery, and autonomy, therefore hedonism is false. Nozick provided a very well-known argument in an attempt to examine hedonism, the ‘Experience…

Like success, failure is many things to people. With a positive attitude, failure can become a learning experience to get your thoughts together in order to try again. The things we learn from failure can be fundamental for later success. Personally I have experienced failure one time in my life, and I was taught multiple things that I continue to carry with me throughout my daily life. A time where I experienced failure occurred in 2007. I was riding my horse, Cupcake. We were just doing our…

Ever wonder how a modern psychologist is able to accurately discover an individual’s personality traits? There is a system in place called the Big 5 and it allows for an accurate reading of a person’s traits in a simple and quick process. There was a time when it wasn’t such an easy endeavor and it took many psychologists many years of work to refine the process. Early trait theorist Gordon Allport found that it was possible to arrange an individual’s personal traits in order from the most to…

Nozick’s experience machine is a counterexample to the theory of hedonism. It has persuaded many that there is more to prudential value than the actual feeling of experiences. So what is the experience machine argument? If life contains the upmost amount of pleasure and minimal amount of pain as possible, there is no way to make that life better. It is the hedonic quality of experience that matters for considering the well-being of a persons life. The basic point is that the machine makes the…