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- Art and Science, Art History, Physical Optics, Light, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Linguistics, Poetry, optics, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1)
- Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Impressionism, Art and Sccience, Optics, Art History (1)
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- Impressionism, Monet, Renoir, Art History, Art and Science, Optics, Pin-Hole Camera, Thomas Young, Isaac Newton, Innovation (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Cognition and Perception
Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith
Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Monet and Renoir, friends collaborating in open air about 1865, discovered that sunlight filtering through a canopy of tree leaves does not produce the splotches and dapples that studio artists conventionally represented at the time but circles of light. Sometimes the circles of light punctuating the shade are clear, separate and crisp, as though light is being propagated as particles, but if the pin-hole gaps between leaves are very close together, they will project compound or superimposed circles that look like the waves that Thomas Young saw in his double slit experiment in 1803-4. Newton’s Opticks published in 1704 had …
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.
A Heart-Based Sufi Mindfulness Spiritual Practice Employing Self-Journeying, Faruk Arslan
A Heart-Based Sufi Mindfulness Spiritual Practice Employing Self-Journeying, Faruk Arslan
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Spiritual Psychology is the study and practice of the art and science of the human evolution of consciousness. The heart occupies an important place in Sufism and is considered to contain the divine spark that leads to spiritual realization. Fethullah Gülen’s action-oriented Sufi methods described in his book series “The Emerald Hills of the Heart” provides the basis for a heart-based therapeutic intervention through self-journeying, which is the objective of this thesis. These self-purification and mindfulness-related transpersonal methods generate a form of treatment that is culturally sensitive. Through my reflections in this research, I transformed my personal experiences into …