Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 4, 2026
Vaz Sriharan
Why does transformation sometimes arrive through sudden recognition rather than gradual development? Why can someone spend years working toward a capacity that appears fully formed the moment they stop trying to build it? Why does intellectual understanding of wholeness often fail to translate into lived wholeness, whilst a brief recognition event can reorganise everything? This framework...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 13, 2026
Vaz Sriharan
This paper proposes identity fusion as attention collapse: when consciousness narrows completely onto single aspects of experience (diagnostic labels, professional roles, parental identity, recovery status, spiritual attainment), that aspect becomes experientially totalizing regardless of cultural valuation. The framework emerged through systematic phenomenological observation, documenting...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 13, 2026
Vaz Sriharan
This paper proposes a parsimony reframe: the protective defenses we call "ego" and the wounded parts we call "inner child" may represent the same consciousness, treated differently based on which therapeutic label is applied. The observation: when anger is labeled "ego," practitioners attempt transcendence. When the same anger is labeled "protective child," practitioners offer understanding....
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 9, 2026
Vaz Sriharan
This paper presents the Five Phases of Self-Acceptance, a phenomenological map describing how acceptance develops through distinct stages, from conceptual understanding through performed acceptance to genuine paradoxical integration. The core insight: acceptance includes accepting one's own non-acceptance of self. When this paradox is genuinely encountered (Phase 4-5), it appears to create...
Open MIND
March 5, 2026
Vaz Sriharan
This paper proposes identity fusion as attention collapse: when consciousness narrows completely onto single aspects of experience (diagnostic labels, professional roles, parental identity, recovery status, spiritual attainment), that aspect becomes experientially totalizing regardless of cultural valuation. The framework emerged through systematic phenomenological observation, documenting...