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Pavlos Kavouras

2 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026

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Homo Resonans: sound, resonance, and the emergence of sacred consciousness

Proceedings of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts September 23, 2026 Pavlos Kavouras

This paper examines the roles of sound, resonance, and rhythmic attunement in the emergence of consciousness and proposes a reconsideration of the human being as Homo Resonans: a fundamentally relational organism whose awareness unfolds through embodied participation in acoustic worlds. Drawing on phenomenology, anthropology, archaeology, sound studies, neuroscience, affect theory, and...

Māra and Śiva: Tricksters of Illusion, Teachers of Liberation

Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2025 Pavlos Kavouras

This paper explores the trickster as a philosophical and sonic modality of consciousness through the figures of Śiva, Krishna, Nārada, and Māra. Moving beyond Western binaries of good and evil, truth and deception, it engages non-Abrahamic ontologies in which disruption, illusion, and mischief are not oppositional to knowledge, but constitutive. Trickster logic unfolds abductively—neither...