This article explores recurring archetypal patterns across four spiritual, mythological, and esoteric systems: the Chinese I Ching, the European Tarot, Jewish Kabbalah, and the Heliopolitan pantheon of Ancient Egypt. Through a comparative symbolic analysis, it considers whether these traditions encode a recurrent structure of eight primary archetypal principles organised around a ninth unifying...
One of the challenges of materialism is explaining how phenomenal consciousness emerges from physicality. The theory of panpsychism has been proposed to answer this question by suggesting that consciousness is ubiquitous within the Universe, that the Universe is a mental construct, and that even the atoms and sub-atomical particles manifest a rudimentary form of consciousness or...
Altered states of consciousness (ASC) occur when there is a deviation from normal levels of psychological functioning. They can be self-induced through meditative practices or taking psychoactive substances and therapeutically induced through processes like hypnotic induction. They are determined physiologically when brain rhythms drop from the usual rhythm of waking consciousness to the slower...