Awakening as a Trait-Level Transformation of Consciousness
arXiv Preprint Archive October 14, 2026 Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar et al. preprint
Awakening is reported across contemplative traditions yet remains poorly defined in science, where it is often conflated with transient states induced by meditation or psychedelics, obscuring its significance for theories of consciousness and cognitive architecture. We treat awakening as a functional construct capturing convergence across Hindu and Buddhist sources, phenomenological and...
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