Human beings navigate daily life by relying on a set of implicit assumptions about reality, assumptions so deeply ingrained as to appear self-evident. This paper examines ten of these assumptions, collectively termed naïve psychology, and demonstrates that each of them, when subjected to rigorous scientific and philosophical scrutiny, proves to be fundamentally mistaken. The ten beliefs...
This article aims to present a model to explain the phenomenology of hypnosis, with particular reference to plastic monoideism and its phenomenology, integrating some of the current scientific theories of consciousness, particularly those of Karl Friston's free energy theory. Experimental studies demonstrate the existence of a close relationship between the individual's representational system...
This paper advances a paleo-psychological reconstruction of the evolution of human consciousness, arguing that the Ego is a relatively recent development in Homo sapiens. For most of human history, individuals are proposed to have functioned without reflective consciousness, initially guided by instinct and later by a symbolic, non-verbal Unconscious. Around 60,000 years ago, a primitive...
This paper is a report anchored in prior experiments and aims to describe consciousness using hypnosis as an application of a methodology drawn from experimental science. Three premises were posited. The first, epistemological in nature, assumes that all reality experienced and created by the individual belongs to an internal representational reality. The second, that hypnosis is capable of...
Inducing out-of-body experiences in hypnosis (H-OBEs) offers an almost unique opportunity to investigate them under controlled conditions. OBEs were induced as an imaginative task in a resting condition (I-OBE) or in hypnosis (H-OBE) in a group of 15 high hypnotizable subjects. A 32-channel EEG was recorded, and the spectral power and imaginary coherence of each frequency band and each couple...
Inducing out-of-body experiences in hypnosis (H-OBEs) offers an almost unique opportunity to investigate them in a controlled condition.OBEs were induced as imaginative task in resting conditions (I-OBE) or in hypnosis (H-OBE) in 15 high hypnotizable subjects. A 32-channel EEG was recorded and the spectral power and imaginary coherence were calculated. At the end of each session, the...