International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 12, 2026
Elias Rubenstein
Structured practices in ritual and contemplative settings often claim reliable change through formal protocols, disciplined attention, prior alignment, and staged calibration. Debate commonly polarizes between extraordinary causation and generic expectancy accounts. This paper offers a third option: a methodological framework that treats such practices as informational interventions acting on...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
June 6, 2026
Elias Rubenstein
This article develops the concept of transformational information as a non-reductionist framework for analyzing how information mediates transformation, knowledge, and agency. Information is not treated merely as data, message, or representation, but as structured difference capable of producing durable and examinable change in orientation, coherence, trajectory, or practical capacity. The...
International Journal of Independent Research Studies
May 21, 2026
Elias Rubenstein
Psychedelic preparation is commonly discussed through screening, psychological readiness, set, setting, therapeutic support, and integration planning. In clinical-adjacent, retreat, ceremonial, and harm-reduction contexts, however, non-prescription pre-session supports are also used or discussed before psychedelic sessions. These practices may involve nutrients, botanicals, amino acids,...
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
2026
Elias Rubenstein
Recent psychedelic research has shown that compounds such as psilocybin, DMT, ayahuasca, and 5-MeO-DMT can induce acute altered states involving self-dissolution, altered reality-status, and heightened meaning attribution. Historical and cross-cultural evidence likewise suggests that nonordinary states have often been embedded within ritual, initiation, contemplative discipline, and structured...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
November 23, 2025
Elias Rubenstein
Magic as Signature Practice: An Informational Engineering Model in a Causal-Symmetric Framework develops a formal, testable account of why structured initiatory or esoteric practices can produce reliable inner transformation without appealing to supernatural causation. The paper reframes “magic” as a lawful informational intervention within a coupled agent–environment system. At its core is a...