Religions
August 20, 2025
Márk Losoncz
1 citation
Drawing upon a meticulous delineation of pure consciousness’s fundamental and necessary features—including unstructuredness, maximal simplicity, selflessness, awareness as such, zero-perspective, and the absence of specific phenomenal qualities—this article asserts that a full-fledged experience of pure consciousness is attainable within the psychedelic state. Critically, this psychedelic...
Filozofija i drustvo
2025
Márk Losoncz
Over the past 30 years, there has been an increasing scientific and philosophical attention to what contemplative and spiritual traditions for millennia have known as pure consciousness, free from concrete empirical content and egoic self-awareness. The article addresses whether meditation is the best candidate for the research of pure consciousness, as Thomas Metzinger claims in his book The...
Magyar Filozófiai Szemle
2024
Márk Losoncz
Vajon a módosult tudatállapotokat valóban mint a spontán értelemképződés folyamatait kell leírnunk? Ez lenne a legmegfelelőbb konceptuális keret a megragadásukhoz? Mielőtt egyértelmű nemmel válaszolna, ez a cikk kritikai vizsgálatnak veti alá az egyes fogalmakat: az „értelemképződést”, a „spontaneitást”, a „módosult tudatállapotokat”. Ez a megközelítés segíthet, hogy radikálisan újragondoljuk a...
Philosophies
July 21, 2023
Márk Losoncz
1 citation
This article not only mentions spiritual anarchism nominally, as do so many previous articles, but tries to define it as precisely as possible. The definition assumes that the self itself can be a source of unjustifiable authority and a limitation to freedom, and that spiritual anarchism is nothing more than being open to that which transegoically transcends our narrow perspective. The article...
Problemos
April 25, 2023
Márk Losoncz
6 citations
This article analyzes the experience of heightened reality, whereby subjects feel or think that what they are facing is reality itself, or somehow a ‘more real reality’, a hyperreality. My main examples for this specific kind of metacognitive supervision are from reports about the near-death experience, the psychedelic experience and the mystical experience. I will interpret accounts of such...