The rapid growth of empirical research on altered states of consciousness, the psychology of meditation and, over the last decade, psychedelic science has turned reliable measures of mystical experience into a key research instrument, whereas Ukrainian psychology still lacks both a systematic review of this toolkit and Ukrainian-language adaptations of the leading instruments. The aim of the...
A theory is proposed — the Information-Coherence Model (ICM) — describing consciousness as a dynamic order parameter Ψ that manages the entropy of biosystems through attention coherence C. The theory rests on two phenomenological equations: the evolution equation of the order parameter and the dynamic equation of observed entropy. Both are motivated by Landau dynamics and Prigogine's...
This article explores contemporary esoteriology through the prism of philosophical epistemology, arguing for its interpretation as a specific form of spiritual knowledge that addresses the inner, transformative dimensions of human cognition. In contrast to classical epistemological models grounded in objectivity, discursive rationality, and empirical verification, esoteriological knowledge is...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between qualia and language. Author will begin with the explanation of the nature of qualia using the negative method (second and third chapter), which will reveal that qualia are neither ontological properties in a traditional sense, viewed as instances of subjective experience, nor that they possess any epistemological value as such. In...