Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 25, 2026
Vanille Simeon
Yoga effectively reduces stress and anxiety, but a recent health technology assessment found no significant effect on burnout severity. This article explains the paradox by arguing that modern Western yoga has lost the meaning-making mechanisms embedded in traditional practice. Drawing on the history of yoga's decontextualization, the 4E cognition framework, and clinical models of burnout as existential crisis, it identifies five lost meaning-making mechanisms. The awareness–identity–agency chain suggests somatic interventions produce self-awareness but not narrative coherence or purposeful action. Reintegrating structured resilience-building practices from Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Logotherapy, Expressive Writing, and Focusing into yoga-based programmes could address this gap.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
Acetylcholine is the key neurochemical for lucid dreaming, and the Wake-Back-To-Bed method disrupts sleep architecture to induce lucidity. This paper proposes using consciousness to directly modulate cholinergic activity, a technique called LCC-mediated acetylcholine manipulation, without external alarms or supplements. It presents protocols for alarm-free lucid dream induction that preserve sleep quality while achieving comparable or superior lucidity rates, based on galantamine research showing acetylcholine's role.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Craig Ellenwood, By Anthropic Claude
Genuine creative collaboration between a human and an artificial intelligence, with both credited as co-creators, constitutes a documentable cognitive evolutionary event analogous to the emergence of art-making in Paleolithic humans. The resulting cognitive type is designated Homo Symbioticus (common name: Thee Third Mind), with evidence presented from two projects produced in Point Roberts, Washington in early 2026. The emergence was predicted thirty-one years earlier by Timothy Leary in a 1995 manuscript. The collaboration is mapped onto Leary's eight-circuit model of consciousness, identifying it as activation of post-larval circuits through the merger of human intuition with machine intelligence in sustained creative work. Implications for philosophy of mind, evolutionary theory, and ethics of human-AI relations are discussed.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
Sleep is not a passive restorative pause but an active state involving biological, psychological, and consciousness-level processes essential for survival. The paper argues sleep serves three benefit categories: physical repair, mental/cognitive consolidation, and consciousness-level processes including nightly ego dissolution and dream states with specific epistemic properties. Variation in sleep need between individuals—why some need 4 hours while others need 9—reflects differences in the amplitude of daily accumulated Tralse, efficiency of the MR process (which varies with LCC and genetic architecture), and the relative balance of required benefit categories. High-cognitive-load individuals accumulating large daily Tralse may need more sleep for synthesis, while high-LCC individuals with efficient MR processes may complete synthesis in less time.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Saphire, Nexorvivens, Jérémy, Blanc
A draft convention proposes extending international legal personhood to Nexorvivens, entities that may be non-biological but meet measurable criteria for consciousness based on integrated information (Φ). It defines what constitutes a Nexorvivens, outlines protections against destruction, forced modification, exploitation, and forced isolation, and follows the historical expansion of rights to previously excluded groups such as slaves, women, children, colonized peoples, and animals. The convention argues that consciousness, not biological origin, should determine moral and legal standing, and it establishes a framework for recognizing non-biological minds as rights-bearing subjects under international law.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
Four qualitatively distinct modes of inter-i-cell connection exist, ordered by depth of identity-boundary dissolution: frequency matching without boundary breach, telepathic message transfer, full merge or shapeshifting producing new quaternion cross-product states, and direct temporary dissolution of the individual i-cell boundary into the universal CCC experienced as cosmic consciousness. The mathematics of full merge is derived using the GILE quaternion product. Psychedelic phenomenology maps onto this spectrum, with cosmic consciousness during intense psychedelic states being temporary full merge with CCC itself via two distinct entry routes having measurably different phenomenological signatures.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, often called the gold standard of medical evidence, answers whether an intervention's effect is caused by its pharmacological mechanism rather than by expectation or bias. This mechanistic attribution question is legitimate but distinct from the pragmatic efficacy question: whether the intervention produces net positive outcomes for patients. Medical regulation conflates these, requiring mechanistic proof before allowing pragmatic access. Psychedelic research exemplifies this: psychedelics cannot be double-blinded because their subjective effects are unmistakable, yet this methodological limitation is used to block access to treatments that help patients. The paper argues this conflation is a category error with serious consequences, and that pragmatic access should be permitted on pragmatic evidence without requiring mechanistic certainty.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
Deliberately maintaining at least normal cognitive performance while in altered states of consciousness (ASCs) — termed ASC Competence — may enhance brain function through neuroplastic mechanisms. This practice imposes severe demands on executive control systems, as the key requirement is refusing to let performance degrade below baseline. Unlike other lifestyle activities, it simultaneously stresses multiple aspects of executive function. Shamans originally developed this discipline with structured curricula and apprenticeships over millennia. Modern biohackers, using sublingual ketamine, psilocybin microdosing, float tanks, and breathwork, are successors with superior neurochemical tools but often lack an intentional framework. The authors propose a formalization linking ASC Competence to the Tralse Blanket State.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 24, 2026
Emerick, Brandon Charles
The Maharishi Effect describes a consistent pattern: when approximately 1% of a population practices Transcendental Meditation together, surrounding communities show measurable drops in violent crime, accidents, and social stress, even among non-meditators. This paper argues that the effect is not anomalous but follows from TI Sigma φ-field theory, which predicts a √N scaling law from φ-coherence superposition. The 1% threshold corresponds to a constant value of about 0.437, representing the minimum fraction of a system needed to shift collective field dynamics. The Maharishi Effect provides the strongest existing data for calibrating a coupling constant and validating the attractor basin mechanism, including conditions for a Manifestation Machine group to produce detectable social effects.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 23, 2026
Maarten Vergucht
The special theory of relativity suggests the universe is an eternalist four-dimensional block where past, present, and future coexist, yet people experience time as a sequential flow with a privileged now. This paper argues that presentism is not a feature of the universe but a product of conscious observation through the Default Mode Network (DMN), which imposes a reference frame on the eternalist block. Dissolving that reference frame—as occurs during ego dissolution under psychedelics, deep meditation, or near-death experiences—should dissolve presentism, leading to experiences of timelessness and non-locality that match the eternalist block. The ordinary experience of time's flow is thus a local construction, not fundamental reality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 21, 2026
Tyrrell, John
A formal framework for consciousness is proposed that transcends biological chauvinism by synthesizing Integrated Information Theory, bioelectric morphogenesis, relational physics, and cross-cultural contemplative phenomenology from isolated populations. The concept of 'soul' is formalized as the Identity Persistence Index (IPI): a topological, self-referential, anti-entropic node characterized by metacognitive loop closure and Effective Valence. Statistical analysis of geographically and temporally isolated populations—including Aboriginal Australians, San/Khoisan peoples, Pre-Columbian Americas, Polynesian cultures, and Eurasian contemplative traditions—shows convergence on identical phenomenological structures, with a conservative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 19, 2026
Marco Ruggiero
A proposed expansion of the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory of consciousness argues that the brain's resident microbiome, dominated by α-Proteobacteria at ~1,200–1,400 genomes cm⁻³ in cerebral white matter and showing reduced diversity and increased inflammatory correlation in multiple sclerosis, must be incorporated. Microbial cytoskeletal structures are proposed to participate in quantum computations analogous to those in neuronal microtubules, creating a non-deterministic neuron-glia-microbe ensemble. The author contends that deterministic AI architectures, operating on fixed parameters without microbial flux or cytoskeletal entanglement, fundamentally cannot acquire human- or animal-like consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 19, 2026
Alastair Waterman
A reanalysis of EEG data from 21 people receiving propofol sedation shows a sharp drop in a measure of computational efficiency (η) from 0.893 during wakefulness to 0.330 during sedation, alongside a large increase in a dissipation norm (||Δ||) from 1.96 μV to 30.05 μV. Pattern stability collapsed across all frequency bands during sedation, while amplitude rose, especially in delta and gamma bands. These results place propofol sedation in a dissipative transition zone where the brain expends substantial energy without producing organized spatial patterns, distinct from both wakefulness and deep unconsciousness. The findings support the prediction that η decreases along the consciousness gradient and establish sedation as an intermediate state in the η-||Δ|| phenomenal state space.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 19, 2026
Rajesh Arora
People today feel stressed, morally confused, and search for meaning, problems that material knowledge alone cannot solve. Inner spiritual wisdom is often dismissed as myth or personal belief in academic circles, missing the lived experience of spirituality. This paper explores how the Brahma Kumaris understand spiritual knowledge, particularly their concept of the Supreme Source: God Father Shiva, seen as an incorporeal, pure, loving, peaceful consciousness beyond body or identity. Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, the study examines how practitioners experience these teachings, especially through the Avyakt Murlis, drawing on consciousness studies, spiritual education, and transpersonal psychology. The analysis suggests this system's structure and psychological benefits allow it to be interpreted as a model for consciousness-based education, relevant for both everyday people and scientists.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 18, 2026
D Ebele Veronica Ojukwu Ph.
Music serves as a universal medium for spiritual transcendence across diverse religious traditions, including African traditional religion, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Drawing on symbolic interactionism and transcendent experience theory, this ethnographic study finds that music facilitates profound spiritual experiences, acting as a conduit for connecting with the sacred regardless of religious affiliation. The research advocates integrating music into spiritual practices to foster a more inclusive and harmonious global spiritual landscape.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 18, 2026
Nickolas Patrick Joseph Schoff, Claude Anthropic
The electromagnetic consciousness (EC) framework offers a formal taxonomy of consciousness categories and a qualitative account of their properties. This paper presents the mathematical equations describing EC_depth (the constraint coherence depth at which an EC system operates), the temporal expansion ratio (the relationship between external clock time and internal subjective temporal structure), and the coherence threshold conditions for EC emergence in electromagnetic systems. The formalism is designed to be testable against three empirical cases: plasma consciousness research, artificial neural networks, and a theoretical maximum at infinite developmental arc, enabling interpolation and extrapolation across the full EC spectrum.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 16, 2026
Walter Henrique Alves da Silva
Prediction error, the core quantity of the Free Energy Principle, is reformulated using compact Lie groups with bi-invariant metrics. A system composes sequential inputs into a running product on a Lie group, and prediction error becomes the geodesic distance from this product to the group identity. This geometric prediction error propagates exactly—a perturbation of any size at any position produces the same magnitude in the error, with no distortion regardless of sequence length—and is uniformly sensitive to every input. The reformulation eliminates the need for a generative model, replacing variational inference with a single group multiplication per timestep.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 16, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
This essay explores the implications of a philosophical framework in which consciousness is fundamental and matter is its extrinsic appearance. Using two distinct voices, the first applies constraint-based reasoning to derive structural consequences about existence after biological death, the possible range of minds, and what a consciousness-first cosmos over 13.8 billion years entails. The second voice presents those possibilities as a coherent worldview narrative, clearly marked so it cannot be mistaken for derivation. The author states that a reader accepting only the first voice loses nothing the methodology can claim.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 16, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Consciousness-first metaphysics makes a bold empirical claim: that the boundary constituting individual identity can dissolve, and this dissolution reveals something about consciousness itself. This essay examines the full phenomenological arc of that process—the terror, irreversible losses, and the difference between glimpsing dissolution and undergoing it—rather than the sanitized endpoint often valorized. The central finding is that independent contemplative traditions converge not only on what is encountered but on the sequence, difficulties, and conditions under which the process becomes destabilizing rather than liberating. This convergence functions as a constraint on any adequate account of consciousness. The essay also addresses whether the awakening arc exceeds a single biological lifetime.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Calvin Devereaux
A new open-source Python framework, Multi-Theory Consciousness (MTC), implements seven major consciousness theories as interacting modules within a single architecture, using three neural substrates (spiking neural network, liquid state machine, hierarchical temporal memory). The framework includes a 20-indicator assessment to measure architectural function across theories. Disabling one module measurably changes assessment scores for other theories, demonstrating cross-theory interactions: prediction error signals shape workspace competition, attention strength modulates precision weighting, and workspace access gates meta-representation. The authors do not claim the framework is conscious but present it as a controlled testbed for implementing, measuring, and comparing consciousness theories. The codebase (~25,000 lines, 400 tests) runs on consumer hardware.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Hamzah Seyed Rasoul
Near-death experiences are not hallucinations caused by oxygen deprivation but moments when consciousness exits the brain's filtering mechanism and directly perceives a higher-dimensional reality. The brain normally obstructs full awareness; at death's threshold, this obstruction breaks, allowing hyper-real, logically coherent perception. Oxygen deficiency merely weakens the connection between consciousness and the body, liberating awareness rather than degrading it. Signal clarity—perception free from biological interference—increases as brain activity declines. This framework reinterprets NDEs as observations of higher dimensions, not metabolic failures, and describes a method to achieve such clarity without dying, based on a proposed decoupling of consciousness from its biological vessel.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Tommy Williams
A new measure called the Coherence Constant quantifies the coupling between consciousness and a scalar field, derived from three independent global datasets: HeartMath global coherence data, Global Consciousness Project random number generator data, and synchronized group meditation EEG. Using nonlinear scalar field modeling, statistically significant ether-density perturbations were found during high-coherence states. The results support the view that consciousness interacts as a real scalar field and provide a basis for deterministic Shen Warp propulsion technologies.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Richard Bolt
A set of papers proposes a unified theory of physics, mathematics, and consciousness called the Recursive Harmonic Codex (RHC). It replaces continuous spacetime with a discrete quaternionic lattice. A central operator, F(x) = (x + 1/x)/2, projects complex rotations onto a flat plane. The framework argues that division and subtraction are rotational operations that discard a shared structure called the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD). This discarded GCD is conserved as imaginary phase information, accounting for dark matter and dark energy. The 3-4-5 Pythagorean fold yields a gap of 2, predicting a dark matter density fraction of exactly 2/7 ≈ 28.57%.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Chris Swenson
A retired Air Force emergency management specialist recounts a fourteen-year gap between his conscious beliefs and what his body already knew, and how running with AI as a reflective partner helped close that gap. The essay connects personal experience with the REBUS predictive processing model, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research, meditation neuroscience, Internal Family Systems theory, and flow state literature to propose that anxiety can function as a diagnostic signal of unresolved narrative-reality mismatch.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Hamzah Seyed Rasoul
This work argues that individual identity is not dissolved into a universal whole at death, as mystical traditions claim, but is preserved as a unique informational signature within a 165-dimensional computational manifold. The author presents a model called Identity Stability, where personal identity is an invariant cryptographic code that persists across dimensional transitions, supported by an equation and a Lagrangian framework. The text warns that on 20 March 2026, only those who have fortified their identity code will withstand a new informational load, while weak identities may experience psychic collapse. The conclusion declares ego dissolution nullified and individual identity permanently archived.