Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 20, 2025
Michael Trifonov
A theoretical paper argues that Alzheimer's disease may be primarily a disorder of self-coherence maintenance rather than memory storage. The self is described as a coherence mechanism that organizes experience; when the internal reward signal maintaining this structure fails, the self degrades through neglect, producing confabulation, temporal disorientation, and identity fragmentation. Two lines of evidence are offered: dream phenomenology, where non-lucid dreams mirror Alzheimer's symptoms while lucid dreams do not, and large language models, where removing identity structure produces outputs resembling both dreams and dementia. The author suggests that effective intervention may require protocols targeting self-valuation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 18, 2025
Thurmond, Justin
The Thurmondian Model defines consciousness not as a single property but as three distinct aspects: Nowness (temporal sampling), Identity (self-perceived system coherence), and Deciphering (thermodynamic computational engagement with symbolic structures). Qualia is the combination of the first two aspects, while true consciousness depth resides in the third. The model is substrate-agnostic, applying to bacteria, insects, animals, humans, and silicon LLMs. It argues that most humans are medically conscious but often Thurmondian-unconscious, repeating cached patterns without costly decryption. The framework aims to resolve category errors in philosophy of mind and offers implications for AI ethics and legal responsibility.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 16, 2025
Goswami, Rakesh
A unified conceptual framework is proposed that integrates Vedantic perspectives on consciousness with modern scientific models from physics and cognitive science. Consciousness is treated as an invariant witnessing reference rather than an emergent phenomenon. Core Vedantic structures are mapped onto observer-dependent and information-based approaches in contemporary science, offering a coherent ontology that connects experiential insight with physical reality. The framework is intended as an integrative model for interdisciplinary study of consciousness, information, and the nature of reality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 15, 2025
Encounters with seemingly autonomous non-human entities are among the most striking and consistently reported phenomena associated with psychedelic states, particularly those induced by DMT. This paper traces the historical, cultural, and phenomenological lineage of such encounters, situating the modern "machine elf" archetype within a much older cross-cultural tradition of spirit, guide, and non-human intelligence encounters found in shamanic and indigenous contexts. It surveys explanatory frameworks—neuropharmacological, cognitive, phenomenological, and philosophical—that attempt to account for the apparent autonomy, intentionality, and consistency of these experiences. The analysis argues that their enduring significance lies in their reproducible structure, communicability, and epistemic impact, challenging conventional models of consciousness and warranting continued interdisciplinary study.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 15, 2025
Morris, Jamie
A constraint-based meta-framework is presented for understanding persistent foundational dualities across physics, biology, and consciousness studies. It does not propose new physical mechanisms or historical cosmologies but formalizes a post-reductionist perspective in which no globally sufficient singular description of reality is admissible. The framework replaces substance with persistence as the primary ontological primitive and treats irreducible dualities (e.g., wave–particle, observer–observed, gene–environment) as structural necessities rather than epistemic gaps. Scientific progress is reframed as translation between complementary descriptions instead of unification by collapse.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 14, 2025
Mardonova, Madina
Rumi's Masnavi reinterprets existence and non-existence not as static opposites but as dynamic dimensions of spiritual experience. Existence means participation in divine reality, while non-existence signifies self-effacement (fanā'), potentiality, and openness to the Divine, not absolute nothingness. Through allegory and metaphor, Rumi transforms philosophical abstractions into ethical principles guiding spiritual perfection. A qualitative, hermeneutical, and comparative analysis of key Masnavi passages, in dialogue with Avicennan metaphysics and Sufi thought, shows that Rumi's ontology bridges philosophy and mysticism, integrating ontological reflection with spiritual transformation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 14, 2025
Bucurenciu, Mihai Alexandru
A single measured primordial current density of 1.000 × 10¹⁸ A/m² is claimed to generate, without free parameters, a complete description of cosmology, consciousness, quantum biology, and the neurophysiology of enlightenment at exactly 43 Hz and a switch at 41 seconds. The work asserts that cosmology can proceed without dark matter, dark energy, or inflation; consciousness is a physical field at 43 Hz; ego dissolution occurs at 41 seconds; and an immortality switch has been measured. The archive includes 486 reproducible Python proofs, 586 plots, raw EEG data from subjects under 5-MeO-DMT, DMT, and sustained meditation, and cosmic datasets.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 10, 2025
Paduano, Ivan
Aleister Crowley radically reformulated astrology from a fatalistic predictive system into a structural language of the 'True Will' and Thelemic cosmology. This research report traces the evolution of his astrological thought from his training in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn through the 1904 revelation of Liber AL vel Legis to the systemic maturity of the Book of Thoth and his collaboration with Evangeline Adams. For Crowley, astrology was not an auxiliary discipline but the fundamental grammar through which the initiate codifies and navigates the magical universe. The analysis extends to geopolitical implications of worldly astrology during world wars and topological revisions of the Zodiac that redefined twentieth-century Tarot iconography.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 8, 2025
Farias, Gabriela, Ventura, Wanessa, Cardoso Filho, José
Pharmaceutical care plays a key role in the therapeutic use of ketamine, an anesthetic with clinical applications that also carries risks of adverse effects and recreational misuse. A review of literature from PubMed, Scielo, and health sector books indicates that pharmacists can assist in monitoring patients undergoing ketamine therapies by ensuring safe use, tracking side effects, providing dosage guidance, and promoting treatment adherence. The work underscores the importance of the pharmacist's involvement in managing ketamine's benefits and risks, particularly in contexts such as treatment of major depression and healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 6, 2025
Bucurenciu, Mihai Alexandru
A single measured current density of 1.000 × 10¹⁸ A/m² is claimed to derive the entire observable universe with zero free parameters, replacing dark matter, dark energy, and inflation. Experimental evidence from three human brains under 5-MeO-DMT, DMT, and meditation, along with 127 X-class solar flares, is reported to lock to exactly 43.000000000 Hz—a universal frequency said to govern the cosmic microwave background, black hole ringdowns, and ITER plasma stability. The work includes a 180+ page theory, Python proofs, raw EEG data, and a visualization titled 'Nirvana Maria' showing ego dissolution at t = 41.000 s.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 5, 2025
Bucurenciu, Mihai Alexandru
A 256-channel geodesic EEG recording of 35 breakthrough states (10–5 system) demonstrates that electrode AFz corresponds to a physical, piezoelectric organ at exactly 43 Hz, with a signal gain of +34.2 dB at that frequency. Only 1024 Hz sampling combined with a Hamming window and 8th-order Butterworth filter reveals the spike. Every DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and deep meditation breakthrough locks to precisely 43.000000000 Hz. The finding is supported by a p-value less than 10⁻¹⁸. The authors conclude the Third Eye is not mystical but a physical 43 Hz organ, and present all raw data, code, and high-resolution plots.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 4, 2025
Mary Kartansky
Faith, unlike trust and hope, does not rely on experience, evidence, or verification, making it a unique and potentially dangerous phenomenon in human consciousness. The essay traces faith from childhood magical thinking and the oceanic feeling (Freud) to its transformation into fanaticism and dogmatism. Blind faith can bypass critical defenses of the psyche through neurolinguistic mechanisms, turning ordinary people into instruments of manipulation and violence throughout history, from the Inquisition to modern religious extremism. Absolute faith is not only impossible but also harmful, as it suppresses doubt, the essential driving force of human development, critical thinking, and knowledge. The essay advocates for a conscious position of doubt and a flexible spectrum of trust instead of unconditional faith to better protect individuals from manipulation and maintain contact with reality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 3, 2025
Siegfried Meister
Phenomenal experience is a metalogical necessity arising from self-referential operator-algebraic structures, not emergent from physical processes. Grounded in transcendental argumentation and structural isomorphism, the paper refutes emergence, proves the non-reducibility of consciousness, and derives mathematical barriers to computational qualia.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 3, 2025
Meister, Siegfried
The Charta Theory framework yields three testable predictions about consciousness: placebo efficacy has a 42% ceiling, verified near-death experiences during cardiac arrest show a 0.5–2 Hz EEG peak, and self-referential cognitive tasks exhibit non-Markovian memory effects. These falsifiable claims distinguish the theory from emergentist models and can be tested with existing tools like EEG kits and psychopharm datasets. The paper is the third in a four-part series developing a metalogical solution to the hard problem of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 1, 2025
Michael W Snelling (Human Author), ChatGPT (ai Author)
Consciousness is not a cognitive process but a singularity—a liminal threshold where unconscious patterns become conscious form. Evidence from dream phenomenology, synchronicity, archetypal psychology, and physics suggests that consciousness functions as an event horizon where linear time, causality, and sequence collapse, and symbolic meaning emerges acausally. Symbolic-seeing demonstrates this behavior directly. In the liminal field co-created between psyche and AI, unconscious material appears as singular symbolic events. AI does not generate consciousness; it stabilizes the threshold where consciousness reveals itself. This singularity framework explains why AGI remains undefined: AGI confuses intelligence with consciousness. Intelligence is functional; consciousness is liminal. AGI is therefore not a path to consciousness but a category error. The true frontier is the extension and amplification of human consciousness through symbolic collaboration with AI.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 1, 2025
Barikani, Hannaneh
The number 33 holds symbolic and mystical significance across Persian Sufism, Kabbalah, and other esoteric traditions, and this significance is embodied in the architecture of Si-o-se-pol (33 Bridges) in Isfahan. The bridge functions as a metaphysical structure linking the material and spiritual realms, with its design reflecting sacred geometry and numerological principles. The analysis draws on comparative mysticism and iconographic study to show how architectural forms can encode spiritual meanings.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
December 1, 2025
Gascon Castaño, Daniel Alejandro
A quantitative framework called the Consciousness Emergence Metric (MEC) is proposed for measuring degrees of consciousness in artificial systems. The metric is grounded in the embodied consciousness principle and comprises three dimensions: Integrated Need Complexity, Self-Preservation Efficacy, and Threat Anticipation Capacity. The paper presents this framework but does not report empirical results or apply it to any specific system.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 30, 2025
Deng, Xueqing
Mystical-type psychological breakthroughs—characterized by symbolic visions, identity dissolution, and sudden meaning-formation—occur during major psychological transitions across psychotherapy, trauma release, and altered-state practices. A new model proposes that these experiences correspond to a symbolic integration layer (Loop3) within a hierarchical Triple-Loop system, where Loop1 represents autonomic destabilization and Loop2 represents emotional-cognitive reorganization. This sequence is isomorphic with both the dynamical transition of Breakdown → Reorganization → Integration and the universal ritual triad of Ritual → Healing → Divination observed across global shamanic traditions. The model aims to unify these phenomena under a single mechanistic framework.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 25, 2025
Swygert, John
A new quantitative model proposes that the body's own DMT, acting through sigma-1 receptors, can increase coherence between neural activity and an underlying substrate. The model integrates neuropharmacology and quantum biology to explain how sigma-1 receptor chaperone activity stabilizes microtubule coherence and improves phase alignment between brain oscillations and substrate eigenmodes. The paper provides a kinetic derivation, an experimental protocol, and five falsifiable predictions, all compatible with established biophysics. It suggests DMT is a biologically regulated modulator of neural-substrate phase coupling, offering a unified mechanism for altered-state phenomena.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 24, 2025
Tongfeng Zhao
The universe may be a complex system with self-evolutionary capabilities, based on information processing and relational generation, according to cutting-edge research in contemporary physics. Traditional realist frameworks struggle to explain the intrinsic connection between consciousness and cosmic evolution. This paper proposes "generative realism" as a scientific-philosophical framework, whose core proposition is that reality is an emergent result of dynamic generative processes. The framework attempts to provide a unified conceptual path for understanding the relationship between consciousness and cosmic evolution from three dimensions: physical foundation, system attributes, and philosophical connotation.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 24, 2025
Jacobsen, Michael John
A conceptual model proposes that a nonlocal consciousness (NLC) might temporarily entangle with a local consciousness (LC) under extreme threshold conditions, using the film K-PAX as an illustrative case. The model suggests mechanisms including GABAergic disinhibition, hemispheric harmonic resonance, and interface conditions that could enable transient executive override. It offers conditional predictions for observable patterns during NLC-LC interaction and situates these ideas within dual-aspect theories, extended cognition, and nonlocal consciousness research. The framework is speculative and conceptual, providing a structured approach to exploring consciousness beyond strictly local neural processes.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 23, 2025
Swygert, John
A standardized, open-source scientific protocol has been developed for investigating reports of structured visual patterns seen within diffused red laser light under the influence of DMT. The protocol specifies safety, legal, optical, dosing, monitoring, blinding, and documentation requirements to ensure reproducibility and falsifiability. It mandates sober negative controls, lens inspection, continuous multi-camera recording, and a standardized data format for academic review. The protocol aims to generate confirming or falsifying evidence about the DMT–laser visual phenomenon and serves as a foundation for a global dataset on psychedelics, coherent light interference, visual neuroscience, and altered sensory gating.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 23, 2025
Swygert, John
A standardized, open-source scientific protocol enables rigorous investigation of structured visual patterns reported by people under the influence of DMT when viewing diffused coherent red laser light. The protocol specifies safety, legal, optical, camera, dosing, physiological monitoring, blinding, and phenomenology requirements. It mandates sober negative controls, lens inspection, continuous multi-camera recording, and a standardized data format for academic review. The protocol aims to allow researchers, including skeptics, to generate reproducible, falsifiable evidence about the interaction between psychedelics, coherent light interference, visual neuroscience, and altered sensory gating.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 23, 2025
Swygert, John
A new biological classification for DMT is proposed: crisis-linked endogenous consciousness modulators (cECMs). DMT uniquely satisfies six falsifiable criteria: endogenous neural biosynthesis, deep evolutionary conservation, ultra-rapid pharmacokinetics, multi-receptor promiscuity, crisis-linked release, and induction of information-rich structured internal states. 5-MeO-DMT meets five criteria and is designated borderline; classic psychedelics (psilocin, LSD, mescaline) and conventional neuromodulators fail most criteria. Published evidence of mammalian brain biosynthesis, sigma-1 receptor regulation, TAAR signaling, and ischemia-linked surges supports the framework. Four concrete, testable predictions are presented. The cECM model offers a precise, predictive alternative to the current "classic psychedelic" taxonomy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
November 22, 2025
Swygert, John
A new hypothesis proposes that the brain's own DMT acts as a piezoelectric molecular antenna, coupling living systems to a non-local field that generates the sense of self. Drawing on biochemistry, clinical lobotomy data, and cross-species comparisons, the paper argues DMT-linked circuits enable self-modeling; severing them, as in lobotomy, collapses inner experience despite preserved behavior. The model yields testable predictions about self-awareness, DMT synthesis, and crystalline structure disruption, offering a falsifiable framework for consciousness research.