Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research
July 24, 2026
M. S. Ulanov
The article examines the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness through a comparative analysis with key trends in Western thought: Husserl’s phenomenology, analytical philosophy, and modern cognitive neuroscience. The work focuses on a comprehensive comparative analysis of the reception, transformation, and structural similarities between Buddhist philosophy and the Western intellectual...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Abstract: Psychological and contemplative configurations — the neuroses, the depressions, psychopathy, psychosis, dissociative identity, awakening — occupy a single structured space. This essay maps it. Under analytic idealism, an individual mind is a dissociated alter of mind-at-large, and the alter's boundary admits a formal description as a Markov blanket; the architectural claim developed...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 19, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Abstract: If consciousness is fundamental — as this project argues — then suffering cannot be treated as a contingent byproduct of blind evolutionary processes. Under analytic idealism, the capacity for suffering is woven into the fabric of what exists, creating the idealist's theodicy problem: why does consciousness, in individuating itself, generate modes of experience that include terror,...
BHĀBANAGARA International Journal of Bengal Studies
July 17, 2026
Keith Edward Cantú’s Like A Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga offers a significant reassessment of the history of modern yoga by recovering the life, writings, and transregional influence of the largely forgotten Tamil yogi Sri Sabhapati Swami (c. 1828–1923/24). This article examines Cantú’s reconstruction of Sabhapati’s spiritual career, multilingual publications,...
JMIR Research Protocols
July 17, 2026
Lillian Ofori Ward, Cate Bailey, Prai Wattanatakulchat et al.
In recent decades, millions of people globally have taken up Buddhist spiritual and secularized meditation practices, such as mindfulness, with the aim of improving their quality of life and well-being. Practitioners are recommended to continue meditating regularly for the long term; however, the effects of regular meditation practice after introductory instruction remain scientifically...
Journal of Contemplative Studies
July 16, 2026
Rae Dachille
While it may be tempting to assume that the preponderance of Buddhist metaphors for the deceptive nature of appearances suggests that our experiences of the phenomenal world should be dismissed, in many Buddhist traditions, understanding why things appear as they do is central to realizing how they truly are. In this article, I illuminate the unique manner in which one Tibetan author uses...
Religions
July 15, 2026
Xiao Lin
This article investigates the convergence of Chan and Pure Land practices in medieval Dunhuang, highlighting a fluid and integrative religious phenomenon that challenges conventional sectarian boundaries. Drawing on a rich corpus of manuscripts, including treatises, lecture notes, liturgical texts, and portrait praises, the study demonstrates how meditation-centered approaches, often associated...
Daarus Tsaqofah
July 15, 2026
Minhatin Afiyah, Moh Milladun Hakimin 'Alim, Abdullah Qohi
This study aims to analyze the implementation model of spiritual mindfulness in strengthening adolescent mental health within Islamic secondary schools. The research employs a qualitative approach with a multiple case study design conducted at two Islamic high schools in Gresik, Indonesia. Data were collected through participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and document analysis, and...
July 15, 2026
Dr.Vasantha Narender
The purpose of this study is to investigate the significant impact that Indian philosophy has had on contemporary thought, focusing on the ways in which it has impacted the spiritual, scientific, and socio-political landscapes around the world. Non-dualism (Advaita Vedanta), karma, ahimsa (non-violence), and dharma (duty/righteousness) are some of the Indian philosophical principles that have...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 15, 2026
Sudipta Pramanik
Abstract: One of India’s most lasting intellectual and spiritual traditions is yoga. Yoga, which has its roots in the Sanskritic tradition of ancient India, offers a comprehensive philosophy of life that goes beyond its modern understanding as a discipline of physical practice. The goal of yoga is to harmonise the body, mind, and awareness. It is derived from the Sanskrit linguistic root yuj,...
July 14, 2026
Emmanuel Gabellieri, Simone Kotva
Abstract Simone Weil stands squarely within the apophatic tradition, but she also occupies an original position within it, having developed many themes in the wake of a mystical experience at the age of 29. One such theme, which originated in her meditation on Christ’s kenosis (Ph. 2:7) and how we can imitate it, is that of “decreation” (décréation). Another is attention (l’attention), which...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Osain: Orisha of Herbalism — Sacred Botany, Healing, and Ecological Intelligence in Yorùbá Theology Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University Abstract: This academic paper presents a rigorous scholarly study of Osain, the Orisha of herbs, forest medicine, and ecological...
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper offers a comprehensive, initiated insider reinterpretation of Patañjali's eightfold system (aṣṭāṅga) through a Dravidian-Tamil Siddha lens, placing the Yoga Sutras in conversation with South...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
KRIYA Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents an authoritative, initiated-insider account of the methods, lineage history, and embodied practices synthesized in the book KRIYA (Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Swamikal, & Shumake, 2026). Writing from a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
BREATHE, B*TCH Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents a scholarly examination of the book BREATHE, B*TCH (Shumake, Oluwo, Ajarn, & Swamikal, 2026) through the combined lenses of initiated insider scholarship and textual-historical analysis. The lead...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Shurooms Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents an initiated, cross-initiatory inquiry into entheogens and spiritual awakening as articulated in the co-authored volume Shurooms (Shumake et al., 2024). Combining emic autoethnography from initiated...
Metaphor and the Social World
July 14, 2026
Peter Richardson, Charles M. Mueller
Abstract This paper examines how contemporary Christian contemplative discourse integrates two apparently opposed construals of religious experience: relational intimacy with a divine entity and non-conceptual states of pure awareness. We argue that relational intimacy is conceptualized through warmth, connection, spatial proximity, shared will, and resonance, underpinned by a linked goal...
Open MIND
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Shiva Mind Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents the central arguments and scholarly context of Shiva Mind, a collaborative monograph that advances a theology and phenomenology of "Shiva consciousness" as cosmic mind, situated within Dravidian...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Jamison Johnson
Directions is a standalone lyric-philosophical prose meditation on conscious thought in time. Beginning from the question of what a mind thinks of itself once it accepts the insignificance of the body it is attached to, the essay moves through a five-stage contemplative exercise — Comfort, Darkness, Life, Descent, Arrival — drawing on Transcendental Meditation, the Silva method, and Sanskrit...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
Thai Theravada Buddhism Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper presents a synthesis and scholarly appraisal of the co-authored book Thai Theravada Buddhism (Shumake et al., 2026), foregrounding the forest tradition, meditation methodology, and the lived...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Shumake, Robert S. (ajarn Shaman Shu | Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Phd | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal)
Shurooms: The First Ethnomycological Study from Within the African Initiatory Tradition — Ewe, Soma, and the Ceremonial Architecture of Psilocybin Healing (N = 300+) This flagship paper presents the first ethnomycological study of psilocybin ceremony authored from within the African initiatory tradition — not by an outside observer, clinical researcher, or journalist, but by an initiated...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Divine Pymander Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This paper offers a sustained scholarly analysis of The Divine Pymander (Shumake, Osainbola, Ajarn, & Swamikal, 2026), an interpretive translation and commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum that foregrounds the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Gita of the Awakened Self Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents the core arguments and interpretive architecture of The Gita of the Awakened Self, a cross-initiatory re-reading of the Bhagavad Gita that engages Advaita Vedanta, Tamil–Dravidian...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 13, 2026
TOEI (Dependent Origination Computational Cosmology) is a meta-ontological framework that asks not what being is but how being is possible. It proposes that being is constituted not by substance but by the unfolding of relation, through the structure T→ε→O→I: T is the field of primordial possibility, which obtains rather than exists; ε is the principle constitutive of T's obtaining, making...