International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
October 11, 2026
Jaya Yadav Jaya Raj, Vijay C. Mishra
This study explores the link between women, goddess-centered spirituality, and the social and psychological elements of possession-like religious experiences via field visits to Varanasi. The study focuses on how women's religious expression is influenced by cultural norms, gender inequity, social marginalization, and emotional discomfort. The study investigates how women interact with...
Brain Sciences
October 9, 2026
Maria Svet, Arosh S. Perera Molligoda Arachchige
Adversarial testing has strengthened the empirical standards of consciousness science, but recent results also expose a measurement problem: competing theories frequently make predictions about the same neural quantities and can therefore be challenged without being decisively discriminated. This evaluative review incorporates a purposive structured audit of contemporary theories and...
ACS Omega
October 9, 2026
Evangelos Dadiotis, Romanos Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Antigoni Cheilari et al.
Abstract The genus Psilocybe (Basidiomycota) comprises over 300 mushroom-forming species, many of which produce the secondary metabolite psilocybin, a prodrug of its dephosphorylated active metabolite psilocin. Psilocybin has recently attracted significant interest, with numerous active, recruiting, and completed clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, primarily investigating its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 9, 2026
Steve Novas
preprint
The evolutionary and biological distribution of consciousness remains unsettled partly because candidate theories disagree about the minimum organization sufficient for phenomenal subjectivity. Basal Cognita proposes a candidate threshold-and-individuation framework: an organizationally self-maintaining system satisfies the proposed architecture when at least two independently causal,...
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
October 9, 2026
Justin Echternach
We synthesize convergent experimental evidence from five independent research groups (2016–2025) addressing the longstanding “too warm, too wet” objection to quantum biology. Three recent experiments (2024–2025) demonstrate: (i) Wang et al. measured enhanced dielectric response and proton conductivity in nanoconfined water at 295 K, establishing extreme in-plane Coulomb screening at 1–2 nm;...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2026
Susan Cameron
Psychedelics have re-emerged in this century as a popular substance to use by people of different ages and socio-economic status. The reasons for use vary between recreational and treatment focused. The Controlled Substance Act of 1970, signed by then President Richard Nixon, created a ban on the use of these substances in the United States, but advocates have found reason to revisit the...
'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
October 8, 2026
Álvaro Trigo Maldonado
This article analyzes the intersection between Buddhism and artificial intelligence through a reading of Redimeidu bosang (2004) by Park Seonghwan, a Korean science fiction story in which a robot attains enlightenment in a Buddhist temple. Beyond understanding technology as a tool within religious practice, the study explores how speculative fiction reconfigures the conceptual boundaries...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
October 8, 2026
Christopher Krupa
Bogotá Dreaming immerses readers in the feral dreamworlds of the discarded foot soldiers of Colombia's armed conflict and narco-economy as they try to survive through cycles of addiction and institutionalized recovery in Bogotá’s underworlds. The article is set in 2016–2017 but, like the dreams themselves, time in Romero's article is an elusive anchor, always present but not always in ways we...
Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
October 8, 2026
Wiesław Jerzy Cubała
Introduction Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a chronic, disabling condition for which currently available pharmacotherapies have delayed onset, incomplete remission rates, treatment-emergent adverse effects and substantial real-world discontinuation. DT120, formerly MM120, is an investigational orally disintegrating tablet formulation of lysergide tartrate being developed as a single-dose...
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
October 8, 2026
Gianluca A. Florineth, Anna L. Boeker, Felix Müller et al.
Background Classic psychedelics show potential for treating psychiatric disorders, yet the psychological framework of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) remains underspecified. As regulatory approval approaches, defining the contribution of psychological interventions to clinical outcomes is critical for both mechanism inference and implementation. Objectives To systematically review the...