Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2026
Oliva Fmoo
preprint
Short Description An exploration of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as perceptual thresholds between sleep and wakefulness. The text proposes sustained presence at the threshold as a method for investigating experiences that may otherwise remain unseen and unconceived. Abstract This work investigates the phenomenology of hypnagogic and hypnopompic states as potential thresholds for exploring...
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology
October 10, 2026
Mohammad Ebrahimi
The prevailing neurological orthodoxy equates the mind with neuronal activation. While empirically grounded, this reductionist paradigm fails to account for subjective experience, altered states of consciousness, and the profound influence of the body on cognition. This opinion challenges the neurocentric assumption and proposes a radical redefinition: The mind is an emergent, dynamic,...
Psychopathology
October 9, 2026
Giovanni Stanghellini, Giorgia Cuffaro
Phenomenological research has long provided a foundation for understanding the schizophrenic condition as a whole, yet its contribution to borderline personality disorder (BPD) remains comparatively scattered across different lines of inquiry. Existing phenomenological studies on BPD typically focus on fragmented lived temporality, dysphoric mood, emotion dysregulation and anomalies of lived...
JME Practical Bioethics
October 9, 2026
Katherine Cheung, Edward Jacobs, David B. Yaden
Psychedelics—psychoactive substances that have characteristic effects on perception, cognition and mood—are attracting renewed clinical and policy attention for their potential to treat a range of conditions. Various ethical tensions are present in psychedelic clinical trials due to several characteristics of psychedelics and the psychedelic experience, including acute alterations of...
Quest Journal of Management and Social Sciences
October 7, 2026
Udaya Raj Paudel
Background: Romantic literary scholarship has increasingly examined the relationship between Romantic imagination and British imperial expansion, yet the material role of colonial commodities in shaping metropolitan consciousness remains comparatively underexplored. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater provides a significant site for examining this relationship because its...
Open Access at Essex
October 7, 2026
Rohan J Naidoo
This research addresses the central complex of how the relationship between the sacred and sexual is problematised and plays out over the course of individuation. Jung articulated it as core to his relationship with Freud breaking down, describing a split between the secular (which becomes sexualised) and the spiritual (which becomes desexualised). Such a division can be understood, via a...
Current Sexual Health Reports
October 7, 2026
Suzanne Mulvehill
Abstract Purpose of Review Female orgasmic disorder/difficulty (FOD) remains prevalent, yet treatments are limited and outcomes variable. Traditional approaches have focused primarily on stimulation, behavioral techniques, sex therapy, and psychological processes, without fully accounting for state-dependent and non-genital pathways through which orgasm may become accessible. These pathways may...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 7, 2026
Jeong-jae Lee
preprint
Where Do We Go When We Fall Asleep? — On the Boundaries of Reality Shaped by the Five Senses is a philosophical and speculative essay that reconsiders the conventional distinction between dreams and reality. The essay begins with a simple question: Why do we regard only the world experienced while awake as reality? It proposes that the five senses may function not only as windows onto reality,...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
October 6, 2026
Robert A. King
The out-of-body experience (OBE) is a state of altered consciousness in which one has the impression of being consciously outside of the physical body either somewhere on Earth (often, but not always, in the vicinity of the physical body) or in some transcendental location (having ventured into some otherworldly place distinct from the Earth). Some OBEs are known to occur in association with a...
Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
October 6, 2026
Rebecka Malm
Ego dissolution (ED; a temporary disruption of self-boundaries and personal identity) is a central feature of many altered states of consciousness. With the resurgence of psychedelic research, these experiences have become of growing clinical relevance, as they can evoke both profound therapeutic transformation and significant psychological destabilization. This conceptual paper reviews the...