Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Βασίλειος Μελετιάδης
preprint
Chaos Magic is a new religious movement whose development is primarily connected to the city of Leeds, UK in the late 1970s. It was the brainchild of two unknown at the time occultists, Ray Sherwin and Peter Carroll, who, being inspired by an array of figures and movements that included Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Robert Anton Wilson and the new religious movement Discordianism, went...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Thomas Blottenberger
preprint
Some of the most familiar stories in a human life look, up close, like separate problems: the raise you were sure would finally feel like enough, which a few weeks in has quietly become the number you now have to beat; the hours spent going back over your childhood trying to locate the thing that explains why you are the way you are; the one sharp moment with your kid that lands as a verdict on...
medRxiv
October 5, 2026
Praachi Tiwari, Sandeep M. Nayak, Nathan D. Sepeda et al.
preprint
Importance: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has a 2% global prevalence, but only about 50% of patients respond to conventional treatment, underscoring the need for additional effective interventions. Objective: To assess the feasibility, safety, and preliminary evidence for efficacy of repeated psilocybin administration in OCD patients who had previously attempted psychotherapy or...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
October 5, 2026
Shannon Dames
Abstract: Background and aims: In Western clinical contexts, dissociation is a common transdiagnostic response to overwhelm and is highly relevant to integration capacity. In psychedelic-assisted therapy (PaT), non-ordinary states may open access to emotionally intense material while also activating protective distance when the experience outpaces coping capacity. This article introduces a...
Hypnose-ZHH
October 4, 2026
Hans-Jochen Müller
Psychotherapie mit bewusstseinserweiternden Substanzen -: Zwischen klini schem Durchbruch und ethischer Verantwortung Die zunehmenden Berichte potenzieller Heilwirkungen von Psychedelika in Forschung und Medien wecken gleichermaßen Hoffnungen und Befürchtungen. Während Patient:innen Optimismus verspüren oder gar wundersame Heilungen ohne eigenes Zutun erwarten, verharren Kliniker mehrheitlich...
PsyArXiv
October 3, 2026
Rebekah Senānāyaka
preprint
Ninety percent of human societies practise institutionalised alterations of consciousness. Across independent traditions, communities that develop governed protocols for sustained engagement with non-human organisms produce practitioners whose hybrid consciousness becomes the basis of social authority. Drawing on 27 months of apprenticeship-based fieldwork in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 3, 2026
Roberto García Sánchez
preprint
Consciousness is increasingly linked to large-scale neural dynamics characterized by integration, differentiation, recurrence and criticality. However, the cellular bioenergetic mechanisms that constrain these dynamics remain underexplored. In this review, we propose a neurometabolic criticality framework in which mitochondrial function acts as a regulatory interface between cellular metabolism...
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
October 3, 2026
Boris A. Lanin
Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Telluria (2013) off ers a complex exploration of memory and its manipulation within a post-apocalyptic Eurasian landscape, employing a fragmented narrative structure inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s concept of the “montage of attractions.” This study analyzes the mechanisms of memory and forgetting, the function of “attractions” as disruptive narrative devices, and the...
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
October 1, 2026
Andrea Serino
The space surrounding the body where physical interactions with external stimuli occur is referred to as peripersonal space (PPS). Traditionally conceived as a spatial construct, PPS is better understood as a neural representation that integrates bodily inputs with external cues to predict body-object interactions. After summarizing its multisensory, motor, and plastic properties, this review...
Applied sciences research periodicals.
October 1, 2026
Dejan Rakovic
Tesla's visions and inventions realized in his controlled altered states of consciousness contributed to his legendary aura as the greatest inventor in the history of electrical engineering at the end of 19th century, and what makes him fascinating is his unusual mental control of his creative visions, with significant quantum-holographic transpersonal creative–educational implications...