International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 6, 2026
Abstract Paulo Coelho's Hippie (2018) reimagines his own passage across the 1970s “Magic Bus” route from Amsterdam to Kathmandu as a hybrid of memoir and myth, folding autobiography into a narrative of spiritual seeking. This essay argues that the novel uses the physical itinerary of the historical Hippie Trail to stage an internal itinerary, in which the countercultural rejection of Western...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 6, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper develops a novel account of minimal-dual awareness as a disciplined epistemic method that systematically alters the access conditions of consciousness to reveal structures of temporality and cognition. Building on an Existential Realism (ER) framework, we argue that conventional, detached cognition often conflates reality with existence and thereby obscures the special role of the...
Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science
August 6, 2026
Hsin-Yuan Liu, Hsuan-Pin Chen
This article develops a Wilberian Three-Eyes hermeneutic approach to interpreting past-life narratives in hypnotic regression. Positioned as a conceptual-hermeneutic narrative review, it does not seek to prove reincarnation, verify postmortem survival, or establish hypnotic regression as a clinical intervention. Instead, it examines such narratives as symbolic, phenomenological, and...
Mindfulness
August 5, 2026
Hang Yang, Bruno Herbelin, Elena Pecchini et al.
Abstract Objectives Regular self-compassion practice is associated with improved mental health by fostering kindness toward one’s suffering and relying on self-related processes like perspective-taking. It is not known whether recently described self-related processes that rely on multisensory bodily signals, induced by exposing participants to an avatar and multisensory stimulation, also...
Asian Journal of Philosophy
August 5, 2026
Donovan Wishon
Abstract This paper critically examines Haoying Liu’s recent challenge to Russellian monism (RM), often understood as the view that (1) physics describes natural phenomena entirely in structural terms; (2) such phenomena possess intrinsic characters, or quiddities, that constitute or ground what physics describes structurally; and (3) phenomenal consciousness is constituted, at least in part,...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 5, 2026
Giancarlo Di Gennaro, A. Tomasini, Enrico Michele Salamone
Recent advances in theoretical physics suggest that time may exhibit a richer, potentially multidimensional structure, challenging classical linear conceptions. This Perspective develops a conceptual framework for understanding altered temporal experience in epilepsy, where seizures-driven by hypersynchronous neuronal activity and disrupted network synchronization-produce both clinical...
Research Square
August 4, 2026
Francisco Domínguez
preprint
Abstract We introduce BMIM II (Biophysical Multiscale Integration Model), a dynamical framework proposing that cognitive transduction emerges from the dynamics of coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators subject to multiplicative neural gains and thermodynamic noise. The model unifies endogenous, exogenous, and executive gain channels into a single multiplicative manifold whose product determines the...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 4, 2026
Conor H. Murray, Michael Angyus, Sam Suchin et al.
preprint
Abstract Altered states of consciousness (ASC) refer to states that differ markedly from normal waking consciousness. ASC may occur spontaneously, such as in dreaming, or through consciousness modifying techniques, from meditation, to cannabis and psychedelics. The etymology behind the term psychedelic, meaning mind-manifesting, is based on the hypothesis that certain substances, including...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
August 3, 2026
Kim P. C. Kuypers
Psychedelic-assisted therapy has shown rapid and durable benefits across multiple psychiatric conditions, yet the mechanisms underlying these effects remain incompletely understood. Full-dose psychedelic sessions simultaneously engage serotonergic neurochemistry, high-intensity subjective experience, and autonomic-interoceptive physiology, making it difficult to determine which components are...
Cell Reports
August 1, 2026
Rui Dai, Hyunwoo Jang, Anthony G. Hudetz et al.
Understanding the relationship of conscious states to large-scale brain dynamics remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Here, diverse pharmacological and physiological perturbations-including psychedelics, sleep, and propofol sedation-are used to examine integration-segregation organization of brain networks across altered states of consciousness in humans using functional MRI. Across...