Abstract: Stroboscopic light stimulation (SLS) on closed eyes typically induces simple visual hallucinations, characterized by vivid, geometric, and colourful patterns. A dataset of 898 sentences, extracted from 407 open subjective reports, was recently compiled as part of the Dreamachine programme (https://dreamachine.world/) (Collective Act, 2022), an immersive multisensory experience that...
La neurofenomenología se ha consolidado como un programa interdisciplinario de investigación, orientado a integrar la experiencia vivida en primera persona con hallazgos de estudios empíricos de la actividad del sistema nervioso. Objetivo: analizar la evidencia empírica reciente en neurofenomenología, identificando las principales líneas de investigación, las metodologías empleadas y las...
This paper introduces the Perspective Shift Technique (PST; 人格移動, jinkaku ido), a clinical method developed by the present author, in which a client experientially inhabits another person's perspective from the inside within a hypnotherapeutic context, while simultaneously maintaining a self-observing position. This dual structure facilitates the experiential destabilization and reconsolidation...
So far, intersectionality has been viewed predominantly in a rather unidirectional way – mainly in the context of vulnerability and discrimination. In recent years, however, there has also been increasing discussion that the interplay of characteristics encompassed within the definition of intersectionality may likewise give rise to certain unique modes of coping. In this article, I experiment...
Brain and BehaviorApril 1, 2026Livio Tarchi, Lorenzo Lasagni, Leonardo Ubaldi et al.
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder marked by specific cognitive and clinical disturbances, for which neuroimaging biomarkers remain elusive. Novel theoretical and computational frameworks, such as integrated information decomposition, offer promising approaches to provide interpretable biomarkers for neuroimaging alterations in schizophrenia, potentially capturing disruptions...
Contemporary phenomenological psychopathology has raised questions concerning selfhood and its possible alterations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Although the notion of the self is central to several accounts of anomalies, it remains a question how exactly the radically minimal experiential features of selfhood can be altered. Indeed, the risk is to reduce the notion of selfhood so...
This paper develops a quadripartite panpsychist theory of shamanism(s). This fourpart framework revives and combines four theories: (i) mystical constructivism, (ii) role-taking theory, and (iii) mental imagery cultivation as a cultural practice founded upon (iv) a panpsychist philosophy of ultimate reality. I argue that this quadripartite model allows for the recognition of something ‘real’ in...
Near death experience (NDE) reported as supernatural and emotional feelings with episodes involving a special state of consciousness, including several special elements and these experiences typically occur with often grouped contents commonly observed in life-threatening conditions. Participants were provided with an Arabic version of the Near-Death Experience (NDE) scale via mail and social...
Dreams have long served as a bridge between human cognition and the sacred, offering spaces where the boundaries of self, culture, and spirituality are renegotiated. Across history, they have been regarded not only as private experiences but also as vehicles of prophecy, divine affirmation, and symbolic meaning that shape religious worldviews. Whether in theistic traditions, where dreams have...
Abstract 2025 sees the thirtieth anniversary of Revd Auntie Lenore Parker’s ‘God of Holy Dreaming’ being included in the Anglican Prayer Book for Australia. In this article, she explores and describes the dreaming process which birthed this prayer. The analysis which follows compares the value of dreams in aboriginal culture with the privileged place given to dreams and visions as altered...