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Ottomans and the Supernatural December 4, 2025 Marinos Sariyannis
Abstract Turning to the practical aspect of occultism, this chapter deals with the various forms of occult sciences as practised in Ottoman society. Views and information on the various sorts of magic, astrology, geomancy, dream interpretation, alphanumerical divination, and alchemy are examined, stressing the methods used. The chapter also seeks to find out whatever information is available on...
Zygon December 3, 2025
Abstract. Established religions integrate a society's everyday secular realities with humankind's numinous experience of the holy. Powerful emotions nourish the cultural expression of the archetypes propelling the “ritual dances” of art, sport, and technocracy. During sacred moments such as mother‐infant or adult bonding, neuroendocrine triggers activate lifelong ties. The cultural canon of the...
Rigvedic Himalaya December 2, 2025 Satish Tallapaka
According to ancient principles of Sanatana(eternal) dharma, the four Purusharthas include Dharma (righteous), Artha(just means for acquiring wealth), Kama (fulfilling basic desires and needs of human life), and Moksha i.e enlightenment, be one with the Paramatma. The ultimate goal for human birth is described as Moksha or being one with Paramatma in Adi Shankaracharya's VivekaChudamani. One...
Approaching Religion December 2, 2025 Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen, Terhi Utriainen, Alexandra Bergholm
This article explores esoteric potentiality—the perceived possibility of accessing the otherworldly—through a hermeneutic framework that integrates artist intent, the photographic image and audience reception. The Finnish artist Hanne Kiiveri shot her first angel-themed photograph after a waking dream involving her late sister. As part of the Whose Angels? project—an initiative that combines...
Religious Studies Review December 1, 2025 Andrej Kapcár
McCullough is an assistant professor of practical theology and spiritual care at the University of Toronto. He offers a detailed and engaging study that connects early modern mysticism with the foundations of modern psychotherapy. By positioning the seventeenth-century German philosopher and Christian mystic, Jacob Boehme (1575–1624) within a longer intellectual lineage reaching back to Saint...
Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca December 1, 2025 David Bartha
Andrew Baxter is a generally overlooked philosopher of the first half of the eighteenth century, known almost exclusively for his critique of Berkeleyan idealism. In this paper, I show that he was much more than just a critic of his immediate predecessors, by setting out his undeservedly ignored theory of dreaming and demonstrating its depth, originality as well as its potential to challenge...
December 1, 2025 Hassan Ugail, Newton Howard
Quantifying the neural signatures of consciousness remains a major challenge in neuroscience and AI. Although many theories link consciousness to rich, multiscale, and flexible neural organisation, robust quantitative measures are still lacking. This paper presents a theory-neutral framework that characterises consciousness-related dynamics through three properties: hierarchical integration...
The Korean Association for Mongolian Studies November 30, 2025 Davaadorj Ishdorj Davaadorj Ishdorj, Nandinbilig Ganbaatar Nandinbilig Ganbaatar
In this article, the dream motifs related to Chinggis Khaan in the Mongols ancient literature are analyzed and interpreted in connection with oral tradition, focusing on their functions, characters, and descriptions. The dream motifs found in The Legend of Mother Alan Goo, The Dream of Dei Sesten, The Legend of Defeating the Three Hundred Taichuud, and The Novella of Chinggis’s Two White-Grey...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying November 26, 2025 Sherilyn L. Herron, Pamela Aselton, Raeann LeBlanc
This article presents findings from a qualitative phenomenological study exploring the lived experience of nurses who have witnessed end-of-life dreams and visions (ELDVs) of dying patients. Using Seidman's Three-Interview Series, conducted asynchronously via email, eight nurses from Western Massachusetts contributed six comprehensive and two partial experiential accounts. The study revealed...
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing November 21, 2025 Yifan Zhao, Bowen Liu, Zhi-Peng Jia et al.
Our dreams are so fleeting that every time we try to recall them, we reinterpret them anew. To explore how human psyche can iterative reconstruct dreams to re-imagine dream content in novel contexts, we created a workflow whereby one dream recorder wrote down eight distinct dreams, and three dream interpreters use these narrative fragments to visually recreate these subconscious experiences...