International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
December 16, 2019
Hannes Kettner, Sam Gandy, Eline Haijen et al.
159 citations
(1) Background: There appears to be a growing disconnection between humans and their natural environments which has been linked to poor mental health and ecological destruction. Previous research suggests that individual levels of nature relatedness can be increased through the use of classical psychedelic compounds, although a causal link between psychedelic use and nature relatedness has not...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 19, 2026
John Hansen
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This paper proposes an experimental framework to test whether reflexive self-binding, the property by which ongoing neural processing is experienced as belonging to a subject, can be dissociated from general neural complexity. Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPD) serves as a naturally occurring clinical model: perception, cognition, and memory remain largely intact, while the felt...
arXiv Preprint Archive
October 14, 2026
Riku Ihalainen, Victor Oswald, Gulshan Kumar et al.
preprint
Awakening is reported across contemplative traditions yet remains poorly defined in science, where it is often conflated with transient states induced by meditation or psychedelics, obscuring its significance for theories of consciousness and cognitive architecture. We treat awakening as a functional construct capturing convergence across Hindu and Buddhist sources, phenomenological and...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
October 14, 2026
Greg Cooper, Devon Stoliker, Sebastian Vincent Astl Delgado et al.
preprint
Language helps organise experience into an idiosyncratic, temporally extended sense of self. We therefore used fMRI to investigate whether greater similarity between participants in the activity of language-associated brain regions accompanied psilocybin-induced loss of selfhood. Participants heard music and viewed moving clouds at baseline and after 19 mg psilocybin. At each brain location and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 12, 2026
George Wanjau
preprint
Abstract In depersonalization and derealization (DPDR), patients report that the self and the surrounding world feel unreal, remote, or dreamlike, while memory, reasoning, and perception remain intact on objective testing. This presents a paradox: the components of self-experience appear individually preserved, yet the experience as a whole loses its felt reality. Prevailing accounts localize...
Cureus
September 24, 2026
Angelos Kandilas, Alexandros Samolis, Theodosis Kalamatianos et al.
Self-awareness encompasses the capacity to recognize and evaluate information about oneself, including mental states, actions, autobiographical history, and bodily experience.Although closely related to consciousness, autobiographical memory, metacognition, clinical insight, anosognosia, and bodily selfconsciousness, these constructs are not interchangeable.This focused narrative review...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
September 24, 2026
Shridhar Ghodake, Shrusti Narooti
The “Yogavijam” is a profound Sanskrit text that explores the intricate path to spiritual liberation, emphasizing the inseparable nature of knowledge and yogic practice. The work begins with a devotional invocation and then delves into the nature of existence, positing that the soul, originally pure and divine, becomes entangled in the cycle of birth and death due to ego and the influence of...
PsyArXiv Preprints
September 16, 2026
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The sense of self is fundamental to experience, yet its neural basis remains unresolved. Contemplative traditions and empirical evidence suggest it can be voluntarily dissolved while retaining awareness, offering a window onto this question. We combined magnetoencephalography with in-depth phenomenology in long-term meditators (N=45, mean 3,832 practice hours) who reliably modulated...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 12, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
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Life, Ambition and Dissolution जीवन, महत्वाकांक्षा और विलय English Description This work is an Independent Philosophical Research paper exploring the relationship between life, ambition, desire, identity, bondage, renunciation, spirituality, and liberation. The research proposes a conceptual distinction between ordinary desire and ambition. Ambition is examined not merely as the pursuit of...
September 9, 2026
Csaba Gal
preprint
Caffeine is widely studied as a facilitator of externally directed cognition, yet comparatively little is known about its effects on spontaneous cognition when external behavioural demands are weak. This paper proposes that caffeine can induce a distinctive state of ego-confrontation during rest. Acute caffeine reduces posterior default mode network (DMN) coherence while increasing DMN temporal...