European Journal of Education and Counselling
August 28, 2026
Sümeyra Yakar, Meryem Karaaziz
This study aims to comparatively examine the concept of self within the framework of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology and Mevlâna Celaleddin-i Rumi's Sufi understanding. The self, central to human existence, is considered a fundamental element in both approaches as a key component of the individual's inner transformation process. In Jung's theory, the self is defined as a psychological...
The Journal of Value Inquiry
August 28, 2026
Kyle York, Merily Salura
Abstract Dreams can be aesthetically valuable in many ways. They can provide opportunities for aesthetically rich experiences of agency and action, placing the dreamer into novel situations and taking her out of her usual network of motivations, commitments, and goals. Dreams can also feature unique ambiences and evoke awe both regarding their content and regarding consciousness itself....
Annual report
August 27, 2026
Tyrus Miller
Sleep, Idleness, and the Passages between Surrealism and the ReadymadeThe Lining of SleepIn his "Manifesto of Surrealism," published in 1924, André Breton posed the question whether the apparent intermittence of the thoughts of dreamconsciousness might not be equally true of waking consciousness, or whether, indeed, waking-consciousness should not be considered a "phenomenon of interference"...
Neophilologica
August 26, 2026
Anna Kuncy-Zając
The aim of this article is to analyze the notion of movement in the conceptualizations of some altered states of consciousness, such as: sleeping (sonno), dreaming (sogno), meditation (meditazione) and hypnosis (ipnosi) in the Italian language. The research presented is based on the following theories: thematic proto-roles by D. Dowty (1991) and Kinesthetic Image Schemas by G. L akoff (1987),...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Juza Minamikata
preprint
Consciousness research contains several distinct transfer problems: from reports or neural signals to target states, from target states to consciousness classifications, from coarse to fine grains, and from shared classifications to claims of common underlying structure. This paper argues that these problems instantiate a single methodological restriction, the Non-Inheritance Principle: warrant...
Voice of History
August 25, 2026
Ram Kumar Rai
Shamanism generally refers to indigenous ritual systems involving relationships between humans and spiritual or non-human realms, often associated with healing, spirit mediation, trance, and altered states of consciousness. In the Khambu worldview of eastern Nepal, Dowang refers to an indigenous ritual institution associated with ancestral calling, sacred knowledge, and the transmission of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 24, 2026
Metin Doğan
preprint
The Dream-Mediated Awakening Hypothesis (DMAH) is a conceptual and testable hypothesis concerning the transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness. DMAH proposes that every successful transition from sleep to conscious wakefulness may involve a transient state of subjective, internally generated experience immediately before or during awakening. This experience need not take the form of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 23, 2026
Francis Smith
preprint
This preprint develops a state-space account of phenomenal character in which conscious experience depends not only on the configuration presently realized, but also on the represented structure of transitions available from that configuration. The framework distinguishes current phenomenal configuration, external anchoring, and a prospective transition field describing the topology of...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 20, 2026
Atakan Selte, Steven E. Haworth, Thomas J. Vanasse et al.
preprint
Abstract Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Using overnight 256-electrode high-density EEG in 140 participants and a serial-awakening paradigm, we analyzed 699 non-rapid eye...
Review of International American Studies
August 20, 2026
Navdeep Kahol
The novella Pale Horse, Pale Rider, authored by Katherine Anne Porter and published in 1939, is set against the backdrop of the 1918–1919 Spanish flu pandemic towards the end of World War I. It narrates the dual story of individual and societal trauma and survival amidst the pandemic, contributing to the cultural memory of that era in American history. The narrative draws heavily on...