Ghosts are a traditional element of any worldview. They create the plot of literary works, dreams, and even possess the ability to intervene in the course of historical events. Despite their diversity, they all come from the past, revealing it to the present.The authors of the article believe that ghosts inhabit the social relations of the metaphysical, dialectical, electromagnetic,...
PsyArXivApril 24, 2026Pedro E Maldonado, Rubén Moreno Bote
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Consciousness is primarily understood as a personal, subjective experience that can co-occur with various other subjective states, such as visual perception, emotions, memories, and awareness of actions. Many of these experiences are linked to the activation of well-defined neuronal processes, with their anatomical substrates often clearly identified. In this paper, we propose that...
Reliably detecting consciousness in unresponsive patients remains an urgent ethical and clinical challenge, as no behavior-independent marker is currently accepted in clinical practice. We characterize consciousness as linked to a representation of the embodied subject of experience, mediated by multisensory integration within the peripersonal space (PPS) system. We test whether a neural marker...
The ultimate goal of dream interpretation is to increase consciousness, and a neurobiological model of dreams would share this objective. As discussed in previous chapters, by enhancing access to dreams, a hypothesis connecting Jung’s symbolic approach to dreamwork with the neurobiology of integration is proposed. Symbolic amplification of dream images demonstrates a top-down, subjective...
Consciousness science has made substantial progress in studying how perceptual contents become conscious, yet it has paid comparatively little attention to a broader question: what makes an experiential world feel real? This article treats the sense of reality as a distinct explanandum, understood as the pre-reflective way in which a current world is experienced as present, coherent,...
Altered states of consciousness (ASC) represent a universal human capacity for accessing and transforming the subconscious mind, employed across cultures and millennia through diverse contemplative, somatic, pharmacological, ritual, and technological modalities. This comprehensive review synthesizes evidence from over 25 distinct disciplines spanning five clusters: (A) contemplative and...
This article introduces Chapters 1 and 2 of La Transmutation: Jung et l’Islam, in which Jad Hatem offers a close hermeneutic reading of Qur’anic Sura 18 (The Cave) through the lens of analytical psychology. Engaging, and at times challenging C.G. Jung’s own interpretations, Hatem situates the narrative of the Sleepers, Moses, and Khidr within the process of individuation, emphasizing...
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...
Zawsze i wszędzie muzyka wywoływała zmiany w świadomości doświadczających jej ludzi. Muzyka instrumentalna epoki romantyzmu łączyła się jednak ze świadomością w sposób wyjątkowy – wielu ówczesnych kompozytorów stworzyło bowiem dzieła, które bez pomocy tekstu obrazują proces owej zmiany świadomości w toku. Niniejszy artykuł proponuje model następstwa elementów, który zwykli wykorzystywać...
DreamingMarch 26, 2026Jai Marin, Noah Thomas, Lan Nguyen et al.
Dreams represent a universal human experience linked to emotional regulation, memory processing, and psychological well-being, yet the extent to which stable personality traits shape dream experiences remains unclear. Previous reviews have either focused narrowly on nightmares or examined general sleep-related patterns, leaving questions about the broader role of personality in dreaming...