This article describes the development of an instrument, the Assessment of Dream Experience. This instrument was developed within the context of Rogers's conceptual model, the science of unitary human beings, and was designed to measure dreaming as a beyond waking experience. A detailed description of the instrument and its psychometric properties is presented. Recommendations for future use...
Two replication studies test in Canada a field theory of the effect of consciousness on social change. The exogenous variable is the number of participants in the largest North American group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, in Iowa. The first study indicated a significant reduction in violent deaths (homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle fatalities), using both...
Present day neurophysiology stops with attributing thinking processes as the highest level of function of the brain. It has been common knowledge to oriental thinkers for many centuries, that there are many further states of the human mind, culminating in the state of thoughtless awareness; the fourth state of consciousness. This state must have a physiological basis. The complicated structure...
Abstract In this paper a new ego-psychological thmry is proposed for the understanding of altered stah of consciousness. The diehob mies of primary and secondary process, ego activity and ego receptivity, and automatization and de-automatization of ego functions in daydreaming, in the inspirational phase of creativity, in hypnosis, in psychedelic stabs, and in meditation are discussed; so are...
This paper introduces the notion of adaptive narrative control, a conception of how subpersonal computational processes shape the contents of conscious experience to realize adaptive behavior. We unpack the implications of the theory for understanding the computational mechanisms underwriting psychopathology and improvements in subjective well-being associated with psychedelic therapy and...
Abstract: Yeats's theosophical efforts awakened him to supernatural entities and soul elements of the universe especially in Irish tradition and mythology. Yeats developed visions of another world and aspired to metaphysically achieve spiritual and universal significance. Yeats concretely located the everlasting philosophies in spiritual and universal significance. In the process Yeats’s poetry...
Contemporary Sufi-inspired healing practices in German-speaking contexts draw on concepts and practices whose meanings are reshaped as they enter contemporary healing discourses. Drawing on historical and conceptual scholarship on Sufi traditions and on previously published qualitative findings from a doctoral study of contemplative and healing practices in Germany, the analysis focuses on four...
Research links the neural processes of spiritual experiences, or 'peak experiences' of eudaimonic well-being, to substance abuse recovery. Studies also identify health improvements among substance use disorder (SUD) treatment approaches that include interoceptive awareness training. However, the relationship between interoceptive awareness and spiritual experience within substance use recovery...
This paper presents a philosophical and interdisciplinary investigation into the role of difference, discontinuity, and sensory adaptation in the formation of perception. Its central thesis is that perception fundamentally depends on distinctions across space or time, rather than the passive reception of continuous, unchanging stimuli. Drawing upon established findings in visual perception,...
Contemporary discourse on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) increasingly raises questions about machine consciousness, self-awareness, and the possibility of a soul. Although AI systems now exhibit learning, adaptation, and self-modeling, the philosophical status of these capacities remains contested. This paper examines whether AGI can possess a soul by drawing on the distinction between...