Sustainability Science
September 8, 2026
Therese Asplund, Pål Dobrin
Abstract Building on calls for deep human–nature reconnection and growing recognition of contemplative pathways for inner–outer transformations toward sustainability, this study addresses a current gap in empirical research on contemplative interventions designed to cultivate a deeper sense of connection with the more-than-human world. This study (1) develops an approach to the Buddhist...
PsyArXiv Preprints
September 8, 2026
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This study aims to obtain detailed information about the afterlife and how discarnate entities live there, using 37 different sources for the first time. These sources comprise seven selected participants claiming to be able to interview entities living in the afterlife, six participants claiming a direct experience of the afterlife, six experts on this topic, and books by 17 different authors...
Biosystems
September 8, 2026
Emiliano Bruner
Frequently, the terms self and ego are employed as synonyms. From the one hand, this can obscure and confound different experiences related to consciousness. On the other hand, this can limit the use of these concepts when trying to express the human potential, and enhance well-being. Following the principles of ecology, system theory, and extended cognition, I propose an operational definition...
People and Nature
September 7, 2026
K. Moon
This paper seeks to contribute to (re)building the capacity for embodied, place‐based relational knowing, transforming how we know and thus what we know. What is known, or sought to be known, is relations. How we know these relations is by already being in it: breathing, sensing, moving, listening, responding, affecting and being affected. Autoethnographic inquiry, grounded in daily practices...
Personal Demons
September 7, 2026
This chapter reads Twin Peaks as a sustained meditation on demonic possession, culpability, and the failure of liberal narrative forms to contain sexual violence. Focusing on Leland Palmer’s deathbed confession and its retraction across the series, the chapter argues that possession in Twin Peaks functions not to exculpate the perpetrator but to expose the incoherence of agency under conditions...
September 7, 2026
Grace Lavery
Personal Demons offers a new theory of the relation between sex, desire, and personhood, asking what we should make of the many contemporary instances when bodies seem to want different things from the consciousnesses within them. Grace Lavery maps the negative energies—demonic, incoherent, resistant—through which liberalism produces and disciplines its scapegoats. Through an examination of...
Adolescência e Saúde
September 7, 2026
Radhika Sourabh, A. Anand Kumar, S Nandana
Intuition is a complex integrative cognitive process involving distributed neural networks and rapid experiential processing. Contemporary dual-process models conceptualize intuition as fast, automatic cognition corresponding to System 1, contrasted with slower analytical reasoning. Traditional yogic literature also describes an intuitive dimension of cognition that may be refined through...
Kultura i Wartości
September 7, 2026
Daniel Shargel
Anger, according to many theorists, represents an act of wrongdoing. Forgiveness puts an end to anger, and it is often earned by repairing the harm done to the victim. However, it is hard to square this view of anger with the following facts: that successfully repairing the harm is neither necessary nor sufficient for earning forgiveness, and that it is necessary for the wrongdoer to...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
September 7, 2026
Adv. Rajiv Shinde
In much popular writing, uposatha is glossed simply as "fasting day," collapsing it into upavāsa ("fasting"). This paper argues that the two words denote two distinct — though historically intertwined — practices. Etymologically, upavāsa (upa + √vas) lexicalizes the act of abstaining from food, a dietary discipline shared across Vedic, Ayurvedic and devotional traditions; upavasatha (Pāli...
Body & Society
September 7, 2026
Matteo di Placido, Giuseppe Giordan
This article introduces the idea of multiple habitus , a heuristic tool for analyzing the transmission, incorporation and social reproduction of religious teachings within a continuously transforming spiritual field. Drawing on data from the project ‘Buddhism in Italy’ we show how Italian Buddhism articulates a plurality of “core dispositions” that display notable congruence across major...