Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
August 29, 2026
Insil Song, Sujin Yun
Purpose: This study explored how adults who participated in a Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program experience self-compassion, and interpreted the meaning structure of that experience to reveal its underlying essence. Methods: Van Manen’s hermeneutic phenomenology was adopted. Data were collected from three adults who had completed a standard MSC program through individual written accounts and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 29, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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The problem of consciousness occupies a singular position in contemporary philosophy: universally acknowledged as difficult, unresolved in its central question, and productive of a technical literature whose positions are now sharply defined. This review synthesizes the development of the mind-body problem from the mid-twentieth-century critiques of empiricism to the present landscape of...
PsyArXiv
August 28, 2026
Bastian Jaeger, Stefan Leach, Matthew Zipple
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Consciousness and the capacity to experience affective states, such as pain, pleasure, fear, and hunger (i.e., sentience) are seen as key determinants of an individual’s moral status, a view that is shared by scientists, philosophers, and laypeople. Whether (and which) non-human animals are believed to possess these capacities can therefore have important consequences for how they are treated....
Neuroethics
August 28, 2026
De Miguel Beriain, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Francesca Tassinari et al.
Abstract The rapid advance of neurotechnology has produced a vibrant scholarly and legislative debate around neurorights — a proposed generation of human rights designed to protect mental privacy, cognitive liberty, mental integrity, and psychological continuity against the most threatening applications of neurotechnology. This article argues that the neurorights framework, while representing a...
August 28, 2026
Douglas Henrique Honorato Carvalho
A persistent challenge at the intersection of fundamental physics and the philosophy of mind lies in the apparent incommensurability between the geometric objectivity of spacetime and the qualitative subjectivity of conscious experience. This paper formalizes the Recursive Information Latency Hypothesis (RILH). By modeling the quantum vacuum as a non-linear four-dimensional (4D) fluid within...
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
August 28, 2026
M. Pérez-Marcos
The paper explains Eugene d’Aquili and Andrew Newberg's fundamental ideas about the neural basis of religious experiences, examining their ideas about why the brain creates myths and why rituals are so important. It also explains their hypothesis about what would happen in the brain during the most intense moments of the meditation experience, both in the negative and positive pathways, what...
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
August 28, 2026
Diana Moga
Autistic individuals are more susceptible to trauma due to higher baseline anxiety and overwhelm; poorer episodic memory; and the frequent lack of a sense of community, safety, and belonging that are both protective and needed to heal from trauma. Furthermore, many autistic adults have adopted a false self to get by in a neurotypical world and are often cut off from their affective, embodied...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 27, 2026
Chengcheng Wu
This paper critically examines the view that Husserl's 1891 essay The Logic of Signs (LoS) anticipates the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). According to this interpretation, Husserl's account of symbolic inference endorses an automatic, syntactic, causally driven model of thought. However, this study argues that such a reading neglects Husserl's broader philosophical context and his explicit...
Mindfulness
August 27, 2026
Sally S. Wynn, Rachel Ricks, Unurzaya Amarsaikhan et al.
Anxiety and depressive symptoms are elevated among musicians, including student musicians. This study examined whether trait mindfulness was associated with musicianship indicators and mental health symptoms in undergraduate instrumental musicians. Musicianship indicators included instrument category, weekly practice time, and use of deliberate practice techniques. Undergraduate instrumental...
PsyArXiv Preprints
August 27, 2026
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Abstract: Psychedelics have been used for spiritual purposes for centuries. However, concerns have been raised regarding spiritual bypassing, maladaptive meaning-making, and increased suggestibility when psychedelics are combined with religious or spiritual beliefs. We examined spiritual bypassing, receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit, subclinical psychotic experiences, well-being, and...