Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
Psychological literatures on coping, emotion regulation, and contemplative practice have generated a large inventory of techniques for responding to distress, but comparatively little theory about how a person should choose among them. The dominant question has been which technique works; the neglected question is which response is appropriate to this disturbance, at this stage of its...
International Journal of Social Science Research and Review
August 6, 2026
Carlos F. de Angelis
Social acceleration is not an accidental feature of contemporary societies but the organizing principle of a modernity that must continuously increase its rates of production, change, and innovation in order to sustain its own conditions of existence. This article examines whether qualitatively different temporalities can be produced within this structure, allowing for a relationship with time...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 6, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper develops a novel account of minimal-dual awareness as a disciplined epistemic method that systematically alters the access conditions of consciousness to reveal structures of temporality and cognition. Building on an Existential Realism (ER) framework, we argue that conventional, detached cognition often conflates reality with existence and thereby obscures the special role of the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 6, 2026
Narayan Rout
preprint
This article examines the neuroscientific evidence for states corresponding to Samadhi as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Advaita Vedanta (Turiya, the fourth state). Seven confirmed neuroscientific findings: (1) Default mode network (DMN) deactivation in deep meditators — Judson Brewer (Brown University) and colleagues: experienced meditators show dramatic DMN suppression...
Comparative Studies in Society and History
August 6, 2026
Matt Tomlinson
Abstract Recent work on metaphysical healing practices extends William James’s observations on what he called the “mind cure.” Four titles are reviewed on the topics of mindfulness, ayahuasca use, Spiritualism, and shamanism. In the United Kingdom, advocates join forces with parliamentarians to promote mindfulness as the key to ensuring a psychologically healthy nation. At commercial ayahuasca...
bioRxiv
August 5, 2026
A. Callara, Francesco Bossi, Jampa Soepa et al.
preprint
Seven EEG recordings over thirteen months revealed highly stereotyped transitions between distinct brain dynamics in an advanced meditator, providing a rare experimental window onto large-scale brain-state dynamics. We report an intensive longitudinal EEG case study of an experienced Tibetan tantric practitioner recorded across seven different measurement sessions, including concentrative and...
Multi-Disciplinary Explorations: The Kasthamandap College Journal
August 5, 2026
H. Sapkota
This conceptual paper discusses the adaptation of techniques used in the contemplation traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism for application in English as a foreign language, focusing on mindful reading. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita’s principles of anāsakta karma (detached action) and samatva (equanimity), together with Buddhist teachings of Sati (mindfulness) and Vipassanā (insight meditation),...
Mindfulness
August 5, 2026
Hang Yang, Bruno Herbelin, Elena Pecchini et al.
Abstract Objectives Regular self-compassion practice is associated with improved mental health by fostering kindness toward one’s suffering and relying on self-related processes like perspective-taking. It is not known whether recently described self-related processes that rely on multisensory bodily signals, induced by exposing participants to an avatar and multisensory stimulation, also...
Asian Journal of Philosophy
August 5, 2026
Donovan Wishon
Abstract This paper critically examines Haoying Liu’s recent challenge to Russellian monism (RM), often understood as the view that (1) physics describes natural phenomena entirely in structural terms; (2) such phenomena possess intrinsic characters, or quiddities, that constitute or ground what physics describes structurally; and (3) phenomenal consciousness is constituted, at least in part,...
Otago University Research Archive
August 4, 2026
Caitlin Elaine Thorburn
While cannabis has been reported to have many therapeutic utilisations, minimal studies have explored the use behaviours of individuals with ADHD in New Zealand. Due to the considerably high rates of cannabis use within this population, it is necessary that this gap in the literature is explored. Of the analyses that have been conducted, it appears that the self-medication hypothesis may...