Mediumistic experience occupies a contested position at the intersection of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, religious studies, philosophy of mind, and consciousness research. Reports of communication with deceased persons, ancestors, deities, spirits, or other nonordinary intelligences recur across historical periods and cultural settings, often involving voice-hearing, sensed presence,...
Introduction. Apparently, the most important property of consciousness is its blurring in reflections when trying to build its theory. Therefore, it is so difficult to focus the research request on the nature of the mind and consciousness, which, however, impresses with the compactness of expression and the possibilities of meanings concentration. So, in the language of mathematics, the...
The article examines the fundamental causes of the crisis in the contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The most important of these is the formulation of the difficult problem of consciousness as a question about the nature of subjective experience (qualia), which results in the reduction of consciousness to elementary sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. More...
This article analyzes the concept of antara (interval/gap) in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra as a direct method for recognizing nondual consciousness within the Kashmir Śaivism tradition. The study employs a textual hermeneutic analysis of dhāraṇā verses that contain instructions concerning the middle point (madhya), the pause between breaths, the gap between thoughts, and the cessation of...
Yoga emphasizes emotional and physical awareness by fostering mindfulness of emotions, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Yoga teacher training often includes psychological and philosophical components that promote self-compassion, emotional awareness, and resilience. These teachings encourage acceptance and reduce self-criticism, enhancing emotion regulation and psychological well-being. Based...
The Markov blanket has become one of the most conceptually powerful and philosophically contested notions in contemporary work on the Free Energy Principle and active inference. Initially introduced within probabilistic graphical modelling as a formal condition of conditional independence, it has increasingly been used to describe the boundary between internal, external, sensory, and active...
Resonance is an interactive installation that externalizes meditation as collective spatial experience by translating a meditator’s neural rhythms into water, vibration, and light. Real-time EEG data modulates vibration within a suspended water vessel, generating wave patterns whose refracted caustics are projected across the surrounding architecture. Rather than visualizing cognition as...
This Element launches a broadside against the visual-centric approach that has dominated philosophical and scientific discourse about the senses. Considering the variety and breadth of sensory experiences, from the deceptively familiar territories of smell and taste to the frequently overlooked experience of touch and interoceptive processes, it challenges us to rethink the philosophical...
This article offers a comparative ontological hermeneutics of being by placing the yogic discipline of prāṇāyāma (breath control) in dialogue with Meister Eckhart’s mystical theology, especially his notions of Abgeschiedenheit (detachment) and Gelassenheit (releasement). Through a trinitarian ontological lens (not the Christian dogma), it argues that both traditions—though rooted in different...
The global rise in elderly mental health vulnerability calls for holistic interventions integrating psychosocial and spiritual dimensions, yet the combined use of breathwork and dhikr within community-based settings for elderly Muslims remains underexplored. This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study examined whether structured Dzikir Nafas Sadar Allah (DNSA) practice improves...