Background Breathwork that increases ventilatory rate or depth represents an accessible non-pharmacological modality for potentially inducing altered states of consciousness (ASCs). Despite gaining traction as a potential therapeutic tool, empirical controlled research on breathwork and ASCs remains limited. Methods We examined the effects of a single session of high ventilation breathwork,...
VidhyayanaJune 9, 2026M.S. Rajani Kanth, P. Gurumurthy, P. Srikanth
This paper examines how human experience, inner discipline (Understanding of the self), and cosmic order operate as a natural unity rather than as separate philosophical compartments. The study is grounded in Para Vidya, where the trinity is understood as deha (bodily self), jiva (conceptual self), and paramathma (the actual self), not as three independent possessions but as expressions of...
Before that moment, there was truly nothing, no time, no space, no matter, not even emptiness, because emptiness too needs space to exist.All that would become the universe was compressed into an unimaginably small point, a singularity, smaller than an atom, yet containing within it all the potential of everything that has ever been or will be.Then, in a flash, that singularity expanded.Time...
Abstract:The Dhammasaṅgaṇī sets the stage for Theravāda Abhidhamma, in a fine-grained analysis of consciousness that zooms in on the most minutely identifiable or conceptualizable moments of mind. Any such consciousness or mental moment is characterized by a list of dhammas, commonly taken as "phenomena" or defined as cetasikas – accompanying mental factors, with a basic number of 56 elements...
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of Sila learning (X₁) and loving-kindness meditation (X₂) on adaptive behavior among 85 students at SDN 2 Mareje. Data collection techniques consisted of questionnaires and observations, while data analysis techniques included classical assumption tests, multiple linear regression, t-tests, F-tests, and the coefficient of determination. The...
Abstract This paper develops palimpsestic theology as a practical theological methodology for engaging with psychiatric archives. Drawing from Mad Studies, liberation theology, critical disability studies, and contemplative traditions, it resists extractive approaches to knowledge production and instead attends to fragments, silences, and erased spiritual expressions. Through four...
The article presents a scholarly annotated translation and new working edition of the Vibhūtipāda, the third chapter of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra (i.e., the Yoga Sutra together with the so-called Yogabhāṣya, dated to approximately 400 CE). This chapter provides the earliest and most comprehensive systematic account of meditation-derived extraordinary capacities from the perspective of...
Contemporary psychology generally views identification as one of the mechanisms of psychological development, socialization, and personality formation. This paper proceeds from a different assumption. Identification is not a separate psychological mechanism but rather a defective mode of the fundamental mechanism of creative imagination. The central thesis of the paper is that there are not two...
This article examines the convergences and divergences between the human mind and the AI “mind” by drawing on historical philosophical accounts of the relationship between divine and human intellect. The relation conceived between the divine as creator and the human as created may offer insight into the present and future dynamics between human creators and AI systems. Elements such as...
The question "what is an emotion" is as old as the study of the mind and brain. Scientists from Western, English-speaking, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) nations tend to adopt certain definitions, but these definitions do not map onto the lived experiences of all people around the world. My approach to the question "what is an emotion?" is thus to accept that emotions are folk...