This research aims to explore and analyze the relationship between neuroscience and creative processes in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human creativity. The method used was qualitative research with a descriptive approach through literature studies, with data collection techniques in the form of searching scientific literature from journal...
In modern science, disciplines such as physics, mechanical and civil engineering, seismology, and acoustics have conceptualized vibration as a quantifiable mechanical phenomenon, measured through the metrics of frequency, amplitude, and resonance. In contrast, scholarship in anthropology, musicology, and sound studies has approached vibration as a socio-historical, cultural, and political...
Anxiety, sexuality, and dreams are the three pillars upon which psychoanalytic models of the mind are based, yet these phenomena also have a specific place in the domain of neuroscience. Evidence has been provided to demonstrate that anxiety is clearly neurobiologically based in both humans and animals. This position situates it at the intersection of various theoretical models and enables...
Abstract This chapter traces the development of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy of mind from his early engagements with panpsychism and idealism through his dualist period and finally to his mature neutral monism. It advances three central claims. First, Russell’s positions on the mind are consistently shaped by his sustained engagement with empirical psychology and the natural sciences. Second,...
The Theory of Psychic Quanta (TPQ) postulates the existence of a universal non-local psychic field whose quantized excitations—termed informational quanta (analogous to qubits) —anchor to coherent brain systems to generate individual consciousness as a phenomenological unit. According to this model, the brain does not produce consciousness in an emergentist sense; rather, it acts as a...
PsiConnect is a large-scale neuroimaging study designed to investigate context-dependent neural and subjective effects of psilocybin using multimodal neuroimaging. It combines functional, structural, and diffusion-weighted MRI with EEG to examine brain activity in 62 participants before and after a 19 mg dose of psilocybin. The design includes resting-state scans and three naturalistic...
This paper reinterprets the Pre-prophetic stage of the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ life as a manifestation of Taqdīr Ilāhī (Divine Orchestration) and Manhaj al-Rūḥānī (Spiritual Paradigm). It states that these formative years were neither accidental but constituted divinely arranged stages of spiritual purification, ethical cultivation, and inner discipline—designed by Allah to mould him into the...
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Self-regulation, which subsumes variables like emotional and behavioral regulation is usually measured using self-report and qualitative techniques, but biomarkers like heart rate variability (HRV) are also indicative of self-regulation. This study understood whether using a mindfulness-based virtual reality (VR) technology, aloeVR, produced adaptive effects on the HRV and self-reported...
This essay argues that a mature science of consciousness cannot rely only on third-person observation of neural, behavioral, or functional correlates. It must also develop disciplined first-person inquiry: trained, refined, communicable, and corrigible forms of observing experience from within. In dialogue with neuroscience, phenomenology, contemplative practice, and syntropic philosophy, the...
May 20, 2026Chuong Ngo, Lionel A Newman, Monika Stasytyte et al.
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Advanced meditative absorption states remain difficult to study scientifically because they are rare, challenging to elicit under controlled conditions, and depend strongly on first-person phenomenology. This study presents a neurophenomenological case report of an advanced Yogic meditator with more than 20 years of sustained practice who reliably entered a deeply absorbed state referred to by...