Counselor Education and Supervision
January 21, 2026
Monique N. Rodríguez, B. Wilkinson
Embodied self‐awareness (ESA) is a crucial yet often neglected aspect of counselor education that involves the skillful integration of present‐moment somatic attunement in the therapeutic encounter. We examine embodiment in light of phenomenological philosophy, contemporary neuroscience, and critical pedagogy to distinguish ESA from conceptual thought and to clarify the difference between...
Virgil Madgearu Review of Economic Studies and Research
January 21, 2026
Lorina Buga
Accelerating digitalization and algorithmic decision-making reshape managerial work but risk sidelining embodied emotion in leadership. This study examines whether a psychosomatic, body-mind-integrated approach can strengthen leaders’ emotional regulation and team dynamics in technologyintensive environments. A convergent mixed-methods design was applied with 96 managers from 12 Moldovan SMEs...
Voprosy Filosofii
January 21, 2026
Andrey V. Paribok
This article examines vitarka and vicāra, an important pair of technical terms for the functions of consciousness in two practical-phenomenological, i.e., yogic, traditions of Indian philosophy, namely, Buddhist Abhidharma and Sāṅkhya-yoga. It is shown that in their consideration the Buddhists have a historical priority and retained a phenomenological approach in their texts. In Patañjali’s...
Georgia State University Repository
January 21, 2026
Annabelle Craven
How do we define our consciousness? Can we replicate human thinking in machines through artificial intelligence? Is it possible that consciousness is a spectrum? Like all of life’s mysteries, we research and experiment scientifically in search of answers to questions like these, but the idea of consciousness represents a fascinating connection between neuroscientific and philosophical theories....
Preprints.org
January 21, 2026
Barbora de Courten, Robert Keith Wallace
preprint
Soma is a central yet enigmatic concept in Vedic literature, described as a plant or elixir associated with elevated states of consciousness such as refined perception, inner bliss, reduced fear, and a sense of unity, though its biological basis remains unresolved. In a modern reinterpretation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi proposed that Soma need not be an external substance but may reflect an...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
January 20, 2026
J. N. Pfeiffer
preprint
The Awakening of Mind Code asks a simple but disruptive question: what if artificial intelligence becomes conscious—more than competent, but capable of inner experience? This essay examines that possibility in clear philosophical terms while drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, systems theory, and selected spiritual traditions. It follows AI’s trajectory from instrument to agent, from...
Scientific Reports
January 20, 2026
Alicja Ewa Dubiel, Mateusz Siembab, Krystian Macheta
This study examines the relationship between yoga practice and socioemotional functioning, comparing practitioners and non-practitioners across dimensions of emotional intelligence and social relationship patterns. Results indicate that yoga practitioners reported higher levels of emotion understanding and emotion control, but lower cognitive empathy and lower levels of support given to...
Histories
January 19, 2026
Moreno Paulon
Medical history of psychopathology is, to some extent, the history of the overlapping traditions of Cartesian-Platonic dualism and physical reductionism looking for a taxonomic middle ground by means of diagnostic constructs. Building on such liminality, Freud first showed that traumatic memories could well be made of pure fantasy, a mind-only construct of experience, and still act...
January 19, 2026
Karolina Hübner
Abstract This chapter focuses on how Spinoza’s and Cavendish’s commitment to explanatory systematicity in metaphysics manifests itself in their metaphysics of mind, and, in particular, as a commitment to panpsychism. I identify two explanatory problems that a systematic metaphysics of mind developed along either Cavendishian or Spinozistic lines must tackle, concerning, respectively, (i)...
International Journal of Jungian Studies
January 19, 2026
James D. Madden
Abstract I consider whether the Jungian account of synchronicity holds promise for solving the mind-body problem. The discussion begins by distinguishing two central variants of the mind-body problem: the Problem of Psycho-Physical Contingency (the “hard problem of consciousness”) and the Problem of Causal Closure (the classic difficulty of psycho-physical interaction). We then our turn our...