JOURNAL OF EMERGING TRENDS AND NOVEL RESEARCH
2026
Soumili Das, S. Mandal
- In the history of philosophy, there have been many disagreements regarding the existence of consciousness and its basis. The main question is whether consciousness is produced from matter or whether it has an independent existence. Some philosophers claim that consciousness originates from matter; they are called materialists. Others believe that the world is composed of two substances—matter...
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science
2026
Mahesh Shrestha
Modern cosmology has established that ordinary baryonic matter constitutes only a small fraction of the cosmic mass–energy budget, while dark matter and dark energy account for the dominant remainder. Although their gravitational and cosmological effects are strongly supported by observation, their underlying physical nature remains incompletely understood. At the same time, consciousness...
2026
Josephine Jörke, Lena Erdmann, Michael A. Rapp et al.
preprint
High ventilation breathwork (HVB) has received growing interest as a potential therapeutic tool in the context of the psychedelic renaissance and the expanding scientific research on mind–body practices. It involves intentionally increasing the speed and/or depth of breathing and is often conducted in groups, guided by facilitators and accompanied by evocative music. HVB has been reported to...
2026
Mac Gallen, Vince Polito
preprint
Practices involving altered states of consciousness (ASCs) are receiving increasing scientific and public attention, particularly in domains such as psychedelic assisted therapy and mindfulness-based interventions (Lee et al., 2021; Nichols et al., 2017). There is also an increasing interest in a broader range of practices involving altered states, including breathwork, ice-bath immersions,...
2026
Romulus D. Stefanut
Philos Therapeutae is the best exemplum for what a Hellenistic Jewish contemplative life would look like in first century CE Alexandria. In constructing the contemplative life of the Therapeutae, Philo brings together various insights from Hellenistic philosophy and religion.
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
2026
Raaghav Pandya, Christopher Emdin
As the post-pandemic classroom and pedagogy evolve to remedy oppressive norms, young people’s mental health and alienation has taken front stage (Rahmani & Zitouni, 2022). Traditional STEM learning spaces often teach inquiry as a linear, non-deviated approach to problems about self and nature (Hrisa & Psillos, 2022). Furthermore, because our classrooms often strip students and educators of...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
2026
Kari Van Gelder
Death is generally unspoken, ignored, and considered too difficult to bring forward into our classrooms. Bringing death to my contemplative pedagogy has been essential for me as a teacher and on behalf of my middle school students. The deepest and most reverential way that we do this in my classroom is through an annual remembrance ritual. On this day, we remember people and pets in our lives...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
2026
Pietro Perconti
The mind has a subjective side. This is evidenced by a number of cognitive processes, including self-consciousness, first-person perspective, qualia, and individual differences in perception and emotion. In the early decades of cognitive science, these types of mental events were studied very cautiously. It was feared that they would compromise the experimental character of the new science of...
Open Journal of Philosophy
2026
Ying Ren, Hong Chen
Taoist philosophy of heart-mind explores the nature of mind and psychological phenomena with a factual nature and guides the possibility and practical path of the sage with a value-oriented nature, and realizes the unity of the two in exploring the nature of mind and transcendence. In terms of factual nature, Taoism takes “Tao” as the metaphysical foundation and “qi” as the material basis,...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
2026
Massimiliano L. Cappuccio
Perconti’s paper argues that social cognition is more fundamental than self-consciousness and indeed forms its foundation. Drawing on perspectives from enactivism and empirical fields like social neuroscience, robotics, and performance psychology, the argument challenges the traditional view that self-consciousness represents the pinnacle of human cognition. Instead, the author maintains that...