Mind–body practices such as meditation, yoga, and martial arts have been shown to foster psychological well-being and flexible self-experience. However, few studies have examined meditative bodywork rooted in martial traditions or addressed short-term psychological effects related to shifts in self–other boundaries. The present study examined the short-term psychological effects of the Wakame...
Adding to the list of practices permeated by digital technologies, in recent years, domains related to altered states of consciousness (ASC) (e.g. psychedelic experiences) have also seen an increasing number of digital implementations. While implementations at the intersection of HCI and ASC mostly represent weak signals, there is a need for anticipatory research to explore the possible...
This study is going to investigate the intricate relationship between embodied consciousness and yogic philosophical traditions in Indian English women’s poetry. It seeks to demonstrate how women poets writing in English from the Indian context engaged deeply with indigenous epistemologies to articulate a nuanced understanding of the body as both a material and metaphysical entity. Drawing on...
The Bardo Thodol (bar do thos grol), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, has traditionally served as a spiritual manual guiding consciousness through the postmortem bardo (bar do) states toward liberation or rebirth. While prior interpretations have framed the text in ritualistic, psychological, or mystical terms, this essay proposes an original and interdisciplinary...
JCPP AdvancesOctober 7, 2025Carolina Guzman Holst, Simona Skripkauskaite, Jack L. Andrews et al.
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories. This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the...
Consciousness remains one of the most profound unsolved problems in science, particularly regarding the persistence of a unique self across disruption, duplication, or time. Existing frameworks—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), Integrated Information Theory (IIT), and Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR)—describe mechanisms of awareness but fail to explain continuity and uniqueness...
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence necessitate a re-examination of the epistemological foundations upon which we attribute consciousness. As AI systems increasingly mimic human behavior and interaction with high fidelity, the concept of a "perfect mimic"-an entity empirically indistinguishable from a human through observation and interaction-shifts from hypothetical to technologically...
BACKGROUND: In recent years, the renewal of soul-centred shamanic soul retrieval theories has provided various theoretical interpretations of the shamanic soul retrieval phenomenon and has exacerbated the "explanatory gap" found in "mind-mater" dualism. However, these theories cannot explain the body-centred turn of modern Chinese shamans under the influence of the body revitalization movement...
Purpose: This study aims to explore the secret knowledge within the Sufi views of Ibn Sina, focusing on how his philosophical and scientific perspectives intersect with spiritual interpretations. The objective is to understand Ibn Sina’s contribution to Sufi thought, especially his vision of the macrocosm (olami akbar) as perceived through the soul. Research methodology: The research adopts a...
Understanding how subjective experience arises from information processing remains a central challenge in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI research. The Modular Consciousness Theory (MCT) proposes a biologically grounded and computationally explicit framework in which consciousness is a discrete sequence of Integrated Informational States (IISs). Each IIS is a packet of integrated...