Iryana Mosina, David Luke
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Abstract Background . It is widely accepted that beyond the pharmacological predictors, individuals’ pre-drug mental disposition, including intentions , influences the psychedelic experience. However, is it not fully clear how intentions and outcomes relate. This study explores the intention category and explicitness in association with outcomes. Methods . Content validated intention categories...
Amer Dardagan
In several versions of „Introduction to Aristotle's Categories“ („The Isagoge“) we find very intriguing diagram of the "Tree of Porphyry". This diagram is closely linked with the square of opposition (logical square), natural tree with vegetative ornaments and the anthropomorphic figure. Porphyry took over Aristotle's division into five predicables (quinque praedicabilia) and defined them...
Dr. Srivas Krishna Das Brahmacari
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" Quantum Consciousness: Exploring Matter, Mechanics, and Interconnectedness in Vedic Texts" embarks on an illuminating journey at the intersection of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science. This book explores how the profound teachings of Vedic philosophy provide a rich framework for understanding the complexities of quantum physics and consciousness. By examining the Bhagavad Gita, the...
Suresh Kumar.S
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The article discusses different brain models in cognitive science, as well as evolutionary, hierarchic, orchestrated, adaptive, system oriented, biocultural and intutional and transcendent brain and mind perspectives. The Triune models are discussed in detail with its limitations in the light of new findings and scientific developments. The different paradigms of brain models are related to...
Venkat A. Mohan
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What if our greatest limitations—finitude and uncertainty—are not flaws to overcome but the very conditions that make experience possible? The Joy of Uncertainty proposes that consciousness, meaning, and even physical reality emerge not from abundance but from constraint—from the narrowing of infinite possibility into finite form. This essay explores a counterintuitive premise: that the...
Uzi Ben Zvi
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The biblical story of eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is traditionally interpreted in terms of sin and punishment. This article proposes an alternative reading grounded in two complementary frameworks: the Interface Theory of Consciousness (Ben-Zvi, 2025), which offers an evolutionary and neurological account of the emergence of human consciousness,...
Bruno Abbondanza
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Nonordinary experiences of consciousness, including out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, mystical states, psychedelic experiences, and profound alterations of self-experience, are often interpreted through neuropsychological and psychiatric categories such as hallucination, dissociation, perceptual alteration, or brain anomaly. Such categories are clinically necessary when the...
Hüseyin Beyköylü, Josi Marschall, Elio Sjak-Shie et al.
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Virtual reality psychedelic experiences (VRPEs) may offer accessible alternatives to substance-induced psychedelic experiences, but their phenomenology and how set and setting factors shape the experience remain underexplored. We conducted a study in a naturalistic festival setting where participants (N = 210) engaged with a 7-minute VRPE while continuous intensity ratings and physiological...
Uwe Hobohm
While numerous mystical encounters have been described in the literature, these experiences were hardly considered in the cognitive sciences appropriately. In general mystical accounts were either interpreted as impermanent subjective feelings outside the grasp or even interest of scientific investigation. Or mystical experiences are discussed within and mixed with religious belief systems...
Suresh Kumar.S
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The computational mind approach was conforming to neural models of material mind based on theories like Neural Correlates of Consciousness. Thinkers like Chalmers posed the Hard Problem of consciousness arguing on the theme of an extended mind going beyond the brain. Gödel incompleteness theorem, called into question the power of mathematics to explain all of reality — along with the hypothesis...