In 2022, Special Collections at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County received the extraordinary gift of one of theworld’s largest archival and book collections devoted toparapsychology and psychic phenomena from theParapsychology Foundation. Named for the foundation’s cofounder, the famed trance medium Eileen J. Garrett(1892-1970), the collection of books, periodicals,photographs, and...
Non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC) have long been described across cultures and spiritual traditions, while contemporary research increasingly examines them through neural, physiological, and phenomenological dimensions.This narrative literature review explores nonpathological NOSC across meditation, yoga, breathwork, psychedelic experiences, near-death experiences, and mystical...
Buletin PsikologiJune 25, 2026Noel Jedidiah Bernhard Maliangkay, I Gusti Ayu Diah Fridari
Near Death Experience (NDE) merupakan fenomena psikologis yang melibatkan unsur transendental saat individu berada pada ambang kematian. Berbagai penelitian telah mengkaji fenomena NDE, namun sebagian besar masih berfokus pada aspek neurobiologis, sehingga cenderung mengabaikan perubahan eksistensial subjektif yang dialami individu pasca-NDE. Dalam konteks budaya Indonesia, mati suri menjadi...
The phenomenon of alien abduction has been widely reported yet remains scientifically contentious. This review synthesizes neuroscientific and psychological findings to elucidate its potential mechanisms. Neural correlates include sleep paralysis, REM intrusion, temporoparietal junction activity, caudate-putamen connectivity, serotonergic modulation (e.g., 5-HT2A receptor) & thanatosis...
Abstract Current medical and ethical standards governing organ harvesting under anesthesia rest on an assumption that has never been formally tested: that the absence of behavioral response and narrative consciousness constitutes the absence of all consciousness. This paper argues that this assumption is both scientifically unexamined and potentially incorrect. Drawing on a documented model of...
Of all scientific frontiers, attempts to establish the existence of psi phenomena may have produced greater gains than any other in recent decades.An ever-growing handful of institutions continue to take the matter quite seriously, and, combined with the efforts of dedicated researchers, have pushed the conversation into territory our forebears would envy.To those tracking these developments,...
A number of professionals across various fields have come together in this anthology to shed new light upon terminal lucidity, while also exploring some other near-death phenomena.Challenging still-prevailing ideas of death, this forward-thinking volume calls for the recognition and integration of these phenomena into the dying process.It also offers intriguing speculation regarding the extent...
Substratism is a neurophilosophical framework in personal identity and consciousness studies. It addresses a category error common to discussions of consciousness and death: the conflation of the cessation of conscious organization with the termination of material existence. The framework maintains three strictly distinct categories. Being is the historically continuous material substrate that...
This chapter examines how people inhabit, interpret and respond to hallucinatory worlds across clinical, cultural and everyday settings. Drawing on phenomena such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, grief-related encounters with the dead, alien abduction narratives, phantom limbs, hypnosis, synaesthesia and voice hearing, it explores how altered perceptions emerge from interactions...
This paper provides a critical desk-based review of the relationship between the pineal gland and “hyperdimensional wisdom” by drawing on neuroendocrinology, consciousness studies, religious and cultural history, and public science narratives. It does not define hyperdimensional wisdom as objective knowledge from higher-dimensional space, nor does it treat the pineal gland as an empirically...