Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition
October 6, 2026
Rebecka Malm
Ego dissolution (ED; a temporary disruption of self-boundaries and personal identity) is a central feature of many altered states of consciousness. With the resurgence of psychedelic research, these experiences have become of growing clinical relevance, as they can evoke both profound therapeutic transformation and significant psychological destabilization. This conceptual paper reviews the...
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
October 6, 2026
Chad Collyer, Gia Han Le, Maryam Hassan et al.
Short-acting tryptamine psychedelics are emerging as candidate psychiatric therapeutics with pharmacological profiles that may offer practical advantages over longer-acting psychedelics. N,N-dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) differ in pharmacokinetic, receptor, and phenomenological properties, while zalsupindole is a putatively non-hallucinogenic...
International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology
October 6, 2026
I. V. Davydenko, I. M. Lavrinenko, Ya. M. Litovchenko
he article examines the cross-cultural conceptualization of transformative states of consciousness from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. The study focuses on five concepts ENLIGHTENMENT, AWAKENING, BODHI, NIRVANA, and MOKSHA selected for their relevance to philosophical and religious discourse. The research material comprises lexicographic sources, philosophical and religious texts, and...
International Journal of Social Science Research and Review
October 5, 2026
Satyabrata Sahoo, K.R. Rama Mohan
This article examines embodied learning among visually impaired (VI) students attending residential Schools for the Blind in Odisha, India. Grounding in patchwork ethnographic fieldwork across three institutions, the School for the Blind at Banpur NAC, Bhima Bhoi School for the Blind, and Louis Braille School for the Blind in Bhubaneswar, the study challenges the ocularcentrist assumption that...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
October 5, 2026
Khaled Al-Kassimi, Layal Hmaidi
Mainstream secular psychology is grounded in an epistemological framework that privileges reason while largely excluding revelation, thereby limiting its capacity to engage the spiritual dimensions of contemporary mental health and socio-political crises. Yet recent decades have witnessed growing scholarly and clinical interest in non-secular epistemologies that affirm the spiritual essence of...
REVISTA MULTIDISCIPLINAR INTEGRADA - REMI
October 5, 2026
Paula Victoria Cantão Coelho, Karine Rodrigues da Silva Neumann, Elaine Cristina Rocha Oliveira
O comportamento alimentar é influenciado por fatores fisiológicos, emocionais, psicológicos, sociais e ambientais, não podendo ser compreendido exclusivamente a partir da necessidade de ingestão de nutrientes. Nesse contexto, a alimentação emocional representa uma manifestação relevante, uma vez que determinados indivíduos podem recorrer à comida diante de situações de estresse, ansiedade,...
Research Square
October 5, 2026
Gustavo França
preprint
Abstract Patients admitted to psychiatric wards, and particularly those admitted involuntarily, may become subject to profoundly consequential decisions while remaining uncertain of the diagnosis attributed to them, the grounds for their detention, the identity and role of those who decide, the procedures that govern admission, and the conditions under which liberty may be restored. Such...
Tatho
October 5, 2026
A. Rima Mustajab, Saqib Khan Warraich
Character education in Islamic educational institutions extends beyond the transmission of moral knowledge to the cultivation of students’ religious dispositions and ethical practices. This study examines the role of istighotsah, a collective spiritual practice, in fostering character education among students at MTs NU Miftahut Tholibin Mejobo Kudus, with particular attention to religious...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Thomas Blottenberger
preprint
Some of the most familiar stories in a human life look, up close, like separate problems: the raise you were sure would finally feel like enough, which a few weeks in has quietly become the number you now have to beat; the hours spent going back over your childhood trying to locate the thing that explains why you are the way you are; the one sharp moment with your kid that lands as a verdict on...
medRxiv
October 5, 2026
Praachi Tiwari, Sandeep M. Nayak, Nathan D. Sepeda et al.
preprint
Importance: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has a 2% global prevalence, but only about 50% of patients respond to conventional treatment, underscoring the need for additional effective interventions. Objective: To assess the feasibility, safety, and preliminary evidence for efficacy of repeated psilocybin administration in OCD patients who had previously attempted psychotherapy or...