Revista ft
October 5, 2026
Leonardo Rodrigues de Velasco
This article presents the Biogeometric Syntax Theory (BST) as a theoretical and conceptual model for the reconfiguration of consciousness, combining symbolic geometry, embodied attention, psychophysiological regulation, ritual and identity. Its objective is to demonstrate the internal coherence of the thesis that geometric forms and focusing practices function as a language for the organization...
مجلة الاتقان للعلوم الإنسانية
October 4, 2026
م.م مريم عبدالوهاب عثمان
Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, is an example of Modernism as a genre which addressed the issue of consciousness and the unconscious mind in a new way by creating a new type of story that emphasized the study of one's mind.The novel employs a psychological method to analyze the characters' minds and deconstruct the character's psyche and the relationship between the conscious (real)...
The Dyke
October 4, 2026
Simbarashe Ndobe Musasanuri, Richard Muranda
This paper examines the role of popular music in shaping public discourse on kuromba/ hurombwa, an occult wealth-seeking practice embedded within Zimbabwean socio-cultural realities. Situated within the context of prolonged economic instability, unemployment, and widening social inequalities, the study explores how musicians utilise lyrical narratives to expose, critique, and problematise the...
October 4, 2026
Saampras Ganesan, Antoine Lutz, Andrew Zalesky et al.
preprint
Psychiatric disorders remain a major global health challenge, yet research does not adequately incorporate first-person lived experience. A central component of lived experience is the sense of self, which is often profoundly altered in psychiatric conditions and can serve as a prognostic phenomenological marker, particularly in psychosis. In psychiatry, the most minimal form of self, i.e., the...
Spiritual Psychology and Counseling
October 3, 2026
Gülvade Köroğlu, Saffet Kartopu
Contemplation is considered a fundamental consciousness practice that supports spiritual development in both classical Islamic thought and modern spiritual approaches. This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure individuals’ contemplation-based spiritual development levels. Following a literature review and conceptual framework establishment an initial item pool was...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 3, 2026
Zawwar Sami
preprint
Most philosophical discussions about what it means to be human start after we’ve already divided mind and body. We set up the problem by separating soul from matter, and then spend all our time wondering how the two could possibly connect. But honestly, that misses something important at the very start. Instead of immediately breaking a person into parts, we should stop and ask what sort of...
PsyArXiv
October 3, 2026
Rebekah Senānāyaka
preprint
Ninety percent of human societies practise institutionalised alterations of consciousness. Across independent traditions, communities that develop governed protocols for sustained engagement with non-human organisms produce practitioners whose hybrid consciousness becomes the basis of social authority. Drawing on 27 months of apprenticeship-based fieldwork in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon...
October 3, 2026
Juliana Estévez, David Lameiras, Giancarlo Allocca et al.
preprint
This paper addresses a methodological disparity between meditation research and research involving psychoactive substances. Studies of meditation routinely apply established criteria to distinguish expert practitioners from novices, while research with psychoactive substances screens for safety rather than classifying expertise. We analyze current benchmarking practice in meditation research,...
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne
October 3, 2026
Boris A. Lanin
Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Telluria (2013) off ers a complex exploration of memory and its manipulation within a post-apocalyptic Eurasian landscape, employing a fragmented narrative structure inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s concept of the “montage of attractions.” This study analyzes the mechanisms of memory and forgetting, the function of “attractions” as disruptive narrative devices, and the...
Molecular Psychiatry
October 3, 2026
Xiubo Du, Feiyuan Peng, Xiaohui Wang
Disorders of consciousness (DoC), including coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (also known as vegetative state), and minimally conscious state, represent profound disruptions in awareness and responsiveness due to severe brain injury, with limited therapeutic options available. Recent advancements in neuroimaging have improved our ability to detect residual brain activity in DoC patients,...