Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
October 9, 2026
Justin Echternach
We synthesize convergent experimental evidence from five independent research groups (2016–2025) addressing the longstanding “too warm, too wet” objection to quantum biology. Three recent experiments (2024–2025) demonstrate: (i) Wang et al. measured enhanced dielectric response and proton conductivity in nanoconfined water at 295 K, establishing extreme in-plane Coulomb screening at 1–2 nm;...
JME Practical Bioethics
October 9, 2026
Katherine Cheung, Edward Jacobs, David B. Yaden
Psychedelics—psychoactive substances that have characteristic effects on perception, cognition and mood—are attracting renewed clinical and policy attention for their potential to treat a range of conditions. Various ethical tensions are present in psychedelic clinical trials due to several characteristics of psychedelics and the psychedelic experience, including acute alterations of...
Illness Crisis & Loss
October 8, 2026
Ruth Parkes
Hypnagogic and hypnopompic (H&H) events are sleep phenomena which occur at the borders of consciousness between falling asleep and beginning to wake. There is limited qualitative exploration of the nature of these experiences, and no studies have yet been conducted specifically with accident survivors who go on to experience H&H events. The current paper uses Interpretative Phenomenological...
'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
October 8, 2026
Álvaro Trigo Maldonado
This article analyzes the intersection between Buddhism and artificial intelligence through a reading of Redimeidu bosang (2004) by Park Seonghwan, a Korean science fiction story in which a robot attains enlightenment in a Buddhist temple. Beyond understanding technology as a tool within religious practice, the study explores how speculative fiction reconfigures the conceptual boundaries...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
Mantras constitute one of the oldest and most widespread contemplative technologies inhuman history, present in traditions as diverse as Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism,and Theravada Buddhism. This article examines three mantras — So Ham, Om AhHum, and Buddho — through an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates traditionalphilosophical sources, neurophysiological studies, and clinical...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
October 8, 2026
Anthony L. Back, Cynthia J. Price, Bonnie A. Mcgregor et al.
Cancer patients arrive for psilocybin therapy with bodies altered by illness and treatment — bodies that they have learned to brace against, dissociate from, or scan for threat. Research on psilocybin-assisted therapy for cancer-related depression and anxiety consistently identifies the quality of the acute subjective experience — reflected in constructs such as acceptance, surrender,...
Quest Journal of Management and Social Sciences
October 7, 2026
Udaya Raj Paudel
Background: Romantic literary scholarship has increasingly examined the relationship between Romantic imagination and British imperial expansion, yet the material role of colonial commodities in shaping metropolitan consciousness remains comparatively underexplored. Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater provides a significant site for examining this relationship because its...
The Problem of "The World"
October 7, 2026
Avner Baz
Abstract: Still focusing on magnitudes, this chapter extends the transcendental idealist argument to the level of pre-objective perceptual experience. Following Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, it argues that ‘the phenomenal world’—the world as perceived and responded to, or engaged with, prior to becoming (if and when it does) the object of true or false representations—makes essential reference...
International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management
October 7, 2026
Aditi Mishra, Vibha Goyal, Ankush Gautam
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has created relationships that are not adequately described as merely functional interactions between users and tools. Conversational systems, social robots and autonomous agents can be trusted, loved, relied upon and even moralized. Questions arise here about the nature of consciousness, about a psychological foundation...
Open Access at Essex
October 7, 2026
Rohan J Naidoo
This research addresses the central complex of how the relationship between the sacred and sexual is problematised and plays out over the course of individuation. Jung articulated it as core to his relationship with Freud breaking down, describing a split between the secular (which becomes sexualised) and the spiritual (which becomes desexualised). Such a division can be understood, via a...