Journal of Scientific Exploration
September 29, 2026
Paul F. Cunningham
This two-part essay addressed a two-part question: “If extraterrestrial life exists, then where are they?” and “Is interdimensional travel possible and, if so, how?” Drawing upon the insights of Jane Roberts’s philosophical psychology, the following thesis is advanced and defended: Alternate life planes and reality systems exist and make contact with the spacetime structure of our own physical...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
September 29, 2026
Jenny Moix, Claudia Rodríguez Rodríguez
Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are vivid and extraordinary events that may lead to psychological transformation, though not all individuals who report them undergo lasting change. This qualitative study explores when and how OBEs become transformative. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten healthy adults who had experienced spontaneous OBEs. Thematic analysis focused on three...
Verbum Vitae
September 29, 2026
Piotr Pasterczyk
This article examines the nature of Christian spiritual experience in light of Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being. Historically, spiritual experience can be understood in terms of either intellectual form or the practical exercise of love of neighbor. Following Stein, the article identifies intellectual form as the source of spiritual experience, which not only proceeds from the Christian...
September 29, 2026
Wiesław L Galus, Janusz A. Starzyk
Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) is one of the most extensively developed empirical research programmes on access consciousness. By contrast, the Motivated Emotional Mind (MEM) model proposes an embodied, semi-hierarchical associative memory in which representational selection, action, recurrent reconstruction of modality-specific fields, interoception, and valence form a single...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
September 29, 2026
Naoyuki Katagiri, Hiromi Tagata, Takashi Uchino et al.
Background In psychopathology, schizophrenia has been understood as a disorder characterized by disturbances in subjective consciousness. Subjective consciousness and its relationship to interactions between internal representations and external events have been discussed in phenomenology. Recent computational neuroscience conceptualizes the brain as an inferential system that minimizes...
September 29, 2026
Helen Molden
A twentieth-century philosopher and phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty placed the human body at the centre of his explorations around the self, other, and world. Using this fundamental tenet, this chapter explores how three aspects of his lived body “ corps vécu” approach prove useful for the therapist with lived experience of disability in collaborative work and navigating clinical practice. These...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 29, 2026
Adonis Liranza Diaz
preprint
This article proposes a conceptual reconstruction of the Yorùbá principle Orí, not as an ancient theory of consciousness, but as a philosophical operator for the non-spatial localization of a perspective. Once spacetime is defundamentalized as an ontological primitive, localization ceases to be a position in space and becomes instead a restriction of possible relations. Within this framework,...
Journal of the history of the neurosciences
September 29, 2026
Emmanuel Drouin
Contemporary neuroscience often presents modern theories of consciousness as products of the cognitive revolution and computational neuroscience. Yet several neurophysiologists before and during the early cybernetic period had already developed sophisticated physiological models of conscious states grounded in bodily regulation, autonomic integration, hypothalamic function and global neural...
Journal of Scientific Exploration
September 29, 2026
César Augustus Fernandes
The beneficial effects of meditation have attracted increasing scientific interest, particularly regarding the mechanisms through which this ancient practice may contribute to health recovery and maintenance. Nevertheless, despite the broad range of benefits attributed to meditative practices, the literature also reports numerous unusual experiences related to meditation. This study describes...
Addiction
September 29, 2026
Sharon R. Sznitman, Surendra Tiwari
Abstract: Aims: ‘Mad honey’ is produced when bees collect nectar from Rhododendron species containing grayanotoxins, naturally occurring diterpenoid toxins that can produce dose‐dependent intoxication. It has long been embedded in Nepalese medicinal and ritual practices but has recently become part of global psychedelic discourse. This study examined how globally circulating discourse and local...