International Journal of Sanskrit Research
September 1, 2026
Swapan Samanta
The Ardhanārīśvara form has been read theologically as a statement about divine completeness, philosophically as a non-dual metaphysics of Prakāśa and Vimarśa, and ideologically as a symbol of gender complementarity. This paper proposes an additional interpretive register: reading the form as a practitioner-centred diagram of liberation, in which the relation between bounded identity and the...
Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative
September 1, 2026
Zhuo Job Chen, Kelsey Julian, Michael J. Persin et al.
Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) provides a framework for understanding the integration of psychological, neural, endocrine, and immune processes, yet it has rarely engaged non-Western models of mind–body regulation. This study examines Zhanzhuang (aka Chan-chuang), a Daoist standing meditation centered on the cultivation of qi, as a potential PNEI intervention. We present the protocol...
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
September 1, 2026
Yiyan Jiang
ABSTRACT This study re‐examines Alexander Wendt's quantum consciousness theory, arguing that the explanatory aims attributed to quantum consciousness—particularly with respect to agency, teleology, intentionality and emergence—can be addressed more coherently within established nonquantum frameworks of self‐organisation theory. Drawing on thermodynamics, complexity theory and autopoietic...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
September 1, 2026
Fikret Poyraz Çökmüş, Zeynep Tiftikçi, Osman İyilikçi et al.
Metacognition and mindfulness are central to contemporary accounts of anxiety, yet their comparative profiles across social anxiety disorder (SAD) and panic disorder (PD) remain insufficiently defined. The objective of this study is to compare metacognition and mindfulness across SAD, PD and healthy controls (HC) and to examine how these processes predict disorder specific severity. Adults with...
Annual review of vision science
September 2026
Michael A Cohen
Visual experience feels seamless and complete, yet evidence shows that a surprising amount of information regularly goes unnoticed. Three of the largest bottlenecks constraining visual processing include retinal sampling, cortical organization, and attentional selection. The perceptual consequences of these bottlenecks are revealed by phenomena such as inattentional blindness and visual...
Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion
September 1, 2026
Ronald E. Purser
Based on a spooky first encounter with ChatGPT, I argue that AI is not an alien intelligence, but a machine-like mirror that reflects back our own limited ways of knowing. I draw upon Paul Kingsnorth’s metaphor of “the Machine” and Shannon Vallor’s “AI Mirror,” as well as the ancient Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy and Tarthang Tulku’s Time, Space, and Knowledge vision. Through the lens of these...
Philosophy Compass
September 1, 2026
Ege Yumuşak
ABSTRACT Phenomenal salience is the experiential contribution of attention to how things seem; namely, the character of perceptual experience. Two aspects of phenomenal salience have been of interest to philosophers. The first is about the uniformity of the phenomenology of perceptual salience. This aspect concerns how salience organizes objects of experience. The second is about the...
International Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Studies
September 1, 2026
Vidhi Sharma, VT Sebastian
The philosophy of Swami Sivananda presents a comprehensive and integrative framework for understanding inner awakening as a transformative process leading to the evolution of consciousness. Rooted in Advaita Vedānta yet deeply practical in orientation, his teachings emphasize the purification of mind, ethical discipline, and the synthesis of yogic paths as essential means to realize the unity...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 1, 2026
Amrita Dutta
preprint
Abstract: This study presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical symbolism and aesthetic consciousness of Nataraja in Gopal Krishna Bharti’s Carnatic composition Natanam Adinar and Rabindranath Tagore’s Nrityero Tale Tale. Rooted in the Tamil Shaiva bhakti tradition and the Chidambara Rahasya, Bharti portrays Shiva’s Ananda Tandava and Panchakritya as dynamic manifestations of divine...
Cortex
September 1, 2026
Elisabetta Colombari, Giorgia Parisi, Sonia Mele et al.
Disclosing the brain areas responsible for the emergence of visual awareness and their timing of activation represents one of the major challenges in consciousness research. In particular, isolating the neural processes strictly related to consciousness from concurrent neural dynamics, either related to prerequisites or post-perceptual processing, has long engaged consciousness research. In...