Abstract Background As psychedelic therapies advance toward regulatory approval worldwide, significant questions arise about the adequacy of traditional evidence hierarchies for evaluating these complex interventions. Psychedelic-assisted therapies combine pharmacological, psychological, contextual, and phenomenological elements that challenge conventional randomized controlled trial (RCT)...
Autofiction is often considered a generic hybrid, combining autobiographical and fictional modes. This essay argues that many autofictional texts are interdisciplinary hybrids, too. Especially from the second half of the twentieth century onwards, autofictional texts often constitute profound theoretical engagements with the notions of self and identity-construction, and with questions of...
The Yoga Vasistha (Moksopaya), among the most psychologically sophisticated works of Indian philosophy, teaches that experienced worlds are mind-made, that latent impressions (vasana) sustain suffering, that disciplined imagination (bhavana) and self-effort can dissolve them, and that liberation is available in life (jivanmukti). Modern hypnotherapy - whose founding doctrine of suggestion...
NEW & NOTEWORTHY The Chicken Coop Theory formalizes arousal as a position in a six-dimensional neuromodulatory state space rather than a switch controlled by any single system. Histaminergic latching, cholinergic warming, noradrenergic startling, dopaminergic dispensing, serotonergic nesting, and orexinergic anchoring are each grounded in a functional invariant, and six canonical clinical...
This paper takes as its starting point a recurring feature of Qur’anic vocabulary: verses that consistentlyassociate the faculties of reasoning (‘aql) and understanding with the heart (qalb), and verses that as-sociate genuine, efficacious hearing (sam‘) with consciousness or wakefulness (wa‘y), often placingthe two faculties in relations of equivalence, exchange, or causal dependence rather...
A foundational problem in physics remains unresolved: the role of the conscious observer in quantum measurement. This paper develops a theoretical framework, the Silence Paradigm, that generates testable predictions bearing on that problem. It treats the observer's state of consciousness as a controlled experimental variable rather than as a philosophical assumption, and asks whether the...
ABSTRACT Background Vision science has established precedent for examining unusual visual experiences, including hypnosis‐induced color perception, synesthetic phenomena, and meditative states. Such cases can provide insights into post‐retinal visual processing mechanisms. Methods This study presents a phenomenological analysis of visual experiences reported in the writings of Chiara Lubich...
This study aimed to explore how mindfulness is perceived and experienced by teachers and to develop and validate the Mindfulness in School Scale (MSS) for use in school settings. An exploratory sequential mixed methods design was employed. In the qualitative phase, phenomenological interviews were conducted with 23 teachers selected through purposive maximum variation sampling. Content analysis...
Damage to the primary visual cortex causes loss of conscious vision, yet some patients retain the ability to respond to stimuli despite reporting no visual experience. Why similar lesions produce such different behavioral phenotypes remains unclear. While research to date has focused primarily on spared pathways that bypass V1, here we asked whether these divergent outcomes are also linked to...
BackgroundTrauma recovery among tribal adolescent girls and young women in Northeast India remains poorly understood, particularly for those with dissociative disorders. Existing frameworks rely on Western paradigms that do not account for the cultural, spiritual, and environmental realities of tribal communities.MethodsUsing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), this study examined...