Trends in General Medicine
August 31, 2026
Ungar-Sargon MD PhD Julian
Between 1990 and 1996 a loose confederation of poets, analysts, and storytellers — Robert Bly, James Hillman, Martín Prechtel, and Michael Meade — conducted large residential gatherings in North America and Britain that proposed initiation, imagination, grief, and myth as remedies for a culture they judged to be soul-starved. This essay is a retrospective assessment of that movement by a...
Steiniana revista de estudios interdisciplinarios
August 31, 2026
Marco Cavallaro
This article examines virtual experience from a Husserlian phenomenological perspective. For Husserl, phenomenology is the intentional analysis of conscious experiences. The question that arises is therefore: what kind of experience is virtual experience? The article is experimental in nature in that it proposes a series of hypotheses to answer this question, which are gradually disproved by...
PsyArXiv
August 31, 2026
Rony Hirschhorn, Niccolò Negro, Liad Mudrik
preprint
Determining which entities deserve moral consideration is crucial to policy debates about animal welfare and artificial intelligence regulation. A common assumption is that consciousness is a key criterion for moral status, often considered to be necessary or sufficient for it. However, it is unclear whether public attitudes also share this assumption. In a large, preregistered study (N=1493),...
Journal of Advanced Research in Education
August 31, 2026
Evgeny Bryndin
The exploratory potential of the mental sensitivity of the Universe is revealed through the brain, as an intermediary between consciousness and the internal reality of a person and his external perceived environment using a set of methods that expand human perception. The exploratory potential of consciousness in the context of the scientific reflection of the Universe is an interdisciplinary...
Preprints.org
August 31, 2026
Tahir Rahman
preprint
Delusions occur in disorders with markedly different etiologies, including schizophrenia, medication-induced psychosis, postpartum psychosis, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic encephalopathy. This convergence poses a basic clinical problem: the phenomenology of a delusion may provide limited information about the mechanism that produced it or the prognosis that follows. This article...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
preprint
The philosophy of perception---the philosophy whose subject is the seeing mind and whose battleground is the object's givenness---moved from Berkeley's 1709 vision and Reid's 1764 common sense through Helmholtz's 1867 sensations, Russell's 1914 sense-data, and Moore's 1939 hands to Sellars's 1956 myth, Austin's 1962 sensibilia, and McDowell's 1994 world. This article presents a narrative review...
August 31, 2026
Subhas Mitra
This book explores the connection between ancient Hindu philosophy and the modern worlds of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Using concepts such as the Trigunas—Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas—it examines human consciousness, conditioning, self-awareness, and the influence of history on our thinking. Through metaphors of data, malware, memory, and source code, the book encourages...
August 31, 2026
Ariel Meir Berlinger, Baruch Eitam
Consciousness is often treated as unitary phenomenon. We challenge this and propose a framework that parses it into two functionally distinct representational media. Reviewing dominant theories, as well as studies of perceptual failures, neural activity, visual search and attention – we argue that phenomenal experience arises early as a detailed, analogue, and relatively generic representation...
The Criterion An International Journal in English
August 31, 2026
Abhik Ganguly, Prerna Malhotra
Saundaryalaharī, the hundred-verse hymn, is traditionally attributed to Ādi Śaṅkaracārya.At the intersection of Śākta Tantra and Advaita Vedānta, a unique position is occupied by this hymn.This hymn extols the Divine Mother as dynamic Śakti, without which Śiva is inactive.Simultaneously, Nirguna Brahman as the Ultimate Reality is upheld by Advaita Vedānta.Ānanda Lahari, the first section of the...
International Journal of Nusantara Islam
August 31, 2026
M. Dewangga Widhia, Muhtar Solihin, Dody S. Truna et al.
This study investigates I'jaz Ta'thiri, understood as the miraculous or transformative influence of the Qur’an, within the perspective of the Living Quran, particularly through the subjective experiences of patients undergoing Ruqyah Shar'iyyah in Bandung, West Java. Employing a qualitative research design and phenomenological approach, the study explores how individuals from different social...