Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Ana María Cáseres Andrade, Benito Mecías Coyago Inga, Walter Paul Sampedro Teneda et al.
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La lectora constituye una barrera en el aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera, debido a su influencia sobre la ansiedad, la comprensión, la motivación y la regulación emocional. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar los cambios en los niveles de ansiedad lectora después de aplicar ejercicios de mindfulness integrados a actividades de lectura en estudiantes de Eduplanet SAS. Se empleó...
International Journal of Dream Research
August 25, 2026
Michael Schredl
Erotic dreams are quite common, however, measuring the frequency of such a private topic faces some challenges. First, not every participant might be comfortable to report erotic dreams in dream diary, thus, the frequency of erotic dreams might be underestimations. On the other hand, retrospective measures regarding the frequency of erotic dreams might yield overestimations as erotic dreams are...
Science and Engineering Ethics
August 25, 2026
Yi-Yi Yang, Linfan Zhu
The moral status of simulated entities in virtual reality remains an open and urgent ethical question. Existing approaches tie moral status to consciousness, but consciousness is not directly observable, and the hard problem forecloses any near-term empirical resolution. Drawing on Birch’s (2024) precautionary framework, this paper argues that what is needed is not a better theory of...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICE
August 25, 2026
Gabriel Adedayo Idogbe
This paper critically reassesses the epistemic relationship between religion and science, examining whether they function as competitors, allies, or differentiated yet complementary domains of inquiry. It situates the discussion historically, demonstrating that episodes of tension often reflect disputes over authority rather than evidence alone. The analysis distinguishes methodological...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Two companion papers examined the Western scientific and Buddhist analyses of consciousness separately. This paper puts them together and argues that the common framing is wrong: across much of their range the traditions address different questions sharing an English word. The argument maps referents. Consciousness science divides its object into level, content, access, and phenomenality,...
Voice of History
August 25, 2026
Ram Kumar Rai
Shamanism generally refers to indigenous ritual systems involving relationships between humans and spiritual or non-human realms, often associated with healing, spirit mediation, trance, and altered states of consciousness. In the Khambu worldview of eastern Nepal, Dowang refers to an indigenous ritual institution associated with ancestral calling, sacred knowledge, and the transmission of...
Virtual Reality
August 25, 2026
Liat Abouhav, Keren Nitzan, Ravid Doron
Abstract As mental health challenges continue to rise, there is increasing interest in interventions that promote psychological change through emotionally and experientially rich states. One well-studied example involves mystical-type experiences, typically reported in psychedelic-assisted interventions. Virtual reality (VR), with its immersive and embodied qualities, has emerged as a promising...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
August 25, 2026
Wolfgang Emanuel Zürrer, Johann Liesner, David Brüschweiler et al.
, is a highly selective κ-opioid receptor agonist and a rare example of a κ-opioid receptor-mediated psychedelic drug. Preclinical work of salvinorin A has shown promising effects in neuropsychiatric animal models. However, human studies remain heterogeneous and fragmented, highlighting the need for synthesis. Thus, we conducted a systematic review to synthesize available human studies of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
Kevin Rauter
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This thesis investigates the mescaline experience as a peculiar and radical form of phenomenological reduction. It begins by examining the constitution of the human lived world through Wittgenstein's concept of Weltbild and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and embodiment. The argument distinguishes between a pre-predicative, perceptual “first world” and a linguistically and...
Journal for person-oriented research
August 24, 2026
Lars‐gunnar Lundh
In this book, Metzinger develops a theory of pure consciousness, while presenting empirical findings from more than 500 experiential reports from practitioners of meditation. Pure consciousness is what we experience when we attend to awareness itself – when attention is refocused to the normally unnoticed medium through which we experience the world. The practice of meditation is likely to...