International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 12, 2026
Elias Rubenstein
Structured practices in ritual and contemplative settings often claim reliable change through formal protocols, disciplined attention, prior alignment, and staged calibration. Debate commonly polarizes between extraordinary causation and generic expectancy accounts. This paper offers a third option: a methodological framework that treats such practices as informational interventions acting on...
Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Especializada de las Américas
August 11, 2026
Yanelis Celena Atencio
Mindfulness como Herramienta para el Manejo de la Ansiedad Precompetitiva en un Equipo de Voleibol. El objetivo primordial de este estudio es examinar qué tan bien funciona un programa de intervención de mindfulness para atenuar la ansiedad que sienten los deportistas adultos antes de competir. Esta indagación surge de la imperiosa necesidad de cuidar la salud mental en el mundo del deporte,...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
August 11, 2026
SJ Cowan
Abstract This essay develops an account of aesthetic form. Aesthetic form is not a matter of genre, style, or presentation, but the organization of appearance in which ordinary orientation breaks down and becomes a claim on thought. It requires a discipline of preserving both resistance and surrender in the face of what disturbs sense. Written in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Alva...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 11, 2026
Ngo Cheung
Quantum approaches to consciousness remain controversial, partly because any putative quantum state in the brain is expected to decohere rapidly in a warm, hydrated, and noisy environment. The present manuscript does not attempt to solve that biological problem directly. Instead, it treats microtubule-related interpretation as a deliberately hypothetical analogy and asks a narrower Level-A...
OSF Preprints
August 11, 2026
Destiny Hankerson
preprint
This is a working paper I created about how near-death experiences can help scientists become more open to studying other spiritually transformative experiences.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 11, 2026
Michael Timothy Bennett
preprint
Global Workspace Theory has failed to prove that broadcast is necessary or sufficient for human-like reportable access consciousness. Either broadcast is just availability to reasoning, memory, action and speech, in which case it is a renaming and not a mechanism, or it is a workspace architecture that has not been shown necessary for that availability. To resolve this, I construct direct...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 10, 2026
Sheila L Macrine
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has intensified a long-standing feature of human cognition: the attribution of agency, intention, and understanding to nonhuman systems. People describe language models, virtual assistants, and autonomous technologies as if these systems know, decide, want, or understand, and they continue to do so even when they know the...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
August 10, 2026
D. Beasley
Prior work in computational psychiatry has identified three failure modes of precision weighting that produce the phenomenology of individual-level psychosis: aberrant precision on priors, aberrant precision on sensory likelihood, and aberrant meta-precision. The coupled, dyadic case has remained outside this framework. We identify a fourth failure mode, dyadic precision migration, in which...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Chris Gabriel
preprint
This theoretical and phenomenological paper proposes a revisionary account of Jung’s shadow. Rather than locating the shadow primarily within an unconscious domain, it argues that shadow phenomena may arise within consciousness itself when phenomenally present experience exceeds, contradicts, or is distorted by the autobiographical self-model. The paper develops a four-layer...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 10, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
preprint
Zenodo Description This paper presents an integrated philosophical-psychological model based on four interconnected concepts: Karma and Result, Eligibility, Contentment, and Transformation of Consciousness. The paper proposes that the relationship between action and result should not be understood solely through linear time, but through a process of maturation. It distinguishes between...