Arts
August 20, 2026
Zhilong Yan, Manyi Pei
This study examines the mediumistic paintings of Guo Fengyi (郭鳳怡 1942–2010) through the lens of Daoist inner contemplation (neiguan 內觀) and traditional Chinese medicine. Guo developed distinctive self-cultivation techniques, including Ziran Chaoneng Gong (自然超能功 Natural Superpower Qigong), Qi’e Gong (企鵝功 Penguin Qigong 氣功), and Liu Ling Shuzi Gong (劉陵數字功 Liu Ling Numerology Qigong), which...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 20, 2026
Atakan Selte, Steven E. Haworth, Thomas J. Vanasse et al.
preprint
Abstract Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Using overnight 256-electrode high-density EEG in 140 participants and a serial-awakening paradigm, we analyzed 699 non-rapid eye...
Journal of Neurology Research Review & Reports
August 19, 2026
Surendra Singh Pokharna
In a previous paper published on Shatavdhan (Surendra Singh Pokharna (2023), it was postulated that Shatavdhan could be a new state of consciousness. Actually, Shatavdhan is a Sanskrit word which consists of two parts. Shat means one hundred and Avadhan means sharp attention deep concentration and extra ordinary memory of the brain. In this phenomenon, the practitioner observes or is a part of...
International Journal of Islamic Thought and Humanities
August 19, 2026
Andi Mustopa, Moh. Mahfud Ali Amari Sya’roni, Ahmad Mukhlish Sirojuddin et al.
This research examines the spiritual experiences of Umrah pilgrims at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and identifies ideal jurisprudential practices (kaifiyah) for worship in Raudhah, at the Prophet's tomb, and during Arbain prayer through the lens of hadith understanding. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach with participatory observation, this study explores how pilgrims...
Logica Universalis
August 19, 2026
Purushottama Bilimoria
1 citation
Abstract Jaina concern with epistemological issues has two main functions: (i) provide basis for an intelligible discourse on matters of common, everyday experience; (ii) demarcate this area from what constitutes the knowledge of the ‘ultimates’ of reality. In other words, what is it that we know, and how do we know what we believe we have come to know? These are, of course, standard...
Culture Crossroads
August 19, 2026
Ugіs Kletnieks
Time is a fundamental dimension of experience, yet neuroscience suggests that the subjective flow of time is an active neural construction rather than a passive reflection of physical reality [Buonomano 2017]. Here, I propose the “Neural Grammars of Time” – a unifying framework explaining how distributed neural architectures transform physical signals into a structured temporal phenomenology. I...
bioRxiv
August 19, 2026
D. Momi, Yasmeen Nahas, D. Wyrick et al.
preprint
Psilocybin produces rapid and lasting therapeutic effects, yet how 5-HT2A receptor activation reshapes brain-wide circuit dynamics during acute drug administration remains poorly understood. Using simultaneous multi-region Neuropixels recordings of 46,360 single units from 35 mice, together with scalp electroencephalography (EEG), pupillometry, and locomotion monitoring, we provide a...
Proa Revista de Antropologia e Arte
August 19, 2026
Susan Elizabeth Rocha
This research addresses visionary practices in contemporary Ecuadorian art, focusing on their relationship with the ritual ingestion of San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) and Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi). From a perspective grounded in animist ontologies, which understand nature as a vast web of interconnected beings with interiority, the study analyzes how these master plants function as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 18, 2026
Touraj Banirostam
preprint
This preprint constitutes Phase III of the Rethinking Mind research project, a historical and conceptual investigation of changing approaches to mind, cognition, and intelligence. The paper reconstructs the development of phenomenology from Edmund Husserl through Martin Heidegger to Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It argues that phenomenology expanded the appropriate unit of analysis for understanding...
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
August 18, 2026
Stefan Anderson
preprint
Holistic Emergence presents a structural dual‑aspect ontology in which biological organization actualizes the internal, proto‑phenomenal potential inherent in physical structure. The model rejects reductive physicalism, universal panpsychism, and functionalist accounts of mind. Instead, it proposes that phenomenality is neither ubiquitous nor reducible but emerges holistically when a physical...