This paper contributes to the philosophical literature on the relationship between contemporary physics and premodern theological cosmology by examining a specific test case: the Islamic and Bahá'í doctrine of 'álam al-mithál, the "imaginal realm" situated ontologically between the intelligible and the sensible. After reconstructing the doctrine's development from Ibn 'Arabī and Suhrawardī...
How the human brain generates subjective bodily experience remains a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. The cingulate cortex and precuneus (CC/PCu) have been implicated in bodily awareness and self-related processing, yet the functional architecture and causal relevance of these regions and the circuit mechanisms supporting conscious bodily states remain unclear. Here, we combined...
When a felt sense is genuinely attended to, it responds. This paper introduces Felt Sense Dynamics, a phenomenological, practice-based framework that names and maps that response across five recurring phases: Steadying, Strengthening, Spreading, Shifting, and Softening, collectively referred to as the Five S’s. Gendlin’s concept of the felt shift names the destination of somatic processing;...
Social acceleration is not an accidental feature of contemporary societies but the organizing principle of a modernity that must continuously increase its rates of production, change, and innovation in order to sustain its own conditions of existence. This article examines whether qualitatively different temporalities can be produced within this structure, allowing for a relationship with time...
Abstract Paulo Coelho's Hippie (2018) reimagines his own passage across the 1970s “Magic Bus” route from Amsterdam to Kathmandu as a hybrid of memoir and myth, folding autobiography into a narrative of spiritual seeking. This essay argues that the novel uses the physical itinerary of the historical Hippie Trail to stage an internal itinerary, in which the countercultural rejection of Western...
This paper develops a novel account of minimal-dual awareness as a disciplined epistemic method that systematically alters the access conditions of consciousness to reveal structures of temporality and cognition. Building on an Existential Realism (ER) framework, we argue that conventional, detached cognition often conflates reality with existence and thereby obscures the special role of the...
This article examines the neuroscientific evidence for states corresponding to Samadhi as described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Advaita Vedanta (Turiya, the fourth state). Seven confirmed neuroscientific findings: (1) Default mode network (DMN) deactivation in deep meditators — Judson Brewer (Brown University) and colleagues: experienced meditators show dramatic DMN suppression...
is study offers a comparative cross-sectional analysis of multiple meditation techniques and their association with psychological well-being and self-reported states of consciousness.[1] By surveying over 400 individuals, the authors report that meditation practices, particularly Heartfulness and heart-based Dhyan, are associated with improved well-being and deeper experiential states.While...
This article develops a Wilberian Three-Eyes hermeneutic approach to interpreting past-life narratives in hypnotic regression. Positioned as a conceptual-hermeneutic narrative review, it does not seek to prove reincarnation, verify postmortem survival, or establish hypnotic regression as a clinical intervention. Instead, it examines such narratives as symbolic, phenomenological, and...
Individuals around the world report nonordinary experiences that stand out to them compared to their day-to-day or ordinary experiences. Yet, they can be appraised in very different ways, resulting in wellbeing and personal growth, or in marginalization and mental health problems. One challenge is that there are relatively few systematic efforts to explore possible appraisal processes and the...