Pharos Journal of Theology
July 30, 2026
Saltanat Alimkulova, Nurlan Kairbekov, Zaure Malgarayeva
This study examines the doctrinal and metaphysical role of Sufism in shaping religious consciousness in Central Asia, with particular attention to its Qur’anic, prophetic, and regional textual foundations. The research is based on a qualitative analysis of a purposively selected corpus of 13 sacred, theological, and Sufi sources, including Qur’anic translations, hadith collections, and major...
PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL
July 30, 2026
Ivan Danyliuk, Nataliia Burkalo
Background. In modern psychology, mindfulness is regarded as a multidimensional psychological phenomenon associated with the deliberate direction of attention to present-moment experience, an open, accepting, and non-judgmental attitude toward that experience, the development of self-regulation and psychological flexibility, and a reduction in automatic emotional and behavioral reactivity....
Neuroscience of Consciousness
July 30, 2026
Tommaso Ciorli, O. MacGregor, Martin Nilsson et al.
Abstract Self-related cues, most notably one’s own face, are highly salient and confer processing advantages at both conscious and unconscious levels. Whether such self-related information and stimulus salience modulate the earliest electroencephalography (EEG) correlate of visual awareness, the visual awareness negativity (VAN), remains unknown. In this study, we examined whether self-related...
International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology
July 30, 2026
Dharmendra Das
This article explores the linguistic monism of the fifth-century philosopher-grammarian Bhartṛhari, focusing on how his foundational text, the Vākyapadīya, elevates Sanskrit grammar (Vyākaraṇa) into a rigorous metaphysical system. Central to Bhartṛhari’s philosophy is the assertion that the ultimate reality is Śabda-Brahman (the Word-Absolute), which manifests into the material universe through...
Cogent Arts and Humanities
July 30, 2026
Riya Dutta, Seema Singh, Indranil Acharya
This essay examines faith healing in the select texts of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud (2016) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (2016) as a spiritual and ecological practice that extends beyond the biomedical paradigm of healing. By analyzing both texts, the study foregrounds how narratives of healing are embedded in the ecological consciousness of the oral traditions. Faith healing...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 30, 2026
Lena Erdmann, Barbara Breitenstein, Maria Badanova et al.
BackgroundResearch suggests that high ventilation breathwork (HVB) improves mental health by reducing experiential avoidance (EA) through altered states of consciousness (ASCs). The present study examined whether EA during participants’ most recent breathwork session predicted mental well-being afterward. Additionally, the study examined the relationships between EA, ASCs, emotional...
Research Square
July 29, 2026
Larissa Hartle, Ronald Fischer
preprint
Abstract Experiences that resemble symptoms of psychosis or dissociation in clinical research do not necessarily impair daily functioning and may instead be interpreted within religious or spiritual frameworks. However, the extent to which such interpretations influence perceived life impact remains unclear. Distinguishing phenomenological experiences from their spiritual or religious...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
July 29, 2026
Jonathan Simon
This paper asks: if large language models (LLMs) gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, what would it be like? I argue that if LLMs gave rise to phenomenal consciousness, it would be like being an impartial, improvising playwright rather than a character or a (roleplaying) actor or an author writing a first-personal narrative. My argument has three steps. I first argue that if LLMs give rise to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 29, 2026
Eve Mcnaghten
preprint
Although conscious connected breathwork (CCB) continues to grow in popularity as a practice used for nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and emotional well-being, little is known about how its effects and experiences may vary across the menstrual cycle. Existing research indicates that breathwork, including different conscious connected breathwork (CCB) techniques, can influence...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
July 29, 2026
Yukiko Tsuji, Miyuki Azuma, Camille Lépingle et al.
Abstract The rubber hand illusion (RHI) provides a powerful paradigm for probing the malleability of bodily self-consciousness. While conventional studies rely on proprioceptive drift, questionnaires, or averaged neural measures, phenomenological research suggests that the RHI unfolds through multiple subjective state transitions rather than as a simple binary phenomenon. Participants often...