American Journal of Applied Psychology
July 22, 2026
Aliyu Kafinga
Peacebuilding interventions continue to yield limited results because conflict analysis remains largely confined to social, political and economic frameworks, neglecting the foundational role of psychological and consciousness dimensions. This article proposes Metaphysical Peace Theory and Spiritual-Structural Transformation (MPT-SST) as a comprehensive applied science that conceptualizes peace...
Journal of Islamic Studies and Civilization
July 21, 2026
Intan Purnama Sari, Fikri Mahzumi, Nur Hidayat Wakhid Udin et al.
Although sama‘ is widely discussed as a Sufi practice, limited research explains how listeners themselves experience and construct inner peace through musical engagement. This study addresses this gap by examining sama‘ as a lived psychospiritual experience rather than as an inherent effect of Sufi music. Using Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, the study screened 34 students of...
July 21, 2026
Marina Saraiva-Mendes, Tristan A Bekinschtein, Barbara Jachs
preprint
In the last two decades, traditional neuroscience has increasingly sought to investigate the so-called neural correlates of conscious states, with a growing scientific interest into contemplative practices such as meditation. Phenomenological accounts of such experiences have likewise been studied in depth, frequently by the use of rating scales or questionnaires. Yet, first- and third-person...
PsyArXiv
July 21, 2026
Peter Lush, Ryan Bradley Scott, Max Lovell et al.
preprint
Phenomenological control is the stable trait ability to alter subjective experience according to one’s goals. Although voluntary, experiences arising from phenomenological control are experienced as involuntary and may be incorrectly attributed to external causes. Such experiences may influence related beliefs about the world. In a large sample preregistered study (n = 497), we tested...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 21, 2026
Jordi Garcia Castillon
preprint
Original philosophical essay presenting a new theoretical framework for artificial minds. This philosophical essay develops an original theoretical framework for understanding artificial minds from a processual, embodied, and non-biocentric perspective. The work argues that mentality should not be defined by biological substrate but by the organization of physically realized, causally...
Psychology of Music
July 21, 2026
Uğur Özalp, Sergen Kaya
This exploratory qualitative study examines how 32 professional musicians in Turkey described flow during live performance, and the conditions they perceived as facilitating or constraining it. Using a qualitative descriptive design with a phenomenological orientation and maximum-variation sampling, we conducted semi-structured interviews immediately after live sets to obtain...
Emotion, space and society
July 21, 2026
Neil Boland
This article explores interiority as a spatial phenomenon in relation to music and spatial experience. While physical spaces are accessible to many, interiority remains a uniquely personal domain; it can also contain an intangible yet real experience of space. This interior landscape exhibits characteristics of physical space: it can be vast or enclosed, illuminated or dark, in constant...
Philosophie – Aufklärung – Kritik
July 21, 2026
Karl Johannes Lierfeld
Qualia – the vivid hues of subjective experience – emerge from an irreversible neural alchemy. Objective sensory data streams into the brain, where amygdala and hippocampus forge it into private phenomenology through profound process dualism. Brain-computer interfaces capture upstream signals with stunning precision yet hit an »epistemic firewall«: the downstream qualia remain sealed, their...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 21, 2026
Adel BEN Mabrouk
preprint
This study investigates the problem of subjective continuity through a comparative analysis of three complementary perspectives: the Bergsonian conception of memory as revisited by Orlander, Antonio Damasio’s neurobiological theory of the self, and a dynamic model of conscious reflexivity grounded in the interaction between memory, self-representation, and feedback processes. While Bergson...
PATISAMBHIDA Jurnal Pemikiran Buddha dan Filsafat Agama
July 20, 2026
Tri Suyatno, Luwes Yuliyana, Aditya Ananda Wibowo et al.
Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan penerapan mindfulness untuk meningkatkan kecerdasan emosionalmahasiswa STABN Raden Wijaya Wonogiri di tengah tekanan akademik dan sosial. Menggunakanmetode kualitatif fenomenologis dengan lima informan, data dikumpulkan melalui wawancara,observasi, dan telaah teks Buddhis (Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta dan Dhammapada) sebagai kerangka reflektif.Hasil menunjukkan bahwa...