This paper introduces the Projected Stabilization Thesis, a conceptual and methodological framework for reinterpreting consciousness as a biologically constrained stabilization of organismic regulation. Rather than treating consciousness as an inner foundation, metaphysical origin, or detached observer, the paper argues that consciousness may be understood as an access-field in which bodily...
While contemporary psychology focuses on developing a cohesive self for wellbeing, Indian philosophical traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism and the teachings of J. Krishnamurti provide a critique of the notion of a fixed self-identity. This conceptual paper compares them at a phenomenological and functional level and relates these comparisons to contemplative neuroscience, particularly...
In this paper, we propose a trans-materialist information-theoretical approach to a full spectrum of conscious experience, from its normative embodied mode as part of an integrated brain/mind system to altered modes of consciousness, including nonlocal and near-death experiences (NDE). It allows for bridging the Cartesian gap and resolving the “hard problem” of non-material mind arising from...
We aim to explore and qualitatively compare individuals’ experiences of mental imagery during waking and dreaming consciousness in order to understand how these states are similar and different in phenomenological structure, focusing on the sensory modalities that are different or common between states. Additionally, we seek to better understand how absent or low waking visual imagery might...
Time is typically treated as an unexamined background for intelligence. This paper inverts that perspective by asking what becomes of intelligence when the conditions that enable intelligent processes are progressively stripped away. We construct two minimal models of intelligence—a functional model derived from philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, and an abstract...
The paper is Article 2 of the Pali-Psycho series. It extends the empirical comparison axis of Article 1 into a broader systematic-exegetical framework: Abhidhamma taxonomy, Satipatthana and Anapanasati practice architecture, Jhana phenomenology, dependent origination, sociology of the Sangha, theology, literary reception, and modern cognitive-scientific comparison points. The central result is...
This paper identifies a structural deficiency in Radical Enactivism called ‘the Content-Binding Problem’. REC distinguishes sharply between contentless basic cognition and content-involving sociolinguistic practices. This separation creates a difficulty in explaining how disparate cognitive formats integrate into a coherent whole. The integration process is often invisible during healthy...
Abstract Suicide among individuals under probation supervision constitutes a significant concern within public health and criminal justice systems, owing to rates that consistently exceed those observed in the general population. Conventional approaches to suicide prevention primarily emphasise clinical interventions, psychological risk assessments, and multi-agency collaboration. In contrast,...
Objective: To investigate meditation-related psychological adverse effects, challenging, unpleasant, and negative experiences (MRPAEs) across meditative development and specifically advanced meditation, an emerging domain in contemplative science that remains understudied despite its potential for radically positively transforming, and in some cases destabilizing, mental health. Design: A...
Mimbar Agama BudayaJuly 5, 2026Edi Priyono, Euis Dewi Yuliana, I Putu Sarjana et al.
Character education increasingly draws on religious and contemplative practices, yet how repeated ritual practice becomes internalized as character remains underexplored. This study examines character formation through chanting practice among students at the Institut Nalanda Jakarta dormitory by integrating Kelman’s theory of attitude change with the Abhidhamma perspective. Using a qualitative...