This study aims to disclose the meaning of religious experience in the creative practice of Wayang Tantri through the phenomenological perspective of Merleau-Ponty. Employing a qualitative approach grounded in library research and hermeneutic analysis, the study demonstrates that the creativity of Wayang Tantri is not merely an aesthetic product, but an existential event unfolding through the...
The paper proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of the nature of consciousness and intelligence. The hypothesis of the existence of a fundamental quantum field of consciousness as a special form of physical reality capable of interacting with living neural structures using resonant mechanisms is put forward. Human intelligence is considered as a functional manifestation of...
The rapid integration of AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) into daily life has been accompanied by reports of psychosis-like presentations following intensive human-AI interaction, a phenomenon we provisionally label AI-induced psychosis as a working construct rather than a validated clinical entity. This hypothesis-generating narrative review synthesizes case reports from...
The article introduces a partial order structure to study the relations between levels and contents of conscious experience within a formal and mathematical model. Inspired by Husserl’s phenomenology, our account models structural aspects of experiences as layers that can be experienced in potentiality or in actuality, composing further experiences and imposing an order among them. From our...
The "hard problem" of consciousness lies in the unclear physical origin of subjective experience. This paper proposes the Consciousness Flow Vortex Model-Hypothesis (CFVM-H). In 2025, a study by Fang Zepeng's team published in *Science* utilized intracranial stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) in human subjects to confirm that the centromedian/ parafascicular (CM/Pf) thalamic nuclei activate...
Recent years have seen a decisive turn in neuroscience toward embodiment, shifting focus from a brain-bound view of the mind to a more holistic one where the body is treated as constitutive of self and consciousness. While this turn has yielded valuable insights through studies on interoception, multisensory integration and bodily ownership, it also carries significant theoretical and ethical...
This article examines whether Jung’s theory of individuation reaches a structural limit that Vijnanvada (Yogacara) Buddhist philosophy can identify and continue. Prior comparative scholarship has mapped Jungian archetypes onto Buddhist categories; this study argues that such approaches conceal a more fundamental asymmetry between the two traditions. The study employs structural-comparative...
Bu çalışma, Hindu düşüncesi açısından özellikle erken ve orta dönem Upanişadlar ile Advaita Vedanta öğretisiyle sınırlandırılmıştır. Bu çerçevede Brahma, ātman, maya, samsara ve mokşa gibi temel kavramlar ele alınmıştır. Hindu mistisizmi ile İslam tasavvufu arasında insan, Tanrı ve hakikat ilişkisini merkeze alan karşılaştırmalı bir metafizik inceleme yapmaktadır. Araştırmanın temel konusu,...
Mediumistic experience occupies a contested position at the intersection of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, religious studies, philosophy of mind, and consciousness research. Reports of communication with deceased persons, ancestors, deities, spirits, or other nonordinary intelligences recur across historical periods and cultural settings, often involving voice-hearing, sensed presence,...
This article analyzes the concept of antara (interval/gap) in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra as a direct method for recognizing nondual consciousness within the Kashmir Śaivism tradition. The study employs a textual hermeneutic analysis of dhāraṇā verses that contain instructions concerning the middle point (madhya), the pause between breaths, the gap between thoughts, and the cessation of...