‘Work is Worship’ is a philosophical idea that comes from ancient Indian teachings and is deeply rooted in Indian Philosophy. Workplace spirituality is a Western approach, but missing its Indian ingredient, i.e., our Indian philosophy. Workplace spirituality has increasingly gained attention in modern organizational studies as scholars explore how inner awareness, meaning, and connectedness...
This study aims to comprehensively examine the crises of identity, meaning and belonging that postmodern thought has caused in the conception of humanity and to evaluate the ontological, ethical and spiritual possibilities offered by sufism in response to these crises within a holistic framework. Postmodernism defines humans as beings lacking a fixed essence, fragmented, variable and largely...
This paper presents the Theory of Dominationist Consciousness as a comprehensive, multi-register framework for understanding how systems of power evolve beyond economic or ideological hegemony to become ontological and biological conditions of existence. The theory advances a foundational claim: that domination in late modernity has ceased to be an external imposition upon human subjects and...
This paper critically examines speculative consciousness hypotheses commonly encountered in contemporary social media discourse, particularly those combining metaphysical ontology, systems theory, evolutionary reasoning, information theory, cosmology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind. Using a representative composite framework as an analytic exemplar, the paper evaluates how such...
Minimal Phenomenal Experiences (MPEs) are states of consciousness in which wakefulness is preserved but phenomenal content is low or absent. The Entropic Brain Hypothesis (EBH) is a model of conscious processes that regards the entropy of spontaneous brain activity as a marker of 'phenomenal richness', exemplified by high-content psychedelic experiences (HCPEs). Yet recent human neuroimaging...
In the field of Dance Anthropology, the concept of 'ecstatic dance' has been used generically to refer to African, Afro-Brazilian, Middle Eastern and Shaman dances. Researchers as Jennings (1995), Baxman (1990), Gore (1995) and Camargo (1996) have begun to employ the concept more specifically, but very little is known about how these dances are induced. As a dance anthropologist, I turned to...
Dissociative disorders are generally understood in psychiatry as a disruption or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control or behavior. Still, no definitive theoretical model makes sense of the full spectrum of experiences that currently fall under the large umbrella of “dissociative”. This lack of a...
This article examines Integrated Reality Theory (IRT) as a cross-disciplinary synthesis effort to answer the fragmentation of modern knowledge. With a conceptual-comparative approach, this article puts IRT in dialogue with critical realism, general systems theory, and the science of complexity. The results of the analysis show that IRT has novelty in integrating processual ontology,...
In this paper, I argue that two plausible claims for olfactory experience, (i) that modality is spatially indeterminate regarding the spatial location of what it presents and (ii) that whatever it presents, it is experienced as external to the perceiver’s body, are in conflict with one another. I argue that a satisfactory answer to this puzzle requires us to accept as part of olfactory...
The possibility that insects experience pain is a frontier question at the intersection of behaviour, cognition and philosophy of mind. Interest has been fuelled not only by anatomical discoveries but also by expanding behavioural and comparative evidence. Leading frameworks emphasize behavioural indicators of pain-like experience such as flexible, targeted responses to harm beyond reflexive...