This paper examines Whereabouts of the Anonymous: Explorations of the Invisible by Rajorshi Patranabis as a distinctive contribution to contemporary Indian writing in English that reconfigures the genre of supernatural memoir. Blending lyrical prose with episodic narration, the text resists sensationalist representations of the paranormal and instead foregrounds an introspective,...
The contemporary world is increasingly characterized by psychological instability, emotional fragmentation, existential uncertainty, and spiritual alienation. In the midst of technological advancement and material progress, modern humanity continues to suffer from anxiety, depression, restlessness, and a persistent crisis of meaning. Ancient Indian philosophical traditions, particularly the...
The paper draws on Husserl’s description of primordial intersubjective temporality, which I present as consistent with and integral to his understanding of the continuum between empathy and instinct. Because Husserl presents the mother-child relation as the foundational relation which constitutes the most primordial site of intersubjective temporal continuity, I focus my attention on the role...
The Radha-Krishna tradition in South Asian devotional literature provides a significant space where divinity, love, and emotional intensity converge. Within this framework, Kazi Nazrul Islam reconfigures devotional expression through a sensuous and psychologically nuanced poetic idiom. His selected songs foreground Madhura Bhava as a devotional mode in which longing, anticipation, and embodied...
Post-treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD) is a post-infectious syndrome characterized by fatigue, hypersomnia, sleep-disturbance, musculoskeletal pain and/or cognitive difficulties. As part of an open-label pilot study of psilocybin-assisted treatment for PTLD, we explored potential for psilocybin-assisted treatment to remedy sleep-related disturbances in this population. 12 participants consented to...
Schizophrenia (SPR) spectrum disorders involve various subjective symptoms, including disruptions in self-awareness, cognitive complaints, and schizotypy. While tools such as the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE), Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (Frankfurter Beschwerde-Fragebogen, FBF), and Chapman Psychosis Proneness Scales (CPPS) have been employed, research on their...
Resuscitation PlusMay 1, 2026José Alonso Ruiz, Mayte Rodríguez-González-Moro, Tomás Segura et al.
This observational study examined brain activation patterns when people relive their memories of recalled experiences of death (REDs), also known as authentic near-death experience (NDE) memories, using structural and functional MRI under normal cerebral perfusion in participants with clinically documented life-threatening events and loss of consciousness. Fifteen participants (7 women, 8 men;...
Silence is often treated as a communicative void, a suspension of meaning, or a disruption of social connection. This dissertation challenges that assumption through an ethnographic study of zazen (seated meditation) at the Bristol Zen Dojo, where silence is not the absence of sociality but its medium. Through sensory ethnography and phenomenological analysis, the findings reveal that shared...
Chronic pain is a major public health problem. Due to the persistent, costly, and complex nature of chronic pain, there is a need for new safe and effective treatments. Integrative breathwork interventions, or therapeutic styles of conscious breathing, have promise as novel treatments for chronic pain. The primary objective of this proof-of-concept study was to examine the feasibility,...
This review explores the hypothesis that schizophrenic symptoms may be understood not as isolated deficits, but as interconnected manifestations of a structural reorganization of consciousness. The premises of this work are grounded in a comparative matrix that suggests an underlying "consanguinity" between the philosopher's voluntary epoché-the suspension of the natural attitude performed to...