Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) imposes a significant psychological, physical, and emotional burden on millions of adults in the United States. A challenge in treating CMP is its tendency to become enmeshed with a person's sense of self. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) offer a promising approach to help patients disentangle pain from their sense of self. However, rigorous research is...
This article is devoted to a comprehensive religious studies analysis of the anthropological foundations of resilience within the Ukrainian spiritual tradition. Based on the study of the Hesychast heritage and religious-philosophical thought of the Baroque era, the essential connection between traditional ascetic methods of self-regulation and the latest strategies of psychological resilience...
Recent theoretical approaches have renewed attention to the idea that consciousness should be understood not as a by-product of physical processes but as a foundational aspect of reality itself. Panpsychism, foundational consciousness models, and related field-theoretic approaches share a common commitment to treating consciousness as cosmologic fundamental rather than an emergent one. However,...
Transpersonal psychology has contributed significantly to the understanding of spiritual emergence and crisis by legitimizing non-ordinary states of consciousness and anomalous experiences. However, many prevailing frameworks continue to rely on intrapsychic explanatory models that lack clear evidential thresholds when confronted with experiences that appear to involve autonomous or external...
Abstract Conscious experience is associated with both sufficient cerebral metabolic support and preserved large-scale neural integration, yet these two constraints have largely been studied in isolation. Whether consciousness requires their joint satisfaction — and whether either alone is sufficient — remains an open question. Here, we test the prediction that conscious states occupy a joint...
Abstract Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) offer profound and beneficial shifts in perspective, yet remain largely inaccessible outside elite contemplative or pharmacological contexts. Although neural measures have advanced our understanding of these states, their cost and limited ecological validity restrict broader application. This study evaluates heart rate variability (HRV) amplitude, a...
The recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in light of the impressive capabilities of transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs), have reignited the discussion in cognitive science regarding whether computational devices could possess semantic understanding or whether they are merely mimicking human intelligence. Recent research has highlighted limitations in...
Este artigo apresenta o protocolo experimental e a base teórica atualizada do Experimento do Século, cujo objetivo central é validar empiricamente a Arquitetura Holográfica da Construção da Realidade (AHCR 2.0), modelo que propõe a consciência como variável físico-informacional mensurável no processo de construção da realidade observável.A origem dessa abordagem remonta à publicação do primeiro...
Recent research has underscored the rhythmic nature of visual perception, yet the connection between these perceptual rhythms, conscious awareness, and their underlying mechanisms remains largely elusive. This study employed a fine-grained temporal priming paradigm to investigate the oscillatory dynamics of face perception. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the awareness of prime stimuli to...
Recent advances have shown that the complexity of neural signals tracks global states of consciousness, such as wakefulness versus sleep. However, it is still unclear to what extent neural complexity reflects fine-grained changes in conscious content within the same global state. Here, we investigate how the complexity of brain signals is affected by increased perceptual clarity of a stimulus....