This paper develops a comparative philosophical analysis of minimal-duality and “bare” consciousness as introspective limit-concepts—notions that emerge when reflexive awareness approaches the edges of self-representation and differentiation. By examining selected traditions (Neoplatonism, Advaita Vedānta, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Taoism, and Kabbalah) as illustrative case studies rather than an...
Consciousness presents a structural puzzle: a unified, context-sensitive, globally integrated mode of experience emerging from distributed neural dynamics. While classical neuroscience has mapped synaptic, oscillatory, and network-level mechanisms with increasing precision, debate persists as to whether classical formalisms fully capture the integrative and contextual features of conscious...
The paper analyses the three main concepts of Buddhist philosophy of consciousness and considers the problem of their translation into Ukrainian. The author shows that it is necessary to compare the terms related to different Buddhist traditions’ (Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and al.) in order to adequately translate them into modern languages. The analysis of a passage (II.34) from Vasubandhu’s...
The research devoted to the studies of Merab Mamardashvili and Alexander Pyatigorsky, their philosophical approaches to understanding consciousness. M.K. Mamardashvili and A.M. Pyatigorsky first presented the “metatheory of consciousness” in the joint work “Symbol and consciousness” (completed in 1974, published in 1982). The basics of their “metatheory” are the description of the “structure of...
medRxiv Preprint ServerMarch 31, 2026Maia Mallevays, Louise Fuet, Michel Danon et al.1 citation
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Esketamine is a fast-acting antidepressant drug which induces acute psychoactive effects. The most frequent is a dissociative state which seems unrelated to therapeutic efficacy. Other esketamine-induced effects, including psychedelic-like mystical experiences, have been poorly studied in terms of phenomenology and frequency, and may carry specific therapeutic relevance. In this study, we...
Objective: Somatic delusions are common in schizophrenia; however, delusional zoopathy—defined as the conviction that macroscopic animals (e.g., reptiles or mammals) inhabit the body—is rare and phenomenologically distinct from classical delusional infestation (Ekbom syndrome), which typically involves microscopic organisms. We report a 35-year-old married woman from Assam with chronic...
On March 12, 2026, Natalia Ivanovna Chuprikova, Doctor of Psychology and Professor Emerita of the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education, passed away. She was a patriarch of Russian psychology, a preeminent scholar in the fields of psychophysiology, the theory of higher nervous activity, and developmental psychology. Her scientific legacy spanned an entire epoch in the...
The study offers a comprehensive substantiation of the phenomenal manifestations of human self-determination within the problematic field of the spherical life-flow of consciousness. Consciousness is interpreted as the highest substantial form of human existence, which, despite lacking its own psychic modality, manifests itself phenomenally – primarily through acts of experiencing, awareness,...
Abstract Background This study presents the qualitative findings of interdisciplinary research exploring ayahuasca-induced experiences in two distinct groups in Uruguay: a neo-shamanic group rooted in the Peruvian vegetalismo tradition and a Santo Daime Church. Aims Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, the study examines similarities and differences in subjective experiences during a...
This study critically addresses the persistent gap in Islamic Religious Education (IRE) between cognitive-oriented instructional practices and the need for transformative learning that meaningfully integrates spiritual experience. Existing applications of Quantum Learning (QL) within religious education largely remain technical and methodological. At the same time, Sufi epistemology,...