The present study aims to develop a yoga therapy healing approach grounded in the Vedantic principle of Tat Tvam Asi, which signifies the essential unity of the individual self with universal consciousness. Rooted in Advaita Vedanta, this principle offers a profound philosophical foundation for understanding inner abundance as a state of self-realisation, inner fulfilment, and holistic...
Behavioural Brain ResearchMarch 28, 2026Lucas Villar Pedrosa Da Silva Pantoja, Luiza Fernanda Ramos Soares, Brenda Costa Da Conceição et al.
Adolescence is a period of profound behavioral changes associated with high brain vulnerability to negative stimuli including psychotropic drugs misuse which may contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders. Ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist, is an anesthetic agent used in a recreational manner in night clubs and raves, especially by intranasal route. The psychedelic effects of...
bioRxivMarch 27, 2026Cécile Gal, Dimitrios Askitis, Katarina Begus
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Self-reflection is central to human cognition and is arguably a defining feature of human consciousness. Yet, the mechanisms enabling our mind to reflect upon itself and to construct a conceptual sense of self remain poorly understood. This study brings empirical traction to the puzzle of self-reflection by studying human infants, across the period when a conceptual self is believed to emerge,...
All varieties of dreaming remain a mystery. Lucid dreams in particular, or those characterized by awareness of the dream, are notoriously difficult to study. Their scarce prevalence and resistance to deliberate induction make it difficult to obtain a sizeable corpus of lucid dream reports. The consequent lack of clarity around lucid dream phenomenology has left the many purported applications...
This article examines how religious experience is articulated through genre in the poetry of the seventeenth-century Ottoman Mawlawī shaykh Neshāṭī (d. 1674), focusing on the striking contrast between his ghazals and non-ghazal compositions. While Neshāṭī’s qaṣīdas, mathnawīs and other formal genres employ an explicit and direct religious language—addressing God, the Prophet, sacred figures,...
Scientific ReportsMarch 27, 2026Jonathan Lomax Boyd, Eric Allen Jensen, Aaron Michael Jensen et al.
Human brain organoids embodied within virtual learning environments provide a novel experimental system for mechanistic studies of learning and memory. Yet these forms of synthetic biological or organoid intelligence raise moral and ethical concerns. Bioethicists argue that if biocomputers become conscious, they have ‘moral status’, which places limits on permissible research. Yet previous...
CONTEXT: People living with serious illness frequently experience intense existential suffering related to awareness of finitude. Psychedelic-assisted therapies have been associated with reductions in death anxiety and existential distress, yet the experiential processes underlying transformations in the relationship with finitude remain insufficiently understood. OBJECTIVES: To synthesize...
The article is devoted to a comprehensive philosophical and anthropological study of spiritual self-improvement as a fundamental factor in the formation of value stability in the conditions of “fluid modernity.” The relevance of the topic is determined by the profound crisis of meaning in consumer society and the challenges of the digital age, which lead to the fragmentation of human...
This research paper presents a theoretical examination of the concept termed “Mind Rewind”, an idea proposing that while human consciousness cannot access the unknown future, it possesses complete and dynamic access to all previously experienced information stored within the brain. Through intentional cognitive activation, memory reconstruction, and deep mental immersion, the mind can simulate...
Abstract A fundamental question for consciousness science is what changes in the brain when phenomenal experience arises or restructures. Current EEG metrics of consciousness predominantly measure temporal signal complexity, but face a systematic confound: broadband amplitude increases during propofol sedation and slow-wave sleep paradoxically inflate complexity measures, misranking states that...