Abstract: This is the foundational synthesis of the Return to Consciousness project. The one thing every investigation of nature presupposes — conscious experience — has for over a century been treated as a byproduct of the things it was used to study. This essay argues that consciousness-first metaphysics — specifically Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism — handles the resulting explanatory...
This preprint was submitted on 31 March 2026. The author confirms that the research content is authentic, accurate, and reliable. The author takes all legal and academic responsibility for content presented in this work.This paper presents a first-person qualitative case study of an individual with extraordinarily high dream recall frequency, sustained high‑narrative dreaming, and unconscious...
Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical project seeks to bridge the chasm between the empirical rigidity of modern science and the mystical depths of religious experience.For Steiner, the Apostle Paul is not merely a theological architect of early Christianity, but the first "spiritual scientist" of the Christian era-a figure whose conversion on the Damascus road constitutes a prototype for a...
Educational leadership today faces a profound crisis of meaning, revealing the limits of managerial and technocratic paradigms that neglect the inner life of leaders. Addressing this critical gap in educational leadership research, this conceptual paper introduces the Holistic Transpersonal Educational Leadership Model (HTELM) , an integrative framework that unites spiritual alignment, energy...
This paper reframes disability and pathology through a developmental-relational lens, introducing the phenomenological congruence framework to complement existing models. The ecological-enactive model, ecological functional model, and microactivist affordances approaches offer valuable insight into disability but do not fully account for how developmental trajectories shape people’s capacity to...
This study explains personality by combining Western psychology and Indian yogic philosophy. It shows that personality is not just traits or behavior but a growth of awareness and inner balance through body, mind, and consciousness: Pañca-Kośa, Triguṇa, and Antaḥkaraṇa. Yoga is presented as a practical path for personality development and inner transformation.
psychiatric disorders, beta-carbolines, trace amine, phosphoproteomics, social hierarchy. Scientific interest in psychedelic substances has re-emerged, offering new perspectives on the treatment of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.Historically, psychedelics have been associated with a wide spectrum of positive and negative effects, encompassing ritualistic and spiritual use,...
Human cognition does not passively mirror reality; it actively constructs a world through perception and social interaction. Using a cognitive constructivist framework, this paper investigates how shared reality and intersubjectivity emerge from dynamic processes of calibration between minds. We synthesize evidence from psychology (e.g. shared reality theory, conversational alignment),...
Cognition has traditionally been described in terms of representations, computations, or predictive models. This paper proposes a more fundamental constraint: that cognition exists only where change is both registered and preserved. We formalize this claim as the \emph{Universal Derivative Principle} (UDP), according to which cognitive phenomena arise from the temporal differentiation and...
This article examines the emergence of the question of language in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Structure of Behaviour, which precedes Phenomenology of Perception and yet has often been overlooked in studies of his philosophy of language. Contrary to the interpretation that places the beginning of this problem in a later work, it is argued that the foundations of his linguistic conception are...