Зборник Матице српске за славистику
2026
Dennis Ioffe
В данной статье рассматривается уникальное взаимодействие между грибной тематикой и русским концептуализмом, помещая микологический мотив в более широкий контекст эстетики второго авангарда и социально-политической критики.Русские художники, такие как Василий Кандинский, Илья Кабаков, Андрей Мона стырский и другие, внедряли образность грибов в свои работы как метафорический инструмент,...
2026
Richard J. Ruppel
Uncovers how Joseph Conrad's narratives reflect the cognitive studies of his day but also anticipate our own contemporary understandings of consciousness, trauma, and the human need for order. Cognitive Conraddemonstrates the interpretive power of cognitive literary studies and historicism in the most important works of Joseph Conrad. It highlights how Conrad's fiction reflects the complexities...
International Journal of Modern Anthropology
2026
Ammar Awad Mohamed Abdalla
This article examines the persistence of ritual drumming in the Middle Nile Valley through a comparative analysis of Napatan and Meroitic iconography and contemporary Sudanese Sufi practice. It focuses on the ritual drum known as Al-Nūba and explores whether its continued presence reflects functional continuity rather than direct historical transmission. Drawing on Jan Assmann’s concept of...
Journal of Ayurvedic Maulik Siddhant
2026
Mukesh Dwivedi
The classical tradition of Hatha Yoga presents a comprehensive framework in which health (ārogya), purification (śuddhi), and liberation (mokṣa) are interconnected dimensions of human well-being. While modern discourse frequently interprets Hatha Yoga primarily as a system of physical postures, classical texts reveal a far deeper therapeutic paradigm grounded in the purification of body,...
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science
2026
Zaifuddin Md Rasip, Abd Rahman Tajudin, Earnie Elmie Hilmi et al.
This study examines the concept of Insān al-Kāmil in the thought of Ibn ʿArabī as an epistemological framework for understanding human intelligence, with particular reference to al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah. While modern theories of intelligence, such as Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Quotient (EQ), and Spiritual Quotient (SQ), have progressively expanded the scope of human cognition, they...
2026
Canyon Akromis, Lorraine Li, Kwon Mok Ko et al.
preprint
This project is a secondary analysis of data from Psilocybin in Depression Resistant to Standard Treatments (PsiDeR) study, a phase II, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial where participants with treatment resistant depression received either 25 mg of psilocybin or a placebo alongside psychotherapy. This research seeks to determine whether the therapeutic alliance, measured by the...
OSF Preprints
2026
Edoardo Fiorino
preprint
This essay explores a naturalistic "middle way" between the traditional approaches to the existence of the soul—believing versus non-believing—and focuses on the related, ultimate question: what happens when we die? It navigates between the metaphysical assumptions of Cartesian dualism and the reductionism of strict scientism, utilizing the framework of Contextual Behavioral Science and Steven...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2026
Iain McGilchrist
Abstract Distinctions can be made between information-processing, different kinds of knowledge, and understanding (intelligence). AI may be incapable of the type of understanding/intelligence known to humans. On the origins of consciousness, panpsychism may be a more rationally satisfying explanation than emergence. Some brief reflections are included on the relation between matter and...
2026
Neal Deroo
Challengingmonotheistic and cognitive assumptions in philosophy of religion, Neal DeRoo sets out a novel theory grounded in a transcendental phenomenological understanding of spirituality. DeRoo applies transcendental phenomenology to questions and methods in the empirical study of religion and considers the way religion shapes our experience and interaction with the world. Accounting for this...
2026
Emma Kulish, Ilan Dar-Nimrod
preprint
Self-transcendent experiences (STEs) such as those elicited during meditation, psychedelic use, and experiences of awe, have been conceptualised as having two components: (1) annihilation (a diminished or dissolved sense of self) and (2) relation (an increased sense of interpersonal connectedness or embeddedness within a larger whole) (Yaden et al., 2017). While it is believed that STEs may...