The mechanisms underlying consciousness and its potential continuity beyond biological death remain pivotal challenges in neuroscience. This study integrates quantum biology, Buddhist psychology, and thought experiments to propose a novel framework in which consciousness persists through hypothetical particles. Using three hypothetical scenarios—brain revival, molecular disassembly/reassembly,...
Kamala Das has always been vocal about the pain and suffering of the women in contemporary times. Her frankness in dealing with the taboo topics of the society invited unwanted controversies for her. The short stories of Kamala Das mostly speak about the uninhibited desires of the females who often face apprehensive behaviour for having their own ideas of sexuality. The paper is an attempt to...
Accurate assessment of the level of consciousness and potential to recover in patients with severe brain injury underpins crucial decisions in the intensive care unit but remains a major challenge for the clinical team. The neurological wake-up test is a widely used assessment tool. However, many patients' behavioral responses during a short interruption of sedation are ambiguous or absent,...
Slow oscillations dominate the EEG or local field potential (LFP) of mammals during specific periods within natural sleep and anesthesia. Such similarities have led to the use of anesthesia as a model to study sleep and state-dependent changes of consciousness. Previous research has documented the similarities between the activated state of urethane anesthesia and natural REM sleep,...
Mindfulness, defined as the ability to be fully aware and attentive to the present moment without judgment, has sparked growing interest in the therapeutic approach to anxiety disorders and depression. The objective of this narrative review is to provide a historical overview of the definition of mindfulness, the clinical implications of this practice based on Buddhist philosophy, and analyze...
May 23, 2025Alexander A Sulfaro1 citation
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A typical mental image is not clearly visible, nor invisible, but instead has an ethereal, near-indescribable appearance. This article attempts to define specifically what this phenomenology seems to entail. Here, mental images are proposed to involve only quasi-sensory experiences of thought content, without experiencing basic visual features of that content. Quasi-sensory experiences are...
Consciousness is private. Although conscious beings directly access their own conscious experiences, the consciousness of others must be inferred through overt report: observable behaviours - such as overt facial expressions, vocalizations and body gestures - that suggest the level, state and content of consciousness. However, overt report is limited because it can be erroneous (for example,...
Chanting is a universal practice with deep ethnocultural roots. More recently, chanting has become popular on online platforms and meditation apps which have extended chanting practices beyond their original cultural, sacred, and healing traditions. The aim of the current study was to determine if online chanting meditation promotes altered states of consciousness and psychosocial benefits when...
Live music can afford novel, transformative aesthetic interactions for individual audience members. Nevertheless, concert research tends to focus on shared experience. In this paper we offer an account of exploratory listening that foregrounds embodied-enactive engagement and affective resonance through close analysis of the music, physiological measurements, and reflections from interviews....
Although tukdam-a meditative state entered through various practices resting in extremely subtle consciousness while dying-is seen to only be achieved by adept practitioners, the philosophy and psychology that underpin tukdam inform Tibetan communities beyond just accomplished adepts and frame the very way death and dying is conceived. Based on an 18-month ethnographic study, this article...