The author introduces and defines the idea of thoughtforms and their role in psychic life. Using both clinical and theoretical data to build his argument, the idea is put forward that dominant thoughtforms can be displaced by new ones, and that this is in fact the process of growth in both life and psychotherapy.
Previous research has reported a link between imaginary companions (ICs) in middle childhood and the perception of verbal material in ambiguous auditory stimuli. These findings have been interpreted in terms of commonalities in the cognitive processes underlying children's engagement with ICs and adults' reporting of imaginary verbal experiences such as auditory verbal hallucinations. The aim...
Cognitive warfare is commonly framed as a contest over perception and decision-making. Thisarticle argues that its most consequential leverage often appears during liminal periods, whenestablished identities, meanings, and institutions no longer provide sufficient orientation. Itintroduces the thoughtform as a functional analytic construct with a long, heterogeneousgenealogy in initiation,...
El presente cultivo y crianza de sabidurías y conocimientos CCRISAC, fue realizado en la comunidad del pueblo indígena Nasa de Toribio ubicada a 123 kilómetros de la ciudad de Popayán, capital del departamento del Cauca, Colombia. En los hallazgos encontrados se resalta el gran conocimiento de la comunidad con el tejido del arte y la comunicación intercultural como parte de las sabidurías que...
This article focuses on the presentation of parallel worlds in the early twentieth century Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s (1894-1950) novel Debjan (1946) [literally, ‘the path of the Gods’]. Bandyopadhyay is known abroad mainly for his novels Song of the Road (in Bengali Pather Panchali, 1929) and Mountain of the Moon (Bengali Chander Pahar, 1937), both of which have been...
Abstract (English) This paper clarifies the status of the term “thoughtform” (mysleforma) within the Acta Universi (AU) hypothesis. It is shown that the term functions as a physical metaphor denoting any irreversible act of information recording in the non-local AU archive (the informational field). Mathematically, a thoughtform corresponds to a localized source in the entropy field SΘ S_\Theta...
This essay asks why people read personhood into machines, and what else have we attributed personhood through cultures in history. The argument is made between philosophy, anthropology and psychiatry. It treats Turing's imitation game as a test of the observer, sets Searle's Chinese Room against Hilary Putnam's multiple realizability, and reads the personhood trials that science fiction has...
This paper introduces Dialogical Inner Voice Personification (DIVP): a formless, persistent inner dialogue partner that emerges spontaneously in childhood, operates through linguistic turn-taking, and is experienced as part of the self. Drawing on eight autoethnographic interview sessions conducted with an AI research assistant and corroborated by parental accounts, the author - a 14-year-old...
This Element explores emerging forms of religiosity among Japanese young adults. It argues that existing frameworks are insufficient to capture the nuances of youth religiosity in the Era of Virtuality. It introduces the concepts of “2.5-dimensional religion” and “subjective ritualization” to explain how young people engage with digital, fictional, and embodied practices that blur the...
Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S) characterizes recurrent ‘ghostly episodes’ as an interactionist phenomenon emerging from people with heightened somatic-sensory sensitivities that are stirred by dis-ease states, contextualized with paranormal belief, and reinforced via perceptual contagion and threat-agency detection. We tested the applicability of this psychological model via a three-part,...