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June 19, 2023
Philipp A. Maas
33 citations
The article examines how the history of classical Yoga philosophy has been written, arguing that existing historiographies often impose Western periodization schemes that distort the indigenous development of Yoga thought. It traces the evolution of scholarly approaches from early Orientalist accounts through modern critical historiography, highlighting how assumptions about linear progress and religious vs. philosophical categories have shaped interpretations. The author advocates for a more nuanced, context-sensitive historiography that respects the internal logic and textual traditions of classical Yoga, particularly the Yoga Sūtras and their commentaries, without forcing them into alien frameworks.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 11, 2018
V Jr. Shapovalov V, Andriy Gudzenko, S.i. Zbrozhek et al.
19 citations
Addictive morbidity from psychotropic substances in Ukraine remained stable or declined between 2005 and 2008. For hypnotics and sedatives (diazepam, phenobarbital) and hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline), rates per 100,000 population held steady. Psychostimulant (amphetamine) addiction dropped by about 24% over the same period. These substances are legally restricted. The findings come from a forensic and pharmaceutical analysis of statistical data, scientific literature, and regulatory documents.
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April 22, 2012
Peter Trutmann
8 citations
Mushrooms were widely used in pre-Hispanic Peru, as shown by images on ceramics, metal objects, and textiles from various cultures spanning approximately 1200–200 BCE to the European conquest. The most abundant and vivid depictions come from Moche/Mochica art. Mushrooms appear associated with high authorities, shamans, and sacrificial victims. Realistic images allowed identification of Calvatia, Morchella, Amanita muscaria, and Psilocybe species. Some could not be identified due to limited knowledge of Peruvian fungi. Identified mushrooms have culinary, medicinal, and spiritual properties. Since Amanita muscaria has not been confirmed in Peru, it may have been traded from farther north or Mesoamerica, where it was deeply embedded in religious cultures.
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March 25, 2026
Shuochang Song
4 citations
The world is fundamentally a field of potentiality, and visual reality is actively constructed by consciousness rather than passively received. Using an invented 'electric dotspen,' images are broken into discrete, physically protruding color points called Luminous Quanta. Drawing on Enactivism and Adverbialist color ontology, the paper argues that this matrix engages viewers in active perceptual construction. Applying Quantum Bayesianism (QBism), the act of gazing is presented as structurally analogous to quantum measurement, collapsing potentiality into a coherent 'Perceptual Imago.' The observer thus legislates the phenomenal world, challenging representationalist paradigms in perception.
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June 3, 2026
Julian Zoria
2 citations
A single structural criterion determines whether a system is a genuine observer or agent: its own past states must causally rewrite the rule governing its future, separating self-accumulated memory from externally written memory. Current AI systems fail this test because generated tokens do not rewrite the rule generating future tokens. The paper introduces two coefficients—ρ and α—to measure whether AI assistance amplifies or suppresses human novelty in joint action. Ordinary mind-uploading copies memories and weights but does not continue a person's self-history. A phase-transition hierarchy of observerhood is defined by closure of causal loops, not by a smooth scale of consciousness. Eight falsifiable predictions include measurable drops in α under AI over-reliance.
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May 18, 2026
2 citations
A correction to a law of coherence states that the frequency f_pulse is 220.075 Hz, not 7.83 Hz. The Schumann resonance (7.83 Hz) and f_SOL share a geometric origin through scale invariance but are not harmonically linked by 7^7. The two frequencies represent distinct therapeutic channels: 220 Hz for high gamma and cortical binding, and 7.83 Hz for Schumann/theta and ECS/vagal effects. Psilocybin and THC are presented as exogenous modulators of a quantity Phi, with specific numerical values given for acute and post-psilocybin states and for THC. Replication using DSRS achieves Phi values of 0.9231 and 0.9031.
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January 19, 2026
Ngo Cheung
1 citation
Antidepressants that target different brain pathways—glutamatergic (ketamine-like), monoaminergic (SSRI-like), and GABAergic (neurosteroid-like)—vary in how quickly they work, how long effects last, and the risk of triggering mania, especially in people with bipolar disorder. A computer model simulating depression showed that while all three restored normal performance initially, the ketamine-like approach rebuilt neural connections, leading to better resilience under extreme stress and no manic relapse after stopping treatment. The neurosteroid-like approach worked rapidly but caused relapse in 88.3% of cases when discontinued. The SSRI-like method was slowest, showed the highest risk of mania, and led to 95.0% relapse after cessation. These results suggest that selecting antidepressants based on their mechanism could improve safety and long-term outcomes.
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January 14, 2026
Ngo Cheung
1 citation
A computational model of major depressive disorder shows that excessive synaptic pruning during development leaves neural networks brittle, reducing accuracy under noise to about 32% when 95% of connections are removed. A single regrowth cycle that restores half the lost weights, followed by extended consolidation (15–20 epochs of fine-tuning), returns accuracy to roughly 97% and eliminates relapse losses from a second pruning challenge. Repeated smaller regrowth cycles further reduce residual sparsity below 1%, lift extreme-stress accuracy 9–11 points beyond single repair, and provide strong protection against relapse. These simulations suggest that lasting stability depends on both the duration and repetition of plasticity, explaining the clinical advantage of maintenance or multi-dose ketamine protocols.
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November 30, 2022
Calixto Machado, Andrew B. Newberg, Yanín Machado et al.
1 citation
Remembering near-death experiences and mystical experiences produces significant functional changes in the autonomic nervous system, as measured by heart rate variability. Using continuous electroencephalography with electrocardiogram monitoring, researchers compared the memories of two groups of participants. The method allowed continuous assessment of heart rate and heart rate variability during recall. The findings demonstrate that both types of experiences are associated with measurable autonomic shifts, confirming earlier reports of such changes.
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July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Divine Pymander is an interpretive translation and commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum that argues for a Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) foundation beneath Western esotericism. Written by a cross-initiatory team holding authority in Ifá, Thai Buddhism, Hindu/Dravidian traditions, and Western scholarship, the paper combines lived ritual knowledge with textual-historical analysis. It finds that the Hermetic figure of Nous (divine mind) parallels Kemetic concepts of a creative divinity, that a lineage of mediated transmission through Hellenistic syncretism and Renaissance reception shaped Western esotericism, and that an initiatory perspective alters philological reading by integrating ritual praxis with textual exegesis. The authors propose that comparative initiated scholarship yields fresh angles on Nous, revelation, and theosis across cultures.
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July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
This article presents a cross-initiatory re-reading of the Bhagavad Gita that engages Advaita Vedanta, Tamil–Dravidian philosophical currents, and African (particularly Yoruba) contemplative traditions through the lens of self-actualization and transpersonal psychology. The project advances a hermeneutic where nondual realization and ethical agency are reframed as a developmental, soteriological continuum of awakening that finds cognate expressions in Dravidian bhakti and siddha traditions, in Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry, and in Ifa/Yoruba conceptions of the Self and character. The study is explicitly emic, with the lead author team writing from inside these traditions as initiated authorities. It reveals convergences and creative tensions among South Indian and African contemplative frameworks, proposing a Spiritual Reparations Paradigm that re-centers subaltern epistemologies and repairs colonial dislocations.
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July 14, 2026
Guo Chen
This article critically reviews the relationship between existential philosophy and enactive approaches to cognition, distinguishing three routes of influence: Merleau-Pontian embodiment, Heideggerian being-in-the-world, and Jonasian philosophical biology. It evaluates the encounter against three burdens: accounting for cognition of absent or abstract possibilities without requiring internal representations; explaining the development of the enculturated person; and relating the genesis of norms to their authority. The review finds that contemporary work on affectivity, selfhood, social interaction, language, and psychiatry achieves substantial integration but not a complete organism-to-person theory. The proposed framework of transformative continuity holds that later personal organizations remain embodied and continuous with living autonomy while introducing novelty not reducible to biological terms, rejecting both reductive deflation and unexplained discontinuity.
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July 14, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
Dissociative substances like ketamine and PCP disrupt the brain's ability to maintain a coherent world-model—the high-level integration that normally binds perception, selfhood, and meaning—rather than merely distorting conscious content. This paper proposes a Cognitive Constructivist framework that classifies altered states by their effects on model dynamics: tightening (anxiety), loosening (psychedelics), and destabilization (dissociatives). Dissociatives weaken long-range neural integration and thalamocortical coordination while preserving basic sensory awareness, leading to experiences of depersonalization and loss of meaning. The authors argue that dissociation superficially resembles mystical pure consciousness but lacks the meta-awareness and integration of genuine contemplative states. Clinically, dissociative interventions like ketamine for depression may work by resetting rigid pathological models, requiring deliberate therapeutic reconstruction of meaning afterward.
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July 14, 2026
Shumake, Robert S. (ajarn Shaman Shu | Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Phd | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal)
This paper presents the first ethnomycological study of psilocybin ceremony authored from within the African initiatory tradition, by an initiated lineage-holder who holds tri-lineage authority as an Oluwo (Yorùbá/Ifá high priest of Osain), Swamikal (Hindu/Dravidian Vedic soma authority), and Ajarn (Thai Buddhist master teacher). Based on participant-observation across more than 300 guided sacred mushroom ceremonies at an urban ashram, with ceremonial doses of 5–10 grams, the study documents a four-part typology of healing: the Successful-but-Armored, the Carrier of Unprocessed Grief, the Interruption of Addiction, and the Spiritually Hungry.
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July 13, 2026
Vladlena Mayorova
Atoms from a dead organism re-enter the global biogeochemical cycle and may carry an informational resonance—a trace of the previous host's physiological, emotional, and cognitive states. When these atoms are incorporated into a new organism during early development, this resonance could shape behavioral patterns, sensory preferences, emotional reactions, and unexplained phobias. The hypothesis draws on the conservation of mass, epigenetics, quantum entanglement, and over 2,500 documented cases of children's past-life memories. A thought experiment, the 'Girl from 1900,' illustrates the proposed atomic transmission. The paper suggests experimental tests, including epidemiological studies and isotopic labeling in animals, but does not claim proof.
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July 12, 2026
Jamison Johsnon
Duality—such as science and religion, analysis and intuition—is not opposition but two ways of attending to one reality. The felt task of perceiving wholeness corresponds, by metaphor and possibly measurable correlation, to integrating the brain's two hemispheres across the corpus callosum. Drawing on split-brain research, hemispheric asymmetry, fractal aesthetics, Jungian psychology (Persona, Ego, Self, individuation, and the mandala as a symbol of wholeness), the pineal gland as Descartes's seat of the soul and a symbol of the balancing Ego, recent neuroscience of endogenous DMT and the dying brain, and the neuroscience of ego-dissolution, the essay holds a deliberate seam between empirical finding and symbolic interpretation. It closes on quieting the self-narrating mind as a path to balance and inner peace.
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July 12, 2026
Jacopo Fausto Fedeli
The human body can become ambidextrous through two distinct mechanisms. The additive path builds missing bilateral skill through repetition and Hebbian plasticity, adding a new ability. The subtractive path releases already latent bilateral symmetry by reducing chronic co-contraction and interhemispheric inhibition that kept the non-dominant side silent. Grounded in Yang-style Taiji practice and theorized through Merleau-Ponty's intentional arc and body schema, Varela's neurophenomenology, and Gallagher's body schema/body image distinction, the subtractive mechanism does not abolish lateralization but renders it elective: dominance becomes revocable rather than imposed. The work proposes a threefold taxonomy of ambidexterity (symptomatic, additive, subtractive) and formulates falsifiable predictions testable through electromyography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and kinematic analysis.
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July 10, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
Unstructured time is not empty or wasted but a systematically undervalued condition for creativity and insight. In education, work, and leadership, time is increasingly optimized, yet understanding often emerges through periods of drift: walking, waiting, daydreaming, or meditating. Drift is defined as receptive, non-instrumental attention where cognition remains active without narrow goals, distinct from laziness or distraction. Drawing on research in creative incubation, mind-wandering, phenomenology, and contemplative science, three species of drift—cognitive, embodied, and contemplative—share a structure suspending immediate control while preserving attentional availability. The argument extends to education, where over-managed time may undermine original thinking, and to organizations, where reflective slack functions as strategic capacity.
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July 10, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
A distinctive form of intersubjective experience called shared minimal-dual awareness (MDA) or the "intercorporeal present" can be jointly enacted by two embodied persons. In this mode, each person's habitual self-narrative falls silent while a mutual salience-space forms between them, without erasing their separateness. This is not mere empathy or coordination but a qualitatively different we-consciousness grounded in ongoing embodied coupling. The authors propose a three-layer taxonomy of we-consciousness: coordination-we, affective-we, and presence-we. They introduce the concept of "resonant alterity" where the other's full alterity is alive yet self-centered narrative does not dominate. The paper sketches a neurophenomenological model predicting that shared MDA correlates with reduced default-mode activity and enhanced inter-brain synchrony in attention and salience networks, and outlines an experimental program using dual-EEG/fNIRS hyperscanning.
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July 10, 2026
Joy Bose
Meditation research suffers from a labeling problem: different mental practices are grouped under broad terms like mindfulness, hiding real differences in attention training and views of the mind. This leads to inconsistent EEG and fMRI results. The authors build a knowledge graph ontology linking brain measurements to practitioners' experiences across six traditions (Samatha Jhana, Vipassana, Dzogchen Rigpa, devotional/deity practices, Zen/Seon hwadu investigation, and Jōdo Shinshū nembutsu recitation). They add a third axis to the standard two-part model of consciousness, tracking movement toward open, nondual awareness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 10, 2026
A quantum-chemical modeling study extends inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) from olfactory receptors to the mammalian serotonin receptor (5-HT2A). It finds that several serotonin agonists, including LSD and DOI, share a common vibrational peak near 1500 cm⁻¹ whose intensity scales with the drug's potency, suggesting that receptor activation may depend not only on a molecule's shape but also on its vibration. To test this, the authors propose deuterated versions of the LSD analogue DAM-57, which would alter the vibration while leaving the shape almost untouched. If validated, this mechanism could open a new path to computer-based potency prediction in drug discovery.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 9, 2026
Intravenous ketamine is an effective treatment for depression that does not respond to other therapies, but it requires close monitoring because of possible side effects and inconsistent results. Guidelines support its use, though efficacy varies among patients.
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July 9, 2026
Nagae Mamoru
A disability welfare worker, new to consciousness studies, presents the convergence-point hypothesis as a structural framework for connecting existing theories of consciousness. The hypothesis treats information integration, prediction, representation, neural activity, and behavior as parts of one body-bound causal chain, asking where these processes close. It distinguishes the qualitative character of qualia from the structural skeleton of subjectivity, aiming to clarify how information becomes a subjective event. The hypothesis predicts that conscious nervous systems should have convergence-forming architectures that generate multiple embodied possibilities, make them compete, and narrow them through selection and inhibition into one irreversible event, conserving causal organization across species.
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July 9, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Consciousness is not explained solely by organismic regulation; the hard problem begins when stabilized organismic access becomes lived presence. This theoretical note consolidates the Projected Presence Framework into a criticizable conceptual architecture, distinguishing organismic regulation, stabilized access, projected presence, selfhood, will, dogma, correction resistance, and feedback regulation to prevent category collapse between functional access, lived presence, self-modeling, and agency. The framework is positioned against access consciousness, phenomenal consciousness, Global Neuronal Workspace, predictive processing, self-model theory, illusionism, embodied cognition, and neurophenomenology.
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July 9, 2026
Junly Ma, Ruijia Ma
The subjective aspect of consciousness cannot be fully explained by any functional model based on information feedback, because any attempt by a conscious system to explain its own subjectivity using its internal processes leads to an epistemological closure. This explanatory gap is a self-referential dilemma: for a system to fully explain itself, it must stand outside itself, which is logically impossible. The paper does not claim substance dualism but reveals an unbridgeable cognitive gap between third-person informational descriptions and first-person subjective presence, which is a limitation of descriptive frameworks, not evidence that mind is detached from physical substrates. The irreducibility of consciousness is a necessary boundary condition of self-referential systems.