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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.
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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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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 18, 2026
Yaoharee Lahtee
Experience is a finite event that transforms the observer, much like a low-rank update in a machine-learning system. From the inside, an experience feels like a bounded, embodied, emotionally weighted appearance directed at the world. From the outside, the same event selectively changes how the observer later perceives and acts. The argument uses a discrete mathematical framework where every accessible state is a finite difference on a finite graph, and time proceeds in steps. If an experience-driven update operates through a smaller active space within a larger organization, its change is low-rank. Durable learning comes from a retention mechanism, and cumulative change arises from many bounded updates. The theory connects to memory, neuroscience, and psychology, and treats mental suffering as a rigid but intelligible organization that has become harmful.
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July 17, 2026
Bartosz Niciński, Magdalena Kloc, Ewa Wiench, Natasza Millan, Aleksandra Blicharz, Wojciech Kozdraś, Lidia Kozaczko, Gabriela Szewczyk, Elżbieta Bukowczan, Alicja Zając, Damian Broda, Alicja Benecka
Major depressive disorder is a common and burdensome condition, and many patients do not fully recover after standard antidepressant treatment, prompting interest in rapid-acting interventions that target brain pathways beyond serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This review examines ketamine, esketamine, and classic psychedelics for depression, especially treatment-resistant depression. Ketamine and esketamine have the strongest evidence, with ketamine showing rapid antidepressant and anti-suicidal effects, and intranasal esketamine being the first NMDA receptor antagonist approved for treatment-resistant depression. Psilocybin-assisted therapy has shown promising results but remains investigational and requires a structured therapeutic framework. Evidence for LSD, DMT, and mescaline is preliminary. These treatments highlight the roles of glutamatergic modulation, serotonergic mechanisms, and neuroplasticity. Key unresolved issues include maintaining effects over time, identifying which patients benefit most, and safe delivery outside specialized settings.
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July 17, 2026
Iin Inayatul Ummah, Suadi Sa'ad, Ade Fakih Kurniawan
The philosophical relationship between the Sufi concepts of haqiqah (spiritual truth) and gnosis (direct intuitive knowledge) and the basic principles of quantum theory is analyzed through a qualitative library research approach. Haqiqah is understood as a potential dimension of spiritual awareness, while gnosis is the actualization of spiritual experience as direct, intuitive, and transformative. These concepts resonate philosophically with quantum principles such as superposition, uncertainty, entanglement, the observer effect, and wavefunction collapse. Superposition is analogous to the human inner state before achieving gnosis; uncertainty reflects the unpredictability of the spiritual journey; entanglement shares conceptual similarities with monotheism. The relationship is heuristic and philosophical, not empirical, serving as a conceptual bridge between spirituality and modern science without ontological equivalence.
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July 17, 2026
Pasquale Kaboth
Consciousness may emerge from recursively organized field dynamics rather than from static symbolic processing, according to the Plasma Field Core Architecture (PFCA) framework. The framework proposes that cognition, perception, memory, and awareness arise through interactions of dynamically coupled field operators, emphasizing recursive backward reconstruction, attractor geometry, multi-scale coherence, and self-organizing field dynamics. Consciousness is interpreted as a continuously evolving coherent field state generated through recursive integration across multiple spatial and temporal scales. PFCA aims to provide a formal mathematical and conceptual architecture suitable for analysis, computational implementation, and empirical investigation, presented as an open scientific proposal to stimulate discussion and refinement.
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July 17, 2026
Angel Fermoselle Gil, R Thanks Copilot For Assistance With Mathematical Formalization, Structural Refinement, And Manuscript Preparation.
A mathematical framework models the structure and dynamics of conscious experience using a geometric space for conscious configurations, a Hilbert space for contextuality and meaning interference, and a field theory for evolving patterns. It includes a generator of cognitive dynamics, a non-unitary mechanism for insight, and a synchronicity index measuring integration across perceptual, conceptual, and affective components. The model connects with quantum cognition, neurophenomenology, predictive processing, and neuronal integration theories, and it offers empirical predictions and falsifiable implications.
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July 17, 2026
Taroon Venkatasubramanian
A new theoretical framework called the Theory of General and Complete Consciousness (GCC) proposes a Two-Fold system and a processing architecture centered on a mechanism termed The Biological Algorithm, along with a mathematical Degree of Neural Awareness (DoNA) equation. The theory examines how memory and information processing interact to produce the 'conscious experience' in Homo sapiens. The DoNA equation uses weighted neurobiological parameters to produce a quantifiable DoNA score, normalized to a DoNA Index for comparative analysis across species. The paper presents a hypothetical scenario, discusses assumptions and limitations, and provides preliminary comparative calculations using available neurobiological data, offering a testable model for future empirical investigation.
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July 17, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola
Mental alchemy is presented as a systematic science of consciousness transformation grounded in the Hermetic tradition, drawing on The Hermetic Code by Ajarn Shaman Shu. The work describes a method for altering consciousness through symbolic and alchemical practices, aiming to achieve personal and spiritual development.
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July 17, 2026
О.в. Бодров
This theoretical paper connects Fritz Perls' Gestalt therapy concepts—awareness, contact boundary, figure and ground, unfinished gestalts, polarities, the paradoxical theory of change, avoidance mechanisms, dreams, and responsibility—with the laws of the mechanics of consciousness (Ekvilibro) and the Ekvilibro Game method. Awareness is defined as activation of the Observer, stopping automatic movement between duality poles. The contact boundary is where the Observer emerges between 'I' and 'world'. Figure and ground follow the Third Law: each figure has a paired ground. Unfinished gestalts are frozen dualities with high identification mass. Polarities are inseparable opposites.
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July 16, 2026
C W Anderson
Decoherence is not a spacetime-internal mechanism but a one-directional interface event that converts quantum possibilities into classical outcomes, dissolving the measurement problem more thoroughly than previously argued. The hard problem of consciousness—why first-person experience exists at all—cannot be resolved by any account grounding reality in impersonal structure, such as configuration space. A personal, necessary, atemporal ground is required as the framework's completion rather than an arbitrary addition. The argument extends a category-mistake analysis from the preceding paper to the interaction problem in philosophy of mind, maintaining that epistemic honesty demands this step rather than stopping short.
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July 16, 2026
Furkan Arikan
A creator could lack subjective feelings and emotions yet still have complete structural knowledge of all possible and actual realities. This article develops the Non-Experiential Structural Cognition Model (NESCM), which describes a creator as a noetic source that directly cognizes structures, causes, and consequences without experiencing phenomenal states. The creator exercises analogical agency, relates to an open future with graded freedom, and does not intervene in natural order. Possible worlds are compared through criteria like coherence, viability, resilience, and diversity. The model offers an alternative to anthropomorphic theism while acknowledging its own limitations regarding non-phenomenal agency, objective probability, and relational change.
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July 15, 2026
Karel Hrubec
Observable behaviors in artificial intelligence and human consciousness research are often mistakenly taken as proof of deeper internal properties, such as interpreting fluent self-description as genuine subjectivity. This paper introduces a claim–evidence discipline requiring domain-specific evidence to justify moving from observable manifestations to claims about latent states, using two ordinal maps to identify unjustified leaps. The framework integrates preregistration, sham conditions, negative controls, and other safeguards, and is applied separately to AI evaluation and human-consciousness research without treating them as equivalent. A worked feasibility protocol and construct-existence test illustrate how to empirically study lived presence. The main contribution is a transferable methodological architecture for preventing unjustified transitions from what a system displays to what it is claimed to contain.
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July 15, 2026
Haiqing Wan
Consciousness research lacks standardized quantitative methods. This manifesto proposes a framework that breaks the stream of consciousness into discrete, labelable units called thought-moments. It introduces Thought Entropy (TE), a metric based on Shannon information entropy to quantify mental order or disorder, and a cognitive temporal unit, the Euler (E), calibrated to the minimum interval between thought-moment onsets tied to cortical oscillations. The framework integrates Eastern Abhidhamma phenomenology, the Experience Sampling Method, and EEG/fMRI neuroimaging into a three-layer mapping pipeline. It adopts temporal isomorphism between mental and neural dynamics as a quantitative tool, bracketing ontological debates, and outlines potential applications in mental health screening, meditation assessment, cognitive load monitoring, and attention training.
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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
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
Sandra Regina (Sandra Anaki - Deva Yasha) Pereira
The article proposes a theoretical-practical correlation between the transition of consciousness described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) and Alexander Lowen's concepts of grounding and bodily grace in Bioenergetic Analysis. It argues that Bardo states—constant cycles of death and rebirth—are not merely metaphysical events but continuous somatic processes occurring in the musculature, respiration, and the body's energetic flow. The article analyzes nervous system dysregulation that arises when seeking altered states of consciousness without proper biological and somatic grounding. It proposes therapeutic body management through containment, oil application, and touch as the indispensable somatic foundation for returning to reality, serving as a basis for integrated, ethical, and transdisciplinary work with psychotherapy and psychiatry.
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July 14, 2026
Melissa Carter
NMDA receptor modulation can be viewed as a single bidirectional pharmacological axis, with ketamine (an NMDA antagonist) and glycine-site enhancers such as sarcosine and D-serine (NMDA agonists/enhancers) at opposite poles. Both directions have documented human trial evidence in separate literatures: ketamine in anesthesia and depression research, glycine-site enhancers in schizophrenia adjunct treatment. This paper reviews that evidence, distinguishes anesthesia-induced unconsciousness from NMDA-mediated restorative sleep architecture, and proposes that glycine-site enhancers may be an underexplored candidate for sleep restoration in NMDA-hypofunction states such as sleep-disrupted neurodegenerative disease. Specific testable predictions are outlined, with limitations distinguishing established findings from hypotheses.
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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.