Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) • June 30, 2026 • Mircea Magureanu
Vajrayana Buddhist deity yoga transformation is modeled using concepts from signal modulation, control systems, and field emanation theory. The mind's triadic baseline (Sem, Lo, Thugs) and the materialization of form from the ordinary physical body (Lus) to the enlightened dimension (Sku/Nirmanakaya) are analyzed. Nine dramatic moods (Gar-gyi Ro-dgu) act as frequency modulations over the blind carrier kinetic energy of consciousness (Sem), rendering the false egoic self-construct (Dak) dormant. The Lineage Blessing during ritual (Puja) down-links absolute, self-arising reality (Rang) through Samaya, replacing the disciple's conditioned egoic apparatus and projecting an illusory body (Tulpa) as an automated cybernetic feedback loop for spiritual protection.
Figshare • January 28, 2026 • Mark Lemon
Conscious experience can be understood as a process mediated by an aperture—a bandwidth of awareness—that operates over an invariant geometric structure. The model proposes a twelve-fold toroidal thoughtform that can be partitioned into focal lenses, each describable as an archetypal attractor, phase sector, symmetry class, or developmental band. A central control parameter, aperture, regulates the balance between differentiation and integration, producing distinct experiential octaves. Consciousness units aggregate into metastable configurations depending on aperture width, forming gestalts whose scale matches the active bandwidth. Subjective experience occurs within these constraints rather than being generated by content alone. The framework is interdisciplinary and designed for future formalization and empirical operationalization.
Open MIND • January 1, 2026 • Yang Wan
The Multi-Cognitive Regime Architecture (MCRA) V5 reconceptualizes the mind as a dynamic runtime system rather than a static module structure. It defines seven cognitive regimes—integrative, homeostatic, social-norm, logical-reasoning, adaptive-neural, affective-anchoring, and perceptual-encoding memory—each a distinct runtime configuration of the same neural hardware. Hebb's Rule serves as the meta-rule: all cognitive structures are shaped by experience through the same plasticity mechanism. The framework provides unified mechanistic explanations across dreaming, Dissociative Identity Disorder, major depression, and LLM hallucinations. It generates independent, operational falsifiability conditions for all seven regimes, advancing the theory from a philosophical proposal to a testable scientific hypothesis.
December 11, 2025 • Satoko Fujiwara, Hiroki Miura
Young adults in Japan are developing new forms of religiosity that blend digital, fictional, and embodied practices, challenging traditional frameworks. The authors introduce "2.5-dimensional religion" and "subjective ritualization" to capture how practices like oshi-katsu (fan devotion), 2.5-D musicals, tulpa creation, and anime pilgrimage blur reality and imagination. These activities shift from narrative-based subjective myths to participatory subjective rituals, expressing religiosity through affective ties and performative engagements in both physical and digital environments. The work offers a new theoretical lens for understanding religion in an age of fragmented identities and technological mediation.
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY • November 29, 2025 • Claudia Simone Dorchain
A new structural theory explains mass manipulation by combining heterotopia, ritual, and egregor. Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia—spaces that are other—is extended to show these spaces are deliberately used to shape collective consciousness. The formula 'heterotopia + ritual = egregor' frames the theory. Heterotopias are differentiated into corrective (Apollonian) and de-individualising (Dionysian) types, with architectural coding (linear, rectangular, circular) producing specific psychopolitical effects. Ritual dynamics amplify collective recoding, and the egregor emerges as a group consciousness. In digital modernity's borderless world, new ritual spaces are needed to counter fragmentation.
Incursiuni în imaginar • November 2, 2024 • Ayusman Chakraborty
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Debjan (1946) depicts an afterlife where dead protagonists travel through multiple parallel worlds. Although Bandyopadhyay is often seen as a realist writer, this novel reveals his imaginative power by blending orthodox Hindu beliefs with Theosophy, a Western occult movement that claimed roots in Eastern religions. The article highlights how Bandyopadhyay uses Theosophical concepts like "thought form" and "tulpa"—the idea that mental constructs can be made real through spiritual training—to show spirits creating imaginary worlds. This mingling of Eastern and Western spiritualism makes Debjan a unique literary site of cultural encounter, a point previously overlooked by critics.
Journal of Avant-Garde Studies • August 15, 2024 • Michael Richardson
Surrealism claims to be revolutionary, but the nature of that revolution is unclear. The movement's early relationship with the French Communist Party ended in disillusionment by the 1930s, and later engagements with Trotskyism and anarchism were similarly disappointing. Even the initial enthusiasm for the 1959 Cuban Revolution faded. This article reexamines what revolution meant for the Surrealists as totalitarianism emerged, focusing on Pierre Mabille's 1937 concept of egregores—the process by which groups solidify into entities capable of social and political change—and François Jullien's idea of silent transformations.
Social Compass • June 1, 2024 • Satoko Fujiwara, Hiroki Miura • 2 citations
In contemporary Japanese youth culture, the boundary between religious and non-religious practices is blurring, shaped by three key concepts: 'practicing belonging', 'vicarious spirituality', and 'gendered fetishism'. These are illustrated through the phenomenon of 'tulpa'—created paranormal beings derived from Tibetan Buddhism—along with other examples. The article argues that what may appear religious to Japanese scholars might not be viewed as such by Western scholars, and that factors transforming religiousness in Japan affect not only spiritual but also secular settings, leading to parallel phenomena.
Electronic workshops in computing • January 1, 2024 • Ana Bandeira
Online posting can be understood as a machinic beyond in which networks amplify the proliferating potential of memetic egregores—collective thought-forms. Posting like a machine means relinquishing a monolithic identity to build multiple new ones, as if trained by the collective intelligence of online rings through swarms of collective posting. This practice questions traditional copyright frameworks while celebrating appropriation, spontaneous collaboration, post-authorship, and performative identity. Encapsulating concerns such as extinction, love, and collapse, these communing rituals embody the noosphere—a collective consciousness or interconnected network of minds. Network spirituality thus proposes new modes of being within emerging conditions of planetary existence.
Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture • November 30, 2023 • Vivian Asimos
The Slender Man, an internet-born monster from 2009, owes its lasting popularity to how its online community resolved two challenges of mass communal storytelling: narrative inconsistency, addressed through apophatic theology (defining the monster by what it is not), and the erosion of fear when stories are easily searchable online, countered by the concept of the Tulpa (a thought-form made real). Participants play with knowledge and religious ideas, generating mimetic excess that blurs the boundary between reality and fiction.