Y_3_00 — Meditation Contemplative: Subfolder Summary

Y_3_11 — Biofeedback and Neurofeedback

Biofeedback is the process of using real-time monitoring of physiological signals — heart rate, muscle tension, skin conductance, brainwave patterns — to train voluntary control over processes normally considered involun

Y_1_00 — Psychedelics Entheogens: Subfolder Summary

P_3_04 — Phenomenology — Consciousness and the Structure of Experience

Phenomenology, founded by Edmund Husserl at the turn of the 20th century, is the systematic study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear within it. Through its central methodological innovations

S_1_03 — Brain-Computer Interfaces and Consciousness Upload

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) translate neural activity into digital signals, enabling direct communication between the brain and external devices. The field spans from mature medical devices (cochlear implants: 1 mil

INTERDOC_73 — Cancer as Informational Coherence Collapse

[KEY FINDING] By isolating the progression of cancer across four distinct levels of biological organization, we find that tumorigenesis is universally preceded by a loss of systemic coherence.

K_3_02 — Embodied Cognition

Embodied cognition is a broad research program challenging the classical cognitive science view that the mind is essentially a computer processing abstract symbols in the brain. Instead, embodied cognition holds that thi

K_1_03 — Free Energy Principle and Predictive Processing

The Free Energy Principle (FEP), developed by neuroscientist Karl Friston (2006-present), is one of the most ambitious theoretical frameworks in 21st-century science: it attempts to explain the EXISTENCE, BEHAVIOR, and C

K_1_00 — Theories Frameworks: Subfolder Summary

K_1_05 — Global Workspace Theory

Global Workspace Theory (GWT), proposed by Bernard Baars (1988) and neurally formalized by Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux as the Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW, 1998–2011), is one of the leading scientific th

K_4_05 — Synchronicity, Meaningful Coincidence, and Acausal Connection

Synchronicity—defined by Carl Jung as "meaningful coincidence with no causal connection"—represents one of the most provocative concepts at the intersection of psychology, physics, and philosophy. Developed through Jung'

K_4_13 — Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition

Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, first discovered in the early 1990s in the premotor cortex (area F5) of macaque monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, and colleagues at the University of Parma, that fire

K_4_01 — Shamanism, Entheogens & Serpent Visions

Shamanism as a cross-cultural altered-state practice is Tier 1 anthropology (Eliade 1964, Winkelman 2010). Clinical psilocybin and DMT research is Tier 1 (Griffiths 2006/2019, Strassman 2001, Davis 2021). The consistent

K_4_04 — Morphic Resonance and Sheldrake's Hypothesis

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake (b. 1942, Cambridge-trained plant physiologist) that proposes nature operates by habits, not fixed laws, and that organisms and systems are influen

K_4_06 — Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Intergenerational Transmission

Collective trauma — the psychological impact of catastrophic events on entire communities, nations, or peoples — and its intergenerational transmission across generations is one of the most important intersections of psy

K_4_07 — Biofield Science — Electromagnetic and Subtle Energy Research

Biofield science investigates the electromagnetic, acoustic, and hypothesized "subtle energy" fields associated with living organisms, spanning a spectrum from rigorous biophysics to highly contested alternative medicine

K_4_00 — Anomalous Esoteric: Subfolder Summary

K_4_02 — Stigmata, Faith Healing, and Psychosomatic Phenomena

The human body can do things under the influence of belief that should not be physically possible according to conventional medical models. The placebo effect — a "sugar pill" producing measurable physiological changes —

K_4_15 — Shared Death Experiences

Shared death experiences (SDEs) are reported phenomena in which a person who is physically healthy — typically a family member, caregiver, or bystander present at a death — describes experiencing some or all of the featu

K_4_08 — Parapsychology — Experimental Research on Psi Phenomena

Parapsychology is the scientific study of purported psychic phenomena — telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis (collectively termed "psi") — using experimental methods. Originating with J.B. Rhine's car