“An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls… A peace for gods; a divine emptiness.”

In this paper, I argue for a novel phenomenological approach to understanding the phenomenon of hearing voices or auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) in schizophrenia. I aim to elucidate the inherent ...

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

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This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.

Felt presence (FP) involves sensing another social entity nearby without clear, corresponding evidence. Characteristics of FP depend on context. Previous work suggests FP is meaningful and welcomed...

Experiencing awe makes us happier, healthier and more fulfilled. Why not watch the Perseid meteor shower to have a bit more awe in your life?

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Paranoia is commonly conceptualized along a continuum ranging from transient suspiciousness and mistrust to fixed persec

“Faith is the willingness to give ourselves over, at times, to things we do not fully understand… the full engagement with this strange and shimmering world.”

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Senses

“If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.”

This essay is adapted from Traversal. We look at a thing — a bird, a ball, a planet — and perceive it to be a certain color. But what we are really seeing is the color that does not inh…

Carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience int...

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This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest metaphors for our own lives — a polished lens on the quality of attention we pay the world. “The…

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

Podcast Episode · Embrace The Void · May 20 · 1h 10m

Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.

Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.

B-SNIP Biotypes of Psychosis

Given that mind–body interventions constitute a major portion of complementary and alternative medicine used by the public, it seems important to explore those human characteristics that may contribut...

Cell Research - A neuronal basis for mental imagery

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan.

100 films on themes related to madness, mental illness, & addiction.