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Cyril Costines

@costines.bsky.social
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Scientific Study of Consciousness. Psychedelics. Meditation. Floatation. www.costines.info

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wanjawiese.bsky.social @wanjawiese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
📢New: A comment on “On the minimal theory of consciousness implicit in active inference” by @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social Andrew W. Corcoran, Jonathan Robinson, Ryan Smith, Rosalyn J. Moran, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston, @anilseth.bsky.social , @hohwy.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nqAp5bD-s...
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Changing Self and Time: Altered States During and After #FloatationREST Talk by keynote speaker @marcwittmann.bsky.social at the Float Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, September 18–20, 2026. Discover the speakers and the full conference program: www.floatconference.com/speakers
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Speakers | Float Conference
See which float researchers, small business experts, and marketing gurus will be speaking at this year's Float Conference!
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
20 Jahre Forschung mit dem Fragebogen zur Phänomenologie außergewöhnlicher Erfahrungen (PAgE): Entwicklung, Befunde, Perspektiven Vortrag von Wolfgang Fach Neu auf unserem YouTube-Kanal: youtu.be/xj5gK4st5ow
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20 Jahre Forschung mit dem Fragebogen zur Phänomenologie außergewöhnlicher Erfahrungen (PAgE)
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Watch my talk at the Floatation Tank Association webinar, May 28, 2026: Changing Self and Time: Altered States During and After Floatation-REST www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1O...
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Floatation Tank Association - Altered States During and After Floatation-REST Dr. Marc Whittmann
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Subjective exceptional experiences are more common—and more transformative—than we think. Our research explores their link to meaning, self-transcendence, and awakening | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...
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Subjective Exceptional Experiences in Self-Transformation
Subjective exceptional experiences are more common—and more transformative—than we think. New research explores their link to meaning, self-transcendence, and awakening.
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our Special Issue on Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences & Consciousness through Qualitative Research, edited by @donnamthomas.bsky.social and me. We welcome qualitative studies exploring this under-researched area for an understanding of consciousness think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Special Issue: Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research
Explore Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness: Submit your work to this qualitative enquiry into the extra-sensory dimensions of human experience
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Embodied time: From everyday experience to timelessness in altered states of consciousness talk by @marcwittmann.bsky.social at the European Summer Research Institute (ESRI) at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, Salzkammergut, Austria, 25.–29.7.26 @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social shorturl.at/tgdST
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our colleague, parapsychologist Michael Nahm, on “The Strange Phenomenon of Terminal Lucidity” published in The New York Times Magazine (paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m... #TerminalLucidity
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The Strange Phenomenon of ‘Terminal Lucidity’
As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Talk from @marcwittmann.bsky.social „Entangled with the world: Subjective time and self during altered states of consciousness“ Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time on “Time and Entanglement“, University of Cagliari, 28.6.–3.7.26 shorturl.at/FKCp0
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Cyril Costines @costines.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#AgE #PalliativeCare #Studie
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#IGPPKolloquium am 16.06.26, 15.15 Uhr live oder via zoom Anmeldung erbeten: shorturl.at/XqYtI
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New Release: Psychedelic Harm Reduction (Springer, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences). Featuring a chapter by @titoschmi.bsky.social and Cyril @costines.bsky.social on the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences shorturl.at/jQp4d
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Psychedelic Harm Reduction
This book on psychedelic harm reduction discusses psychedelic-related disorders such as psychosis, dissociative symptoms and anxiety and their treatment.
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Cyril Costines @costines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It only takes three minutes to get your personalised report with the comparison to the experiences of others experiences: alteredxproject.com Enjoy and share AXP!
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All responses are completely anonymous, with no personal data collected. By taking part, you are also supporting an open citizen science initiative to support our academic research on altered states of consciousness.
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Cyril Costines @costines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Altered Xperience Project (AXP) enables you to anonymously share your subjective experiences and receive a personalised report showing how your responses align with patterns from other submissions. Find out which aspects of your experience are common or unique to different methods.
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Cyril Costines @costines.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#ASC #AXP #CIRCE Have you ever experienced an altered state of consciousness through breathwork, cannabis, stroboscopic light, floatation tanks, LSD, MDMA, meditation or psilocybin? Find out how your experience compares to that of thousands of others worldwide!
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Toward a Computational Phenomenology of Meditative Deconstruction: “Letting Go” and the Deconstruction of Experience With Active Inference
Abstract. Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception, and more pleasant experience. However, the c...
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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View of An algorithmic agent model of pure awareness and minimal experiences | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello, A Unified Architecture for Meditative Transformation: Opacification and Restructuring in Shamatha and Vipassanā - PhilArchive
Meditation research has produced extensive empirical data on the neural and psychological correlates of contemplative practice, yet lacks a unified computational framework that explains how meditation...
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Meditierende für Floating-Studie gesucht. Cyril @costines.bsky.social #Flotation #Meditation #Conlab shorturl.at/5BxqX
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Secular Mysticism: Entanglements of Science and Religion in Psychedelic Medicine pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42050063/ What I find interesting about the psychedelic boom is that we've been here before in the 60s and 70s. Compare this 2026 paper to a 1966 one! www.jstor.org/stable/27504...
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Cyril Costines @costines.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#Bewusstseinskultur #Endlichkeitskultur Sterben lernen: Psychedelika, Meditation und Floatation als Werkzeuge einer säkularen Endlichkeitskultur? www.leben-und-tod.de
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Azadeh Mozhdehfarahbakhsh @marcwittmann.bsky.social @kornmeierju.bsky.social in front of Azadeh’s poster presented at the 15th #BIALFoundation Symposium „Behind and Beyond the Brain“, Porto
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
„Nicht normal“ ist oft kein objektiver Befund, sondern ein Hinweis auf die Grenze unseres aktuellen Wissens: eine Zuschreibung für Phänomene, die wir (noch) nicht hinreichend erklären können 😉
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A decade of research exploring #Floatation-REST as a non-pharmacological intervention for stress and anxiety-related disorders Dr. Justin Feinstein, President and Director of Float Research Collective #IGPPKolloquium 3.3.26, 15:15 pm CET via zoom. Register here: shorturl.at/WhDTd
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"A decade of research exploring Floatation-REST as a non-pharmacological intervention for stress and anxiety-related disorders" - IGPP Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
Journal of Theology and Philosophy
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A new article has been published in the #PhiMiSci special issue on structuralism in the science of consciousness: "The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self" by Jeff Yoshimi and Jason Ford.
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The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq
A copy of "The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing" by Jakob Howhy on a plain background. The cover features a simple one-line illustration of a profile of a character painting a line that stems from their foot.
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Im Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (1940-2026) Ein Nachruf. shorturl.at/spKfp
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation
Despite decades of progress in the neuroscience of consciousness, prevailing empirical paradigms remain largely anchored in the study of typical, cont…
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hans Bender und das Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene Vortrag von Eberhard Bauer & Jürgen @kornmeierju.bsky.social anlässlich des 5. Pierre Janet-Symposiums am Samstag 24.01.26, 13-19 Uhr | Bender Forum, IGPP Freiburg pierre-janet.de/index.php/Ho...
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The very first micro-phenomenological study on experience during Floatation-REST from my lab at @igpp.bsky.social revealing the dynamics of how individuals enter into altered states of consciousness. Part 2 of Helena Hruby's doctoral thesis: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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The micro-phenomenology of Floatation-REST
This micro-phenomenological study examines altered states of consciousness (ASC) during Floatation-REST, a sensory isolation method where individuals lie in a tank filled with Epsom salt-saturated wat...
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The @springernature.com book "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" is out: 22 authors, 16 chapters. Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Musicology, Philosophy, ... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
An anniversary! Four years of #Floatation-REST @igpp.bsky.social research with the Floataway.com cabin at Prana Freiburg: 2 doctoral theses, 2 master's theses, 2 third-party funding acquisitions, 3 publications, and here the lastest preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Four years of research on #Floatation-REST at IGPP in the Gesundheitspraxis Prana Freiburg have led to doctoral projects by Helena Hruby and Cyril@costines.bsky.social. Thanks to the support of the Hans-Seidel-Stiftung and the Bial Foundation www.prana-freiburg.de © Tommi Nübling
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Call for Papers ! Submit your article to the Journal Qualitative Research in Psychology for a Special Issue on: Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research Co-Guest Editor: @marcwittmann.bsky.social #ConsciousnessResearch shorturl.at/VYKFF
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Special Issue: Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness through Qualitative Research
Explore Extra-Sensory Experiences and Consciousness: Submit your work to this qualitative enquiry into the extra-sensory dimensions of human experience
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Active inference, computational phenomenology, and advanced meditation: Toward the formalization of the experience of meditation
Computational phenomenology has emerged as a powerful framework for investigating advanced meditation states and stages, and meditative development an…
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Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I'm happy to announce that I've been awarded the Mind-Matter Prize by the Society for Mind-Matter Research. (See "news" at the top right). My prize-acceptance Lecture will be at the Society's Models of Consciousness Conference in Copenhagen, October 12-16, 2026. www.mindmatter.de/index.html
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Toward a neuroscience of consciousness using advanced meditation
Despite decades of progress in the neuroscience of consciousness, prevailing empirical paradigms remain largely anchored in the study of typical, cont…
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Das Geist-Materie-Problem und die Grenzen von Wahrnehmung und Erkenntnis Vortrag von @kornmeierju.bsky.social 16.12.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten: shorturl.at/domcp
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
„Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die #Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet“ Unser Kollege @marcwittmann.bsky.social über die Forschung am IGPP shorturl.at/fVolt
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Marc Wittmann: „Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet"
Wie nähert man sich paranormalen Phänomenen? Mit rigoroser Anwendung wissenschaftlicher Methoden, sagt der Psychologe Marc Wittmann. Ein Gespräch über Informationen aus der Zukunft, die Kommunikation ...
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Big Think @bigthink.com · 27/08/2025
What if there were a drug that allowed us to study consciousness in its most basic form? Christopher Timmermann describes the potential of 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic that strips away everything but awareness. Read the full article here: bigthink.com/neuropsych/5...
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Spiritualität trifft Wissenschaft - ein lebendiger Austausch zwischen spiritueller Erfahrung und wissenschaftlicher Forschung Psychologe Christian Meyer im Dialog mit Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott 28.11.25 |19:00 Uhr| LIVE vor Ort oder online via Zoom shorturl.at/k2euh
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Der Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IGPP, berät Menschen in spirituellen oder meditationsbedingten Krisen
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Christopher Timmermann profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.timmermann... wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thomas Metzinger @metzinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize mpe-project.info/wp-content/u... for 2025 with this contribution: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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IGPP @igpp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Beratung bei spirituellen und meditationsinduzierten Krisen Vortrag von Dr. Liane Hofmann & Dr. Ulrich Ott 11.11.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten: shorturl.at/fDTYT
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