During a trip, language could become temporarily irrelevant, researchers say. That speechlessness may be linked to sensing ...

Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World, guests at the Universal Orlando Resort. According to an updated report from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which is reworked ...

A peer-reviewed paper published in Frontiers in Psychology proposes that consciousness is not simply a byproduct of brain activity but instead acts as a top-down force that shapes neural processes.

Conscious experience is central to human life, yet the processes underlying its emergence remain among the most debated questions in behavioral ...

Yoga, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, and other practices are gaining in popularity due to their potential to improve health and well-being. The effects of these practices are mostly positive and ...

Breathwork while listening to music may induce a blissful state in practitioners, accompanied by changes in blood flow to emotion-processing brain regions, according to a study published in the ...

There is a long history in the fields of psychology and psychiatry of using non-ordinary states of consciousness (sometimes referred to as altered states) to facilitate deep psychological work. These ...

A recent conversation on Reddit is all about an illustration from one of my books. It’s a diagram showing a 3D space with lots of different states of consciousness depicted as blobs floating in space.