The editors at Communications Psychology invite research manuscripts investigating states of consciousness, as for example induced by psychoactive substances, hypnosis, meditation, or arising as a ...

Mindfulness training may lead participants to experience disembodiment and unity – so-called altered states of consciousness – according to a new study from researchers at the University of Cambridge.

What if bacteria are conscious? New research suggests all life experiences awareness through unique lenses—and humans can ...

We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to unfamiliar places. A week in a foreign country seems much ...

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 ...

A new study finds that altered states of consciousness associated with yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and other practices are common, and mostly positive or even transformative, but that for some ...

Researchers from the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, the MIND Foundation, alongside other collaborators, have found that reductions in carbon dioxide saturation during circular breathwork ...

In Pixar’s Soul, the richly imaginative 2020 film exploring life and purpose, jazz pianist Joe Gardner often loses himself in a rapturous piano solo. As his fingers dance across the keys, the world ...

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 ...

You’re hurtling down the highway, not a car in sight. Suddenly, a large semi-truck appears out of nowhere. You’re aware of the fact that you won’t have enough time to hit the brakes, so you take ...

When you hear the words “altered state of consciousness” you may think of bellbottoms, hippies, and LSD. But some altered states have nothing to do with drugs and are more important than we may think.

In "time expansion experiences," time typically appears to expand by many orders of magnitude. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We ...