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Cyril Costines
@costines.bsky.social
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Researching consciousness and its altered states induced by psychedelics, meditation, and floatation. https://www.costines.info/
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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.
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Im Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (1940-2026)

Ein Nachruf.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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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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January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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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
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January 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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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...
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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November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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...
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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...
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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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
January 19, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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#Bewusstseinskultur #ConLab

Über den Auftakt des ConLab in Freiburg:
Contemplative Lab: Gemeinsam eine Bewusstseinskultur entstehen lassen
Das Contemplative Lab versteht sich als Projekt zur Schaffung einer Bewusstseinskultur jenseits religiöser Dogmatik im Dialog mit kontemplativer Praxis und moderner Wissenschaft. Über den Auftakt des ...
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January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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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
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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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January 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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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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January 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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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
Society for Mind-Matter Research
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December 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#Bewusstseinskultur #ConLab

Costines, C. & Trautwein, F.-M. (2025). Contemplative Lab: Vom inneren Forschungslabor zur partizipativen Bewusstseinsforschung. Bewusstseinswissenschaften, Transpersonale Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 31(2), 89–90.
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#Bewusstseinskultur #MPE

Der existentielle Zug der Bewusstseinsforschung:
December 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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#Erwachen #MPE #0PP

Costines, C. (2025). Des blinden Flecks Strahlkraft: Phänomenologie non-dualen Gewahrseins im alltagsweltlichen Geschehen – aus der „Nullte-Person-Perspektive“ eines Praktizierenden der Karma-Kagyü-Tradition. Bewusstseinswissenschaften, 31(2), 17–33.
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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„Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die #Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet“
Unser Kollege @marcwittmann.bsky.social über die Forschung am IGPP
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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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December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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CoFo – Request for Proposals: Toward a Science of Awakening
LOI applications are open through December 15th, 2025 for our Toward a Science of Awakening RFP.
www.cofo.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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...
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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
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November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Der Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IGPP, berät Menschen in spirituellen oder meditationsbedingten Krisen
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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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November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Christopher Timmermann
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wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution:
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November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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George Deane and Daphne Demekas win the € 20.000,- Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize
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for 2025 with this contribution:
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November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM