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
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.
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.
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
Im Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (1940-2026)
Ein Nachruf.
shorturl.at/spKfp
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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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 @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...
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...
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
#Bewusstseinskultur #ConLab
Über den Auftakt des ConLab in Freiburg:
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
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
#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.
#Bewusstseinskultur #MPE
Der existentielle Zug der Bewusstseinsforschung:
#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.
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
„Man kann nur hoffen, dass sich die #Parapsychologie weiter ausbreitet“
Unser Kollege @marcwittmann.bsky.social über die Forschung am IGPP
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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...
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
Der Meditationsforscher Ulrich Ott, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am IGPP, berät Menschen in spirituellen oder meditationsbedingten Krisen
Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference osf.io/preprints/ps...
Christopher Timmermann
profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.timmermann...
wins the €20.000,- "2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize" with this contribution:
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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:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
