#Bewusstseinskultur #Endlichkeitskultur Sterben lernen: Psychedelika, Meditation und Floatation als Werkzeuge einer säkularen Endlichkeitskultur? www.leben-und-tod.de

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

„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 😉

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.

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 pierre-janet.de/index.php/Ho...

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 [email protected]. Thanks to the support of the Hans-Seidel-Stiftung and the Bial Foundation www.prana-freiburg.de © Tommi Nübling

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

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 shorturl.at/fVolt

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: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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...

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

On November 26 our @SpringerNature book in commemoration of Bud (A.D.) Craig's legacy is out. See TOC with 14 contributions on the insular cortex, bodily self, emotion, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, pain, mindfulness, touch, music, and subjective time. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘 Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference. I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵

SUMMA PARAPSYCHOLOGICA 50 Jahre auf der Suche nach dem Heiligen Gral - Walter von Lucadou #Parapsychologie trifft Physik: Dieses Buch wirft einen wissenschaftlichen Blick auf die #Psychokinese – eine echte Herausforderung für klassische Naturwissenschaften

Koma-Erfahrungen. Eine Einführung in das Spektrum möglicher Bewusstseinszustände im Koma Vortrag von Dr. Michael Nahm 21.10.25, 18:00 Uhr | Online-Vortragsreihe zu 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg Anmeldung erbeten: shorturl.at/SZham #Parapsychologie

Lucid awareness in nonresponsive patients: A “locked-in experience” and its implications New papaer by our colleague, Michael Nahm, et al. about consciousness during coma and the traumatic locked-in experience journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/js...

My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live 🤩! First screening done, several more booked. The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #grief #psychedelics #psilocybin

On the Banks of the River Styx: New Perspectives on #TerminalLucidity and other Near-Death Phenomena Newly published book, for which our colleague Michael Nahm served as lead editor, provides an overview of current research on the topic of near-death experiences, including comas.

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

Zeit, Raum, Welt und Ich? Photobastei 2.0, Zürich, 29.10.2025, 19:00 - 21:00 Uhr: Eine Diskussion zu psychedelischen Erfahrungen und Bewusstsein mit Susanne Schmetkamp, Kurt Stocker, Marc Wittmann www.zuerich.com/de/events-na...

Zeit, Raum Welt und Ich? Wie Psychedelika uns und unser Bewusstsein verändern. Diskussion mit Susanne Schmetkamp, Kurt Stocker und @marcwittmann.bsky.social Photobastei 2.0 Zürich | 29.10.25 | 19.00 Uhr shorturl.at/gQ9zO

What if there is no unified theory of consciousness? What if there is just a motley crew of multiple generators? Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup, Morten Overgaard and I investigate what this would mean for consciousness studies. (Thanks to both of you!) academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

“Das Institut für außergewöhnliche Phänomene - 75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg“ Eberhard Bauer & @kornmeierju.bsky.social eröffnen heute, 16.09.15, 18:00 Uhr die Vortragsreihe anlässlich des 75-jährigen Jubiläums des IGPP. Anmeldung erbeten: igpp.de/aktuelles/ak...

Herzliche Einladung zu unserer Vortragsreihe „75 Jahre Grenzgebietsforschung in Freiburg“ Am 16. September geht‘s los. Online-Teilnahme möglich. Weitere Informationen unter: igpp.de/vorlesungsre...

The deadline for submissions for the 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize (€20k) is soon: Sept 30th. For the best contribution to neuroscience that substantially advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the experience of pure awareness. For details, see screenshot!

Introducing Cyril ‪@Costines.bsky.social‬, doctoral researcher studying the phenomenology and neurophysiology of minimal phenomenal experience (MPE) in the context of floatation-REST and meditation. Find out about his PhD project here: shorturl.at/Q9XSw More: www.costines.info

Zum Diskussionspapier „Soziale Medien und die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen“: www.leopoldina.org/socialmedia-kinder

🚨 New article in #NCONSC! Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity @antoinelutz.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

#PhiMiSci has recently launched a new special issue on "Structuralism and the Science of Consciousness". It opens with a new paper by David Rosenthal titled "Objective foundations for the study of mental qualities". Have a look!

The 67th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association 2025 in Freiburg has come to an end. It was already held here in 1968. The Institute would like to thank everyone for the eventful week and the many unique insights into the field. #PA2025

Stillstand in der Stille? Interview mit dem Meditiationsforscher Ulrich Ott, Autor von „Meditation für Skeptiker“ | Deutschlandfunk shorturl.at/pYUVX