Cyril Costines
@costines.bsky.social
Scientific Study of Consciousness. Psychedelics. Meditation. Floatation. https://www.costines.info/
Watch my talk at the Floatation Tank Association webinar, May 28, 2026: Changing Self and Time: Altered States During and After Floatation-REST www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1O...
Floatation Tank Association - Altered States During and After Floatation-REST Dr. Marc Whittmann
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Subjective exceptional experiences are more common—and more transformative—than we think. Our research explores their link to meaning, self-transcendence, and awakening | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sens...
Subjective Exceptional Experiences in Self-Transformation
Subjective exceptional experiences are more common—and more transformative—than we think. New research explores their link to meaning, self-transcendence, and awakening.
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Our Special Issue on Investigating Extra-Sensory Experiences & Consciousness through Qualitative Research, edited by @donnamthomas.bsky.social and me. We welcome qualitative studies exploring this under-researched area for an understanding of consciousness think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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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Embodied time: From everyday experience to timelessness in altered states of consciousness talk by @marcwittmann.bsky.social at the European Summer Research Institute (ESRI) at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde, Salzkammergut, Austria, 25.–29.7.26 @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social shorturl.at/tgdST
Our colleague, parapsychologist Michael Nahm, on “The Strange Phenomenon of Terminal Lucidity” published in The New York Times Magazine (paywall) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m... #TerminalLucidity
The Strange Phenomenon of ‘Terminal Lucidity’
As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.
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Talk from @marcwittmann.bsky.social „Entangled with the world: Subjective time and self during altered states of consciousness“ Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time on “Time and Entanglement“, University of Cagliari, 28.6.–3.7.26 shorturl.at/FKCp0
New Release: Psychedelic Harm Reduction (Springer, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences). Featuring a chapter by @titoschmi.bsky.social and Cyril @costines.bsky.social on the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences shorturl.at/jQp4d
Psychedelic Harm Reduction
This book on psychedelic harm reduction discusses psychedelic-related disorders such as psychosis, dissociative symptoms and anxiety and their treatment.
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Toward a Computational Phenomenology of Meditative Deconstruction: “Letting Go” and the Deconstruction of Experience With Active Inference
Abstract. Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception, and more pleasant experience. However, the c...
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View of An algorithmic agent model of pure awareness and minimal experiences | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
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Meditierende für Floating-Studie gesucht. Cyril @costines.bsky.social #Flotation #Meditation #Conlab shorturl.at/5BxqX
Secular Mysticism: Entanglements of Science and Religion in Psychedelic Medicine pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42050063/ What I find interesting about the psychedelic boom is that we've been here before in the 60s and 70s. Compare this 2026 paper to a 1966 one! www.jstor.org/stable/27504...
#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 decade of research exploring Floatation-REST as a non-pharmacological intervention for stress and anxiety-related disorders" - IGPP Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
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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.
The symphony of consciousness and the minimal experience of self | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
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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
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 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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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...
