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Consciousness and Psyche
Exploring consciousness, psyche, healing, and transformation from relational and participatory perspectives.
What is consciousness?
Research Questions
- What is consciousness?
- How does consciousness participate in a living reality?
- How are mind, body, relationships, and environment interconnected?
- What role do coherence and participation play in psychological wellbeing?
- How do healing and transformation emerge?
- What can altered states, dreams, and near-death experiences reveal about consciousness?
- How do relationships shape mental health and identity?
Current Research
Consciousness studies
Archetypes
Relational psyche
Mental health
Near-death experiences
Healing and restoration
project 1
From Intrinsic Existence to Relational Participation
Explores consciousness as emerging through participation in relationships
project 2
The Relational Cosmos Reconsidered
Reinterprets consciousness within a relational cosmology linking mind, life, and the wider universe
project 3
Unus Mundus and Tjukurrpa
Brings Jung’s Unus Mundus into dialogue with Tjukurrpa to explore a unified relational understanding of reality
project 4
Archetypes as Living Fields
Reframes archetypes as dynamic relational fields that shape experience, meaning, and psychological development
project 5
Toward a Phase Conjugate Psychology
Develops a systems-based psychology in which healing emerges through the restoration of coherence.
project 6
Death as Return to Field
Reimagines death as a transition into relational continuity rather than the end of existence
project 7
Kanyini and the Relational Psyche
Explores the human psyche as fundamentally sustained through relationships of care, belonging, and responsibility
project 8
The Healing Field
Explores healing as the restoration of relational coherence across psychological, biological, and social dimensions
project 9
Restoration: Coherence, Healing, and Spiritual Renewal Across Living Systems
Develops a relational framework for understanding restoration across individuals, communities, and living systems
project 10
Near-Death Experiences as Developmental Integration Events
Examines near-death experiences as transformative events that reorganize identity, purpose, and consciousness
project 11
Mental Health as Relational Coherence
Proposes that mental health arises through coherent participation in relationships rather than solely through individual functioning
project 12
Xenon Anesthesia and the Collapse of Coherent Informational Integration
Investigates anesthesia as a temporary disruption of coherent informational processes underlying conscious experience.