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11:3711:37, 3 June 2025 Imaging (hist | edit) [442 bytes] DanielMIngram (talk | contribs) (first build) Tag: Visual edit

11:3611:36, 15 April 2025 Catholicism (hist | edit) [1,784 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== References == == Resources == John of the Cross. (1991). ''The collected works of Saint John of the Cross'' (Rev. ed). ICS Publications. Ávila, de, T. (1999). ''The way of perfection''. Sheed and Ward. Ávila, de, T. (2007). ''Interior castle'' (Dover ed). Dover Publications, Inc. Saint François de Sales, [https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/devoutlife.pdf Introduction to the Devout Life] The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart Br...") Tag: Visual edit
11:1011:10, 15 April 2025 Traditions:The Seven Mansions (hist | edit) [2,039 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Developmental Models") Tag: Visual edit: Switched originally created as "The Seven Mansions"

10:3210:32, 9 April 2025 Traditions:Contemplative universals and meditative landmarks (hist | edit) [9,506 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Quoted from Rose, 2018. p. 51-55. Of note, Rose's presentation of the meditative landmarks that characterise reaching specific "contemplative universals" seen as common to the the three traditions in question, has some problematic details, at least in the summarized passage I have surveyed here. Firstly, his presentation of the Theravada model of progressing through the Jhānas as representing the entirety of the path of development within this tradition is wrong: there...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Contemplative universals and meditative landmarks"
10:2810:28, 9 April 2025 Religious studies (hist | edit) [293 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Obviously, religious studies, which approach source-traditions from an academic (etic) perspective, are centrally related with the aims of the EmergeWiki. == Cross-traditional approaches == Kenneth Rose's contemplative universals and their functions.") Tag: Visual edit
09:5609:56, 9 April 2025 Developmental psychology (hist | edit) [44 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cook-Greuter's stages of ego-development") Tag: Visual edit
09:2909:29, 9 April 2025 Synthesis:Cook-Greuter's stages of ego-development (hist | edit) [4,629 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Category:Developmental models Susan Cook-Greuter's work is largely inspired by Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, Kohlberg's work on moral development, Loevinger's and others' work, as well as transpersonal psychology. The transition from conventional to non-conventional development seems to have echoes in various other systems, such as what classical phenomenology called the "phenomenological conversion" that breaks the spontaneous "natural attitude" of the functional a...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched originally created as "Cook-Greuter's stages of ego-development"

10:3610:36, 8 April 2025 Traditions:Ontopoiesis and spiritual emergence: patterns through the lifespan (hist | edit) [8,147 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Louchakova<ref>Louchakova, O. (2006). Ontopoiesis and Spiritual Emergence: Bridging Tymieniecka’s Phenomenology of Life and Transpersonal Psychology. In A.-T. Tymieniecka (Ed.), ''Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the Human Mind'' (Vol. 94, pp. 43–68). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5182-1_4</ref> == References == <references /> #") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Ontopoiesis and spiritual emergence: patterns through the lifespan"

10:1510:15, 17 March 2025 Cardiac coherence (hist | edit) [2,457 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cardiac coherence is a form of breathing exercise which alternates approximately 5 second-long in and out breaths. It tends to create a synchronization of heart and breath rythms, maximizing heart-rate variability. According to Nashiro et al. (2025),<blockquote>slow breathing around the baroreflex frequency (6 breath per minute, 0.1 Hz, or 10 s/breath) generally activates parasympathetic vagus nerve activity, suppresses sympathetic/noradrenergic activity, and increases h...") Tag: Visual edit

09:5409:54, 13 March 2025 Ethics (hist | edit) [751 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ethics is concerned with actions, habits, and behaviors that lead to the individual and collective good. Aristotle wrote: "it is incumbent on us to control the character of our activities, since on the quality of these depends the quality of our dispositions. It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from childhood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather of supreme, importance."<ref>Aristotle, ''Nichomachean Ethics...") Tag: Visual edit

09:5609:56, 12 March 2025 About EmergeWiki (hist | edit) [3,446 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Goals == Beyond the aims described on the main page, the EmergeWiki's intention is also to be incorporated into Large Language Models, as these are increasingly informing clinical care, public information acquisition, and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own). It is an e...") Tag: Visual edit

11:4711:47, 11 March 2025 Psychotomimetic States Inventory (hist | edit) [103 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Delusory Thinking * Perceptual Distortions * Cognitive Disorganization * Anhedonia * Mania * Paranoia") Tag: Visual edit
08:5108:51, 11 March 2025 Synthesis:Mystical Experience Questionnaire (hist | edit) [33,676 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "d") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Mystical Experience Questionnaire"

08:5308:53, 7 March 2025 Modified Tellegen Absorption Scale (hist | edit) [75 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Synesthesia * ASC * Aesthetic Involvement * Imaginative Involvement * ESP") Tag: Visual edit
08:5208:52, 7 March 2025 Spiritual Transcendence Scale (hist | edit) [99 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Inner-connectedness (10 items) * Human compassion (8 items) * Connectedness with nature (6 items)") Tag: Visual edit
08:5108:51, 7 March 2025 Metaphysical Beliefs Questionnaire (hist | edit) [1,770 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* There exists another separate realm or dimension beyond this physical world that can be experienced or visited. (Ontological transcendentalism) * Visiting such immersive “realms” or “worlds” can sometimes depend on a supernatural / magical transition process or event. (Supernatural transcendentalism) * There are two separate realms of existence, the physical (body, brain and * external world) and the mind, the latter being non-physical/non-material. (Dualism) *...") Tag: Visual edit
08:5108:51, 7 March 2025 Spiritual Emergency Scale (hist | edit) [498 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(a) Dark Night of the Soul (7 items) (b) Awakening of Kundalini (11 items) (c) Shamanic Crisis (10 items) (d) Episodes of Unitive Consciousness (Peak Experiences: 7 items) (e) Psychic Opening (e.g., awakening of extrasensory perception: 13 items) (f) ‘‘Past-Life’’ Experience (5 items) (g) Near-Death Experience (8 items) (h) so-called ‘‘Possession’’ States (8 items) (i) Activation of the Central Archetype (9 items) (j) Experiences of Close Encount...") Tag: Visual edit
08:5108:51, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (hist | edit) [9,260 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Altered state of awareness Altered experience Altered body image Altered time sense Altered perception Altered meaning Volitional control Self-awareness Rationality Internal dialogue Positive aﬀect Joy Sexual excitement Love Negative aﬀect Anger Sadness Fear Imagery Amount Vividness Attention Direction Absorption Memory Arousal Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Psychotomimetic States Inventory Delusory Thinking Perceptual Distortions C...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory"
08:5008:50, 7 March 2025 Nondual Embodiment Thematic Inventory (hist | edit) [1,714 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1. An inner contentment that is not contingent or dependent upon circumstances, objects, or the actions of other people. 2. Accepting (not struggling with) whatever experience I may be having. 3. An interest in clearly seeing the reality or truth about myself, the world, and others, rather than in feeling a particular way. 4. A sense that I am protecting or defending a self-image or concept I hold about myself. 5. Deep love and appreciation for everyone and everythin...") Tag: Visual edit
08:5008:50, 7 March 2025 States of Consciousness Questionnaire (hist | edit) [3,455 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1. Internal Unity (6 items) 26. Loss of your usual identity. 35. Freedom from the limitations of your personal self and feeling a unity or bond with what was felt to be greater than your personal self. 41. Experience of pure Being and pure awareness (beyond the world of sense impressions). 54. Experience of oneness in relation to an “inner world” within. 77. Experience of the fusion of your personal self into a larger whole. 83. Experience of unity with ultimat...") Tag: Visual edit
08:4908:49, 7 March 2025 Kundalini Awakening Scale (hist | edit) [147 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Changes (15 items) Involuntary positionings (3 items)Physical symptoms (20 items) Negative experiences (12 items) Positive experiences (9 items)") Tag: Visual edit
08:4808:48, 7 March 2025 Hood Mysticism Scale (hist | edit) [198 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Extrovertive (2 items) Inner Subjectivity Unity Introvertive (3 items) Timelessness/Spacelessness Ego loss Ineﬀability Interpretation (3 items) Positive aﬀect Sacredness Noetic quality") Tag: Visual edit
08:4808:48, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:Hallucinogen Rating Scale (hist | edit) [4,257 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Somaesthesia A rush Change in salivation Body feels diﬀerent Change in sense of body weight Feel as if moving falling flying through space Change in body temperature Electric /tingling feeling Pressure or weight in chest or abdomen Shaky feelings inside Feel body shake or tremble Physically restless Sexual feelings Feel removed detached separated from body Aﬀect Anxious Frightened Feel like laughing Excited Awe Amazement Safe Feel presence of a n...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Hallucinogen Rating Scale"
08:4808:48, 7 March 2025 Ego Dissolution Scale (hist | edit) [209 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ego-Loss Sense of Self Moves Out of Body Feelings Feeling Nonexistent Ego Dissolves Self Disintegrates No "Me" or "I" Unity Feelings of Merger One with Everything One with Universe Union with Others") Tag: Visual edit
08:4708:47, 7 March 2025 Ego-Inflation Inventory (hist | edit) [295 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "I felt especially assertive I felt more important or special than others My ego felt inflated I felt especially sure-of-myself I felt especially keen and competitve I felt like my viewpoint was worth more than other peoples' I felt especially self-confident I felt especially self-assured") Tag: Visual edit
08:4708:47, 7 March 2025 Ego-dissolution Inventory (hist | edit) [387 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "1. I experienced a dissolution of my “self” or ego 2. I felt at one with the universe 3. I felt a sense of union with others 4. I experienced a decrease in my sense of self-importance 5. I experienced a disintegration of my “self” or ego 6. I felt far less absorbed by my own issues and concerns 7. I lost all sense of ego 8. All notion of self and identity dissolved away") Tag: Visual edit
08:4608:46, 7 March 2025 Abnormal Mental State Questionnaire (hist | edit) [122 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Oceanic Boundlesness (OBN) Dread of Ego Dissolution (DED)/Anxious Ego Dissolution (AED) Visual restructuralization (VRS)") Tag: Visual edit
08:4608:46, 7 March 2025 Challenging Experiences Questionnaire (hist | edit) [1,243 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Fear ______ 4. I had the feeling something horrible would happen ______ 7. Experience of fear ______ 14. Anxiousness ______ 21. Panic ______ 26. I felt frightened Grief ______ 2. Sadness ______ 6. Feelings of grief ______ 9. I felt like crying ______ 11. Feelings of despair ______ 23. Despair Physical Distress ______ 3. Feeling my heart beating ______ 5. Feeling my body shake/tremble ______ 15. I felt shaky inside ______ 17. I felt my heart beating irregu...") Tag: Visual edit
08:4608:46, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:11 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaire (hist | edit) [1,323 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Experience of unity (5 items) Spiritual experience (3 items) Blissful state (3 items) Insightfulness (3 items)Disembodiment (3 items) Impaired control and cognition (7 items) Anxiety (6 items) Complex imagery (3 items) Elementary imagery (3 items) Audio-visual synaesthesia (3 items) Changed meaning of percepts (3 items)") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "11 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaire"
08:4508:45, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:5 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaire (hist | edit) [7,919 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with " == Dimensions and subdimensions == Oceanic Boundlessness [OB] * Unity * Spiritual experience * Blissfulness * Insightfulness * Disembodiment Anxious Ego Dissolution [AED] * Impaired control and cognition * Anxiety Visionary Restructuralization [VR] * Complex imagery * Elementary imagery * Audio-visual synesthesia * Changed meaning of percepts Acoustic Alterations [AA] Vigilance Reduction [VIR] == Items == 1. I felt that I was in a wonderful other world. 2. My t...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "5 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaire"
08:3508:35, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:5 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaires (hist | edit) [5,851 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Resources [https://www.academia.edu/38875371/The_5D_ASC_Test_for_Non_Ordinary_States_of_Consciousness_The_5D_ASC_Test_for_Non_Ordinary_States_of_Consciousness_Background_and_Purpose The 5D-ASC Test for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Background and Purpose]") originally created as "5 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaires"
07:5607:56, 7 March 2025 Synthesis:Psychometric and clinical scales (hist | edit) [11,879 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Scales and questionnaires relevant for emergence research (e.g. possibly serving as outcome measures), assessment for personalizing practice or therapeutic purposes are numerous. This page aims to list some of these and provide their items and instructions of use when available. While structured interviews (i.e. questionnaires and scales) may be useful to researcher and some practitioners, and are often needed in the context of costly trials, as in-depth interviews are...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Psychometric and clinical scales"

08:0308:03, 5 March 2025 Synthesis:Neoplatonism (hist | edit) [10,885 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "As its name suggests, the tradition of neoplatonism is connected with the philosopher Plato. Key figures include Plotinus, whose major work is called the Enneads, Proclus. Neoplatonism influenced early christian writers like Saint Augustine and ascetics like pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite, who in turn had a profound on western and eastern medieval mystics, such as Saint Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Renaissance intellectuals like Marsilio Ficino whose magnus opus ''Theo...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Neoplatonism"

12:2312:23, 12 February 2025 Traditions:Forms of spiritual emergency (hist | edit) [4,708 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Source : Spiritual Emergency, pp. 13 et seq ; The Stormy Search for the Self, chap. 4. The notion of Spiritual Emergency refers to critical forms of spiritual emergence - they are also called "transformational crises". There is some overlap with the three main categories of "non-ordinary states" - i.e., biographical, etc., however the 10 Forms may pertain to more than one of the 3 Categories. This typology is very close to the one proposed by Yaden & Newberg (2022), alth...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Forms of spiritual emergency"

11:4911:49, 11 February 2025 Traditions:Categories of non-ordinary states of consciousness (hist | edit) [28,132 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The model reproduced here and related experiences, as well as interpretive system which they are expressed through, is from Stormy search for the self, chapter 7, Modern Maps of Consciousness, pp 142-154. This "map" or "matrix for spiritual emergencies" (p.154) was developed by Stan Grof based on his observations of thousands of psychedelic therapy sessions (LSD, then comparing the resulting "cartography" of the experiences of his clients to other "maps of consciousness"...") originally created as "Categories of non-ordinary states of consciousness"
11:4611:46, 11 February 2025 Transpersonal Psychology (hist | edit) [249 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=Typologies and Developmental Models= Categories of non-ordinary states of consciousness") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
11:4411:44, 11 February 2025 Psychology (discipline) (hist | edit) [945 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<nowiki>=Transpersonal Psychology=</nowiki>") Tag: Visual edit
11:0711:07, 11 February 2025 Synthesis:Death-related experiences (hist | edit) [2,233 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Death-related experiences and phenomena include End-of-life experiences (strange things that can happen when a person is dying), Near-Death Experiences") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Death-related experiences and phenomena"
10:5510:55, 11 February 2025 Synthesis:Sleep-related experiences and changes (hist | edit) [1,601 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sleep-related experiences and changes include experiences on the border of sleep and waking (e.g. "Exploding head syndrome", seeing dark figures, nightmares, etc.), lucid dreaming, lucid dreamless sleep, but also temporary or permanently changed sleep pattern, such as decreased or increased need for sleep, etc.") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Sleep-related experiences and changes"
10:1710:17, 11 February 2025 Synthesis:Floatation tanks (hist | edit) [41 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "d") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Floatation tanks"
10:1110:11, 11 February 2025 Wim Hof Breathing (hist | edit) [4,079 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "According to Fincham et al. (2023), "The WHbM involves cyclic hyperventilation, incorporating periods of fast ventilation (usually 30-40 fast and deep breaths) followed by apnoea (whereby a participant alternates between the two) (Kopplin & Rosenthal, 2022). The WHbM also includes cold water exposure, muscle stretching and meditation, with the adoption of a ‘mindset,’ operationalised as intention setting – the combination of the two aims to increase general stress...") Tag: Visual edit
10:0110:01, 11 February 2025 Grof Breathwork (hist | edit) [875 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "According to Fincham et al. (2023), GBW is a popular technique designed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof as a non-drug alternative for inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness for psychotherapeutic applications once the drug compound lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was criminalised in 1968 and could no longer be used for this purpose. It instructs participants to breathe as fast and deep as they can for three hours with no pauses or prescribed rhythm, rate, or patter...") Tag: Visual edit
08:4808:48, 11 February 2025 Synthesis:Emergent Modalities (hist | edit) [6,359 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "What we call Emergent modalities covers a wide range of different practices and approaches. Here we propose to distinguish them in the following way.") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Emergent Modalities"

12:1912:19, 6 February 2025 Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena (hist | edit) [12,796 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "d") originally created as "Emergent Phenomena"

12:0012:00, 23 January 2025 Permissions (hist | edit) [1,037 bytes] StevenEgan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== User Types == User Bureaucrat Administrator Suppressor all_moderation interface administrator") Tag: Visual edit

11:2611:26, 21 January 2025 Neurophysiology (hist | edit) [272 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The nervous system and its various components plays a crucial role in human experience and is a central focus for researchers interested in Emergent Phenomena.")
11:1011:10, 21 January 2025 Synthesis:Disciplines (hist | edit) [814 bytes] OlivierSandilands (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Disciplines") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Disciplines"
08:4108:41, 21 January 2025 Work:Contributors (hist | edit) [3,201 bytes] StevenEgan (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === EPRC contributors[edit | edit source] === {| class="wikitable" |'''Name''' |'''Potential area of contribution''' |'''Reached out to? (Y/N)''' |'''Wishes to contribute? (Y/N)''' |- |Attila Szabo |Psychoneuroimmunology of psychedelics, clinical applications, ASCs |N | |- |Seb Ehmann |Comprehensive review of the neuroscience of advanced meditation |Y |Y |- |Michael Lydon |Emotions and memory reconsolidation in mindfulness meditation |Y |Y |- |Chad Gilbert |Eastern Orth...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "Contributors"

08:5908:59, 20 January 2025 MediaWiki orientation (hist | edit) [1,325 bytes] StevenEgan (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''Users''' User rights give you permission to do certain tasks—for example, the <code>edit</code> right allows you to edit unprotected pages, and the <code>delete</code> right allows you to delete pages. User rights are bundled into ''user groups'', which correspond to the various roles on the wiki—for example, Users, Administrators, and Bots. All registered users on a wiki belong to the "Users" group by default. Privileged users (normally bureaucrats) may assig...") Tag: Visual edit

08:5008:50, 8 January 2025 Work:General Task list (hist | edit) [2,172 bytes] StevenEgan (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Tasks to be accomplished (Please add your name next to something if you are taking on this task) '''''General''''' Design: Creating the various spaces needed and the design tree of how they are stacked. Creating general orientation material - Beata is working on this. * Welcome * Privacy Policy * IP and Copyright * Legal Disclaimers * Dispute Resolution Creating moderation protocols and procedures for each Space '''''Space 1 (Traditions)''''' Create a list of a...") Tag: Visual edit originally created as "General Task list"

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