Ramin Bidari

Addiction and obsessive behaviors are commonly interpreted as disorders of the brain’s reward system. However, many dominant models in neuroscience overlook the role of the search for meaning, identity, and existential peace in intensifying these cycles. This article presents an interdisciplinary conceptual framework at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of consciousness, and spirituality, proposing that … Read more

This paper introduces the concept of Cognitive Arrest (Brain Stop) as a condition in which the natural flow of awareness becomes interrupted within recorded, repetitive, and conditioned neural patterns. In this state, instead of moving freely in the present moment, awareness becomes trapped in past emotional data, engrams, and anxiety-based loops. Through the selective amplification … Read more

This article presents a conceptual framework at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and spirituality, in which the “present moment” is considered the only point of access to direct experience and truth. Within this perspective, what humans perceive as experience is often a combination of current perception and memory-based reconstructions generated by the brain. … Read more