14 records spanning 2009–2026, selected for relevance to the Big Questions. The expansion adds poverty reduction, forest governance, nature connection and competing findings on group intelligence. These studies address specific parts of the questions; the collection remains selective.
12 DOI-bearing works were matched in Crossref and OpenAlex. Publication, online, issue and deposit dates are retained separately in the JSON. Provider date differences are flagged rather than silently resolved. Source collections’ overall date ranges remain unaudited.
Showing 14 of 14 records. BQ links express relevance, not a resolution of the question.
Retrospective phenomenology · 2026
France Lerner, Paulo Cezar Rocha dos Santos, Guillaume Tahar
BQ001 · BQ002
Finding: Questionnaires and drawings describe recurring spatial forms in recalled near-death experiences. Exploratory colour differences were not consistent across analyses.
Limits: Experiences occurred a median 15.1 years earlier. Medical circumstances were not independently verified; pictograms and an unblinded interviewer may influence reconstruction.
BQ Contribution: Improves description of experience; does not test survival after death or perception without a functioning brain.
Review Depth: Publisher abstract, methods and limitations inspected; no raw-data reanalysis
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Sample & Scope
- 50 participants; median recall interval 15.1 years.
Inspected Primary Sources
- Primary paper ↗ · Materials and methods; Results; Limitations (previous curation)
Discovery & Metadata: The Consciousness Library · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Qualitative focus groups · 2026
Mathieu Seynaeve, Leonie Schneider, Ian Roullier et al.
BQ005 · BQ007 · BQ011
Finding: Four former trial participants emphasised communication, agency, continuity and support after psychedelic trials ended.
Limits: Small, self-selected, white UK advocacy sample. Group discussion can encourage convergence. Industry-led patient-involvement context; no treatment-effect estimate.
BQ Contribution: Informs ethical care and integration questions; cannot establish that support produces lasting compassionate action.
Review Depth: Publisher abstract, methods and limitations inspected
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Sample & Scope
- Four former participants in three focus groups.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: The Consciousness Library · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Prospective uncontrolled workshop study · 2022
Helané Wahbeh, Garret Yount, Cassandra Vieten et al.
BQ003 · BQ010 · BQ011
Finding: Self-reported connection correlated with well-being (rho 0.27–0.33); extended-perception task performance did not.
Limits: No control group; self-selection, expectancy and shared self-report measurement limit causal interpretation.
BQ Contribution: Separates felt interconnection from extraordinary-capacity claims; leaves durable behaviour and planetary outcomes untested.
Review Depth: Author abstract via scholarly index and institutional overview; full paper not reviewed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Shared Data
- IONS Discovery Lab pilot; overlaps companion analyses
Discovery & Metadata: Institute of Noetic Sciences · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Observational workshop analysis · 2024
Bethany Butzer, Michael Kriegsman, Garret Yount et al.
BQ002 · BQ004 · BQ010
Finding: Among 725 participants, meditation frequency was associated with reported synchronicity and noetic experiences.
Limits: Associations and retrospective reports cannot establish anomalous causation; attention, expectation and interpretation are alternatives.
BQ Contribution: Helps investigate how meaningful coincidences are experienced; does not establish karma or a cosmic mechanism.
Review Depth: Author abstract via scholarly index and institutional overview; full paper not reviewed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Shared Data
- IONS Discovery Lab pilot; not independent replication of pilot findings
Discovery & Metadata: Institute of Noetic Sciences · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Cross-sectional measurement study · 2024
Helané Wahbeh, Cedric Cannard, Garret Yount et al.
BQ006 · BQ009
Finding: Creative self-belief correlated weakly with manually scored fluency (rho 0.13) and originality (rho 0.11).
Limits: Parent dataset comprised 1,179 adults; outcome-specific sample sizes differ. Creativity is not wisdom.
BQ Contribution: Encourages performance-based outcomes alongside self-ratings when evaluating intelligence and collective capacity.
Review Depth: Author abstract via scholarly index; full paper not reviewed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Shared Data
- IONS parent workshop dataset; shared cohort
Discovery & Metadata: Institute of Noetic Sciences · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Date Note: Crossref lists December 2024 publication; OpenAlex lists 1 July 2024. Retained as a provider date discrepancy, not silently reconciled.
Multi-laboratory replication and methods study · 2023
Zoltan Kekecs, Bence Palfi, Barnabas Szaszi et al.
BQ001 · BQ002 · BQ006
Finding: The replication reported 49.89% successful guesses against 50% chance, compared with 53.07% in the original study; it did not reproduce the original finding.
Limits: Evidence applies to this precognition task and protocol. Sequential stopping and model-specific thresholds matter; it does not test every psi claim or survival after death.
BQ Contribution: Provides a contrary finding and a model for transparent testing. Precognition is distinct from survival after death.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods, stopping rule and results inspected via Europe PMC; no raw-data reanalysis
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Research record
- Sample & Scope
- 2,115 analysed participants in ten laboratories across nine countries; 37,836 target trials.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Preregistered sequential analysis; random target position; four primary tests and a predefined stopping rule.
Selected Quantitative Results
- Successful guesses: 49.89 percent (99.75% confidence interval: 49.11 to 50.67). Interval from the primary mixed logistic regression; 50% chance baseline.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: BIAL Foundation Documentation Centre · Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Scholarly contextual collection · 2011
Pranab K. Das II (editor)
BQ004 · BQ005 · BQ006 · BQ008
Finding: The companion supplies 224 introductory essays situating books within science and religion.
Limits: A collection of contextual essays, not a study or a unified empirical result. Individual arguments require separate review.
BQ Contribution: Provides conceptual and cross-worldview context for ethical, causal and cosmological questions.
Review Depth: Official catalogue description only; essays not reviewed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Contextual reading; no empirical finding extracted
Discovery & Metadata: International Society for Science and Religion Library
Institutional summary of confirmatory study · 2026
IONS research team
BQ003 · BQ010 · BQ011
Finding: The overview reports a connection–well-being association; extended-capacity tasks failed to form a reliable combined measure.
Limits: No control group. Findings described as under peer review. Measurement failure leaves the extended-capacity hypothesis inadequately tested.
BQ Contribution: Prioritises measurement reliability and controlled follow-up before making causal or metaphysical claims.
Review Depth: Institutional overview only; manuscript not reviewed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Institutional account; manuscript review pending
Discovery & Metadata: Institute of Noetic Sciences
Systematic review and meta-analysis · 2018
Ute Kreplin, Miguel Farias, Inti A. Brazil
BQ003 · BQ005 · BQ010 · BQ011
Finding: The pooled analysis found a positive prosociality effect. Compassion and empathy improved; connectedness, aggression and prejudice did not show clear effects.
Limits: Generally weak study quality. Compassion’s active-control interval includes zero. Differences between subgroup significance levels alone do not prove the subgroups differ.
BQ Contribution: Tests whether contemplative practice changes social outcomes; broad claims of universal compassion require stronger controls and durable behavioural measures.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 22 articles in the systematic review (1,685 participants); 16 studies met quantitative inclusion criteria. The prose also refers to 21 studies in one descriptive paragraph.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Healthy-adult randomised trials; self-report and behavioural social outcomes.
Selected Quantitative Results
- Overall prosociality: 0.26 Pearson r (95% confidence interval: 0.18 to 0.34)
- Compassion, active-control subgroup: 0.37 Pearson r (95% confidence interval: -0.04 to 0.78)
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Meta-analysis of observational associations · 2020
Julie Whitburn, Wayne Linklater, Wokje Abrahamse
BQ008 · BQ010 · BQ011
Finding: People reporting stronger connection with nature also reported more proenvironmental behaviour.
Limits: Significant heterogeneity; scales explain some differences. Mostly western samples and self-report outcomes. Correlation does not establish direction or measured ecological benefit.
BQ Contribution: Connects felt relationship with nature to reported action; motivates controlled studies with observable ecological outcomes.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 37 samples from 26 studies; 13,237 participants. Search covered studies to 3 June 2018.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Connection-to-nature scales and reported proenvironmental behaviour.
Selected Quantitative Results
- Nature connection and proenvironmental behaviour: 0.42 Pearson r (95% confidence interval: 0.36 to 0.47)
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Date Note: 2020 is the journal issue year. Crossref online date: 12 July 2019; OpenAlex publication date: 28 June 2019. Both are retained.
Pooled analysis of group-performance studies · 2021
Christoph Riedl, Young Ji Kim, Pranav Gupta et al.
BQ006 · BQ009
Finding: A common group-performance factor fit data across the task battery; collaboration processes predicted it more strongly than individual skill overall.
Limits: All 22 samples used the same research platform. This is not an exhaustive literature meta-analysis, and predictive associations do not establish causal mechanisms or ethical wisdom.
BQ Contribution: Provides measurable teamwork outcomes for collective capacity, with task choice and generalisability left open.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 22 samples; 5,279 people in 1,356 groups of two to seven.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Task-performance correlations, factor analysis and out-of-sample prediction.
- Shared Data
- Pooled primary datasets; constituent studies must not be counted again as independent evidence.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Read Alongside: High-performing teams: Is collective intelligence the answer?
Correlational group-performance study · 2024
Luke I. Rowe, John Hattie, John Munro
BQ006 · BQ009
Finding: A two-factor model fit better than the proposed single collective-intelligence factor, suggesting task-specific dimensions of performance.
Limits: Small university sample; factor structure may depend on tasks. Academic-score validation used a self-selected subset. This challenges universality without resolving all group-intelligence research.
BQ Contribution: Keeps a substantive competing result alongside the pooled study; distinguishes effective teamwork from collective awareness or wisdom.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 85 university students in 29 groups; 30 volunteered academic assignment scores.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Individual and group task batteries; factor analysis; predictive tasks.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Read Alongside: Quantifying collective intelligence in human groups
Observational comparison of forest commons · 2009
Ashwini Chhatre, Arun Agrawal
BQ007 · BQ008 · BQ009 · BQ011
Finding: Larger forests and greater local rule-making autonomy were associated with jointly higher carbon-storage proxies and livelihood benefits.
Limits: Observational design; selection and omitted variables can confound results. Ownership and autonomy were simplified categories. Basal area is a carbon proxy, not a direct carbon-stock measurement.
BQ Contribution: Gives dynamic-balance questions concrete social and ecological outcomes; does not establish a universal governance recipe.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 80 forest commons in ten countries.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Tree basal area; household subsistence-benefit index; multinomial regression.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
Six-country randomised programme evaluation · 2015
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nathanael Goldberg et al.
BQ005 · BQ007 · BQ009 · BQ011
Finding: A package of productive assets, training and support improved economic outcomes, with gains persisting one year after completion. Mental-health gains were smaller but remained positive.
Limits: Bundled intervention cannot identify which component caused the effects. Sites and implementing organisations were selected; results do not establish universal effectiveness. Physical-health and empowerment gains were not sustained clearly at the later follow-up.
BQ Contribution: Tests institutional ways to reduce material suffering; does not establish a spiritual mechanism or a complete model of flourishing.
Review Depth: Primary-paper methods and results inspected; supplements and raw data not reanalysed
Methods, Numbers & Source Trail
- Record Role
- Empirical evidence relevant to a narrower part of the BQ
- Sample & Scope
- 10,495 households, containing 21,063 adults, in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan and Peru.
- Methods & Outcomes
- Random assignment; consumption, assets, food security and well-being; follow-up roughly one year after programme completion.
Selected Quantitative Results
- Mental-health index at later follow-up: 0.071 standard deviations. Year 3, typically one year after programme end; interval not extracted.
Inspected Primary Sources
Discovery & Metadata: Crossref · OpenAlex
Crossref metadata ↗ · OpenAlex record ↗
