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A Conceptual Model of Bidirectional Human Development from Devolution to Flourishing — Balram Aatmanayana Rishi. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1916474
Peer-Reviewed Publication • Frontiers in Psychology • Hypothesis and Theory • 4 September 2026
The Vilayam News Editorial Series documents the public introduction of the Vilayam Research Programme, developed by Guyanese researcher Dr. Balram Persaud-Budhu (Balram Ātmanayana Rishi) through more than twenty-five years of lived experience, observation, documentation, humanitarian practice, applied research, and interdisciplinary study. These editorials introduce the foundational questions of the programme and invite international scholarly dialogue.
Introduces a foundational question of the Vilayam Research Programme: whether human beings, capable of ascending in consciousness, may also descend — with implications for psychology, human development, and humanitarian science.
Advances a hypothesis for interdisciplinary examination: that biological vitality and interior consciousness can dissociate, producing progressive internal unconsciousness in otherwise living human beings.
Proposes a new domain of scholarly inquiry — the interior journey preceding manifestation — as a formal area within the Vilayam Research Programme.
A Guyana-developed conceptual model emerging from decades of humanitarian observation and consciousness inquiry has been accepted by Frontiers in Psychology, adding another dimension to Guyana’s established contribution to international scholarship.
The Vilayam institutional ecosystem inaugurates its official global website, bringing the work of six institutions into a single home for research, education, and service.
Read more →The Vilayam Institute publishes its research agenda in consciousness studies, human development, and humanitarian science.
Read more →The Vilayam Academy is preparing certificate pathways in consciousness and human-development literacy.
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