From Neurophysiological Correlates to Ontological Verdicts: An Epistemological Critique of Nonordinary Experiences of Consciousness
Bruno Abbondanza preprint
Nonordinary experiences of consciousness, including out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, mystical states, psychedelic experiences, and profound alterations of self-experience, are often interpreted through neuropsychological and psychiatric categories such as hallucination, dissociation, perceptual alteration, or brain anomaly. Such categories are clinically necessary when the...