Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 21, 2023
Julien Tempone-Wiltshire, Tra-Ill Dowie
10 citations
Abstract In the monograph Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience, Hauskeller raises the important subject of individualization and alienation in psychedelic psychotherapy. Under the prevailing conditions of neoliberalism, Hauskeller contends that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy appropriates Indigenous knowledges in an oppressive fashion, may be instrumentalised to...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
September 19, 2023
Robert A. King
3 citations
The typical near-death experience (NDE) is generally understood as an altered state of consciousness in which the experient has the impression of existing as an extrapersonal self out of and/or away from their physical body during real or presumed life-threatening and/or near-death circumstances. This presumed extrapersonal self can sometimes have a perception of being located within the...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 13, 2023
El‐sayed El‐aswad
2 citations
This paper is positioned within broader scholarly debates about ritual‐religious and psychological elements underlying the phenomenon of altered states of mind in Egyptian Muslim contexts. This research examines the intricate relationships between ritual, consciousness, and the unseen/unknowable world reflected in the imagination and practices of urban and rural communities belonging...
September 8, 2023
Antonio Manzalini
1 citation
Questo articolo descrive per la prima volta, per quanto a conoscenza dell'autore, una nuova disciplina scientifica che studia i legami tra la Coscienza e l’Epigenetica Quantistica, incrociando i temi dell’Epigenetica, della Fisica Quantistica e della Psicologia. Le principali assunzioni di questa disciplina sono: 1) la memoria di informazione quantistica ancestrale – quindi non osservabile -...
Current Psychology
September 8, 2023
Camile Bahi, Mona Irrmischer, Katrien Franken et al.
27 citations
Abstract Breathwork as a means of inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness is gaining traction as a potential therapeutic modality. We examined the effects of breathwork (in the form of connected breathing) on electroencephalography (EEG) and mood in 20 healthy participants (aged between 23 and 39 years (female = 11, M age = 29). In addition, to compare with other means of inducing...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 7, 2023
Marianna Graziosi, Manvir Singh, Sandeep M. Nayak et al.
10 citations
ABSTRACT Reports of psychedelic experiences may contain similarities and differences across cultural contexts, but most current characterizations and quantifications of psychedelic experiences come from Western medical and naturalistic settings. In this article, we begin with a brief history of the diversity of psychedelic use in non-Western settings. We then compare and contrast accounts of...
September 4, 2023
Jonathan Omisore
preprint
Altered states of consciousness have long been a topic scientific investigation. They include states such as dreaming and hypnosis. Other altered states of consciousness, particularly those induced by psychedelics, include alterations in perception. These altered states of consciousness have seen an increase in academic research. Deep Dream is a popular computer vision algorithm that replicates...
Neuron
September 1, 2023
Rina Zelmann, Angelique C. Paulk, Fangyun Tian et al.
What happens in the human brain when we are unconscious? Despite substantial work, we are still unsure which brain regions are involved and how they are impacted when consciousness is disrupted. Using intracranial recordings and direct electrical stimulation, we mapped global, network, and regional involvement during wake vs. arousable unconsciousness (sleep) vs. non-arousable unconsciousness...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 1, 2023
Gary Moody
AbstractSpiritualist mediums are sought out from a variety of cultures for their advanced spirit communication healing techniques. Otherworldly spirits use mediums to create spirit art, which guides an individual to discover their authentic self and work through self‐limiting beliefs. To serve as a bridge for the spirit world, the medium develops an ability to enter an altered state of...
August 31, 2023
Eviatar Shulman
1 citation
This chapter offers a new scientific engagement with the idea of religious truth, suggesting that it is the prerogative of the scholar of religion to take emic ideas seriously and to be open to the possibility that religions access a true level of reality. So long as we deny any truth to religion, we are not scientific and only confirm our own assumptions. The approach suggested here emerges...