Frontiers in Pharmacology
July 25, 2022
Kurt Stocker, Matthias Hartmann, Steffen Reissmann et al.
Background: Cognition that is not dominated by thinking in terms of opposites (opposite diminishing) or by making judgments (non-judging) can be found both in Buddhist/mindfulness contexts and in mental states that are fostered by dissociative psychedelics (N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists) such as ketamine. Especially for the Buddhist/mindfulness case, both opposite diminishing and non-judging...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 15, 2022
Gabriele Penazzi, Nicola De Pisapia
16 citations
Hypnosis and meditation share phenomenological and neurophysiological features, and their comparison is a topic of growing interest in the scientific literature. In this article, we review a classification of these two kinds of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and discuss the studies that directly compare them. Some findings seem to suggest that hypnosis and meditation are distinct...
Journal of Consciousness Studies
July 14, 2022
Leonard Dung
1 citation
Sensorimotor enactivism is the view that the content and the sensory modality of perceptual experience are determined by implicit knowledge of lawful regularities between bodily movements and patterns of sensory stimulation. A proponent of the explanatory argument for sensorimotor enactivism holds that this view is able to provide an intelligible explanation for why certain material realizers...
Psychological Review
July 5, 2022
Warren Mansell
19 citations
An integrative account of consciousness should have a number of properties. It should build upon a framework of nonconscious behavior in order to explain how and why consciousness contributes to, and addresses the limitations of, nonconscious processes. It should also encompass the primary (phenomenal), secondary (access), and tertiary (self-awareness) aspects of consciousness. A number of...
DergiPark (Istanbul University)
July 4, 2022
Deniz Tansel İlic
We experience the world from the solid stand point of logical thinking. However playing is entering theworld of magical thinking and gathering the pure look of the child’s eye. Plays let us go into a moreunbounded layer where we can experience the ‘reality’ differently. In this altered state of consciousness,s/he can experience derealization and depersonalization. This dissociation can be...
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference
July 1, 2022
Jonathan Weinel
Explosions in the Mind: Composing Psychedelic Sound and Visualisations (Weinel, 2021) is a new book exploring more than a decade of the author’s practice-led research composing sound and visualisations based on altered states of consciousness such as hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia (Figure 1). The book is part of the Palgrave Studies in Sound series, edited by Prof. Mark...
Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy
July 2022
Thomas J Moore, Abdallah Alami, G Caleb Alexander et al.
Ketamine, an anesthetic available since 1970, and esketamine, its newer S-enantiomer, provide a novel approach for the treatment of depression and other psychiatric disorders. At subanesthetic doses, the two drugs, along with their older congener, phencyclidine (PCP), induce a transient, altered mental state by blocking the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor for glutamate, the primary...
June 30, 2022
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves as followers of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary master of ancient wisdom. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as...
June 30, 2022
Tobi Zausner
In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
June 27, 2022
Hubert Gerwe, Feng He, Eline Pottie et al.
21 citations
Classical psychedelics are a group of hallucinogens which trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness through activation of the 5-HT2A receptor (5-HT2A R) in the brain. However, the exact mechanism of how 5-HT2A R agonism alters perception remains elusive. When studying receptor signaling, tools which work at the same spatiotemporal resolution as the receptor are exceptionally useful. To...