Der Nervenarzt
July 2008
O Seidl
Therese Neumann, from Konnersreuth in Bavaria, developed stigmata at the age of 29 and allegedly lived without any food for 36 years. After a fire accident in 1918, she suffered from paralysis, deafness, and blindness. Later she developed stigmata on her extremities and left side of the thorax, bleeding lesions in the skin, bleeding in the eye region, and altered states of consciousness in the...
Neurophysiologie Clinique
June 1, 2008
C Lopez, P Halje, Olaf Blanke
Body ownership and embodiment are two fundamental mechanisms of self-consciousness. The present article reviews neurological data about paroxysmal illusions during which body ownership and embodiment are affected differentially: autoscopic phenomena (out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, autoscopic hallucination, feeling-of-a-presence) and the room tilt illusion. We suggest that autoscopic...
Anthropology of Consciousness
May 1, 2008
Adam J. Rock, Jessica Wilson, Luke Johnston et al.
18 citations
ABSTRACT The subjective effects and therapeutic potential of the shamanic practice of journeying is well known. However, previous research has neglected to provide a comprehensive assessment of the subjective effects of shamanic‐like journeying techniques on non‐shamans. Shamanic‐like techniques are those that demonstrate some similarity to shamanic practices and yet deviate from what may...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 2008
Petr Bob
According to recent evidence, neurophysiological processes coupled to pain are closely related to the mechanisms of consciousness. This evidence is in accordance with findings that changes in states of consciousness during hypnosis or traumatic dissociation strongly affect conscious perception and experience of pain, and markedly influence brain functions. Past research indicates that painful...
Spiritus
March 1, 2008
Douglas Burton‐Christie
Lost—Found Douglas Burton-Christie St. Augustine famously described the soul's ultimate meeting with God as a homecoming, a recognition of something known and familiar that has been lost. His uncanny sense of knowing what he was looking for even in the midst of the most intense experience of dislocation is part of what gives the Confessions such evocative power. It captures the strange but...
Neuroscience Letters
February 13, 2008
Jiřı́ Wackermann, Marc Wittmann, Felix Hasler et al.
95 citations
Action of a hallucinogenic substance, psilocybin, on internal time representation was investigated in two double-blind, placebo-controlled studies: Experiment 1 with 12 subjects and graded doses, and Experiment 2 with 9 subjects and a very low dose. The task consisted in repeated reproductions of time intervals in the range from 1.5 to 5s. The effects were assessed by parameter kappa of the...
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
February 1, 2008
Tomohisa Asai, Yoshihiko Tanno
Schizotypy can be seen as an indicator of a predisposition to schizophrenia. It is possible that schizotypal people have an abnormal self-consciousness, especially with regard to the sense of self-agency. Students were rated using the Schizotypy Traits Questionnaire (STA). They were asked to press a button, which generated a tone after some delay. They were then required to judge whether they...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
January 1, 2008
Harry Sumnall, Kerry Woolfall, Sara Edwards et al.
Self-reported use of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) among clubbers has increased over the last decade, and is often reported in the scientific literature in association with negative events such as amnesia, overdose, and use in drug facilitated sexual assault. However, there has been relatively little work investigating the phenomenology of GHB intoxication, and the reasons underlying use. In this...
The journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
2008
David V Forrest
In response to a new psychological study of persons who believe they have been abducted by space aliens that found that sleep paralysis, a history of being hypnotized, and preoccupation with the paranormal and extraterrestrial were predisposing experiences, I noted that many of the frequently reported particulars of the abduction experience bear more than a passing resemblance to...
Cortex
2008
Jirí Wackermann, Peter Pütz, Carsten Allefeld
Ganzfeld, i.e., exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field, elicits in most observers pseudo-hallucinatory percepts, and may even induce global functional state changes ('altered states of consciousness'). The present paper gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenology of subjective experience in the ganzfeld and its electrophysiological correlates. Laboratory techniques for...