Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A
2008
Michael Witthöft, Fred Rist, Josef Bailer
Absorption as a personality trait refers to the predisposition to get deeply immersed in sensory (e.g., smells, sounds, pictures) or mystical experiences, that is, to experience altered states of consciousness. Absorption is markedly related to constructs openness to experiences, hypnotic suggestibility, imagination, and dissociation. Although absorption was hypothesized to be a risk factor for...
Cortex
2008
Jessica I Fleck, Deborah L Green, Jennifer L Stevenson et al.
Transliminality reflects individual differences in the threshold at which unconscious processes or external stimuli enter into consciousness. Individuals high in transliminality possess characteristics such as magical ideation, belief in the paranormal, and creative personality traits, and also report the occurrence of manic/mystic experiences. The goal of the present research was to determine...
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
2008
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
85 citations
Research into the so-called "philosophical" Hermetica has long been dominated by the foundational scholarship of Andre-Jean Festugiere, who strongly emphasized their Greek and philosophical elements. Since the late 1970s, this perspective has given way to a new and more complex one, due to the work of another French scholar, Jean-Pierre Mahe, who could profit from the discovery of new textual...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 19, 2007
Anette Kjellgren, Sven A Bood, Kajsa Axelsson et al.
Background: Increasing rates of psychosocial disturbances give rise to increased risks and vulnerability for a wide variety of stress-related chronic pain and other illnesses. Relaxation exercises aim at reducing stress and thereby help prevent these unwanted outcomes. One of the widely used relaxation practices is yoga and yogic breathing exercises. One specific form of these exercises is...
Nature Precedings
December 3, 2007
Juan Pablo Ogalde, Bernardo Arriaza, Elia C. Soto
4 citations
Abstract Hallucinogenic plants are often regarded as the main source of psychoactive drugs in antiquity to reach deep altered states of consciousness^1,2^. Many researchers believe this was particularly true during the Tiwanaku empire expansion, circa (500-1000 A.D.), along the Atacama Desert of Chile. Highly decorated snuffing tablets and tubes are often found as grave goods during this...
Contemporary Justice Review
December 1, 2007
Wendy Chapkis
16 citations
Federal drug policy defines marijuana as a prohibited Schedule 1 substance—a dangerous drug carrying a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. This classification is largely due to the drug's well‐known psychoactive effects (‘the high’). Because of this, even medical marijuana advocates have tended to downplay the consciousness‐altering properties of cannabis when arguing for the...
Neuropsychological Trends
November 1, 2007
Lazar Skaric, Milorad Tomasevic, Dejan Rakovic et al.
The study of the perception of music is a paramount example of multidisciplinary research. In spite of a lot of theoretical and experimental efforts to understand musical processing, attempts to localize musical abilities in particular brain regions were largely unsuccessful, save for the difference between musicians and non musicians, especially in hemispheric specialization and in EEG...
July 4, 2007
A. Powell
Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the...
Revue des maladies respiratoires
May 1, 2007
L Garbaz, D Mispelaere, M Boutemy et al.
A 21 year old man was admitted to hospital as an emergency complaining of left sided chest pain. Chest radiograph revealed a complete non compressive left-sided pneumothorax which resolved following thoracic drainage. A more detailed history revealed repeated and regular use of nitrous oxide by inhalation, for its consciousness-altering effect during rave parties. The principal side effects...
Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives
March 1, 2007
Gregg Lahood
33 citations
Some contemporary women can experience non-ordinary states of consciousness when childbearing. The purpose of this paper is to bring a 'transpersonal' frame to these non-ordinary states of consciousness (hereafter: NOSC). Transpersonal psychology is an interdisciplinary movement in Western science that studies 'religious', 'peak' or 'healing' experiences in different cultures and social...