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Journal of Near-Death Studies 2003 James Fadiman, J. Gruber
Review of the book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule. A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences" written by Rick Strassman, a professor at a school of medicine.
Kybernetes December 1, 2002 Stanley Krippner, Allan Combs 7 citations
This systems model of dreaming consciousness examines the self‐organizing properties of the sleeping brain, offering a step towards reconciling brain‐based and content‐based attempts to understand the nature of dreaming. The brain can be understood as a complex self‐organizing system that, in dreaming, responds to subtle influences such as residual feelings and memories. The...
The antipodes Of the mind November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon
Abstract There must be a fourth state beyond the waking, dreaming and dreamless states in which the absolute oneness of Brahman-Atman is what should be known. Ayahuasca is an agent that induces an altered state of consciousness; as such, it does precisely that-it modifies people’s state of consciousness. In this chapter (and in Chs. 14 and 16) I examine these modifications and the effects...
November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon 225 citations
Abstract This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies November 3, 2002 John J. Pilch 17 citations
Luke reports more than twenty altered states of consciousness experiences in Acts of the Apostles. These are common and normal human experiences in approximately ninety percent of contemporary cultures. In the ancient Circum-Mediterranean world, it seems to have been common and normal in about eighty percent of those cultures. Insights from psychological anthropology, cultural anthropology and...
Brain October 21, 2002 Andrew J. Larner 9 citations
NEUROCHEMISTRY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN MIND Edited by E. Perry, H. Ashton and A. Young 2002. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company Price €65. ISBN 1588111245 Of what relevance is the study of the neural correlates of consciousness to the practice of clinical neurology? Until recently, one answer to this question might reasonably have been ‘not much’, consciousness being...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 2002 J N Booth, J C Charette, Michael A. Persinger
To identify means to enhance the laboratory production of alleged paranormal phenomena, 15 pairs of men and women involved emotionally were tested by male and female experimenters who were not familiar with the hypothesis that ambient (geomagnetic) activity could modulate this production. While the female of the pair was exposed to six different patterns of complex magnetic fields designed to...
Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 2002
Circumcerebral application of weak complex magnetic fields with derivatives and changes in electroencephalographic power spectra within the theta range: implications for states of consciousness.
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy June 1, 2002 Kelly M. Smith, Lisa L. Larive, Frank Romanelli 226 citations
The abuse of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), flunitrazepam, ketamine hydrochloride, and gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is discussed. Club drugs are chemical substances used recreationally in social settings. Use is increasingly frequent among young people, especially during all-night dance parties. All four agents have been classified as controlled substances. MDMA ("ecstasy") is available...
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions April 18, 2002 Moshe Sluhovsky
Abstract Possession by either divine or demonic spirits is a familiar form of self-transformation. Together with devotional ecstasy, shamanism, trance, and voodoo and Zar ceremonies, possession is included by ethnopsychologists and anthropologists in the large variety of altered states of consciousness, numerous mental states that are “indigenously understood in terms of the influence of an...