World Futures
March 1, 1995
Attila Grandpierre
2 citations
Among the most exciting experiences in our lives are the ones that arouse a magical rapture within us. This may happen when we become engrossed in a musical piece, when dancing becomes ecstatic, when we are passionately in love (or making love) or when we experience an intuitive perception or an altered state of consciousness, get caught by the spell of the infinity of the Universe or the...
International Journal of Psychophysiology
February 1, 1995
P Brauchli, C M Michel, H Zeier
The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that varying sensory input can affect mood, autonomic arousal, and electrocortical activity. Twenty right-handed males were exposed to three rhythmic audio-visual stimulation programs, with either a high intensity and variety of stimuli (program H), a low stimulation (program L) or with a transient from high to low (program HL). Multichannel...
Comprehensive Psychiatry
1995
F Fuentenebro, G E Berrios
The predelusional state (PDS) is defined as the set of psychopathologic events preceding the crystallization of delusions, and includes strange cognitions, moods, conations, and motor acts that may be fleeting and defy description. This review exclusively deals with the historic aspects of PDS. It is noted that during PDS the patient is expected to report experiences for which, on account of...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
1995
S. I. Shapiro, David M. Sherrill, Roger Walsh et al.
234 citations
This book is a clarion call for an expanded vision of human possibilities. In it, many of the best thinkers of our day ask us to renew the perennial search for self-knowledge and to discover the deeper meaning of our lives. For this, they offer the transpersonal perspective -- which extends beyond consciousness in its myriad forms, including altered states, yoga, dreams, and contemplation. This...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
1995
Stephan J. Holajter
Abstract In this paper an "unconscious" structure common to such altered psychological states as dreaming, schizophrenic disintegration, out-of body experiences, and creative acts is described. This description is accomplished by setting psychoanalytic, clinical, and empirical studies zuithin a phenomenological framework. Phenomenological self-reflection is first made a party to discussions...
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
1995
Ulla Karilampi, Susanna Carolusson
3 citations
There is reason to believe that multiple personality disorder (MPD) is as frequent in Europe as it is in North America and that the core symptoms are the same. Dissociation is a defence mobilized against the pain and helplessness caused by traumatic experiences. Trauma experienced by dissociative disorder patients is more severe and has started at earlier ages than among patients with other...
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
September 1, 1994
Louis H. Swartz
14 citations
The absorbed state-sexual arousal-orgasm pathway hypotheses assert that absorbed states of consciousness accompanying sexual arousal (sometimes called altered states of consciousness or sexual trance) play important roles in sexual response not previously recognized. Absorbed states are an obligatory pathway to high physiological sexual arousal and to orgasm in many, perhaps all, females. The...
Journal of Drug Issues
July 1, 1994
Richard Glen Boire
2 citations
The relationship between religious experience and alternative states of consciousness is as old as humanity itself. From time immemorial, visionary states have been entered through the ritual use of mind-changing substances. Despite the uncontrovertedfact that particular substances have been used for thousands of years to achieve religious experiences and insights, the federal drug laws fail to...
Ceskoslovenska psychiatrie
April 1, 1994
S Grof
In this lecture, the new insights and strategies that transpersonal psychology offers will be discussed in relation to the global crisis. Western academic psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy are ethnocentric; they tend to see their point of view as being superior to the perspectives of all the other cultural groups. They are also pragmacentric in that they take into considerations only...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
March 1, 1994
George Halasz
8 citations
The theme of the RANZCP 28th Conference questioned the science of clinical practice. This question is explored in the light of prevailing paradigms of 20th century psychiatry and recent claims by scientism, especially biologism, that assumes an organic causation for all abnormal behaviour. It is argued that a paradigm of objective science is necessary to understanding many aspects of mental...