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The antipodes Of the mind November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon
Abstract Our charting of the phenomenology of the Ayahuasca experience is now complete. First- and second-order, dynamical, and contextual questions have been examined. I turn now to the theoretical cognitive-psychological level Taking a broad, unified perspective, I shall attempt to make sense of the special state of consciousness that Ayahuasca induces. What happens to the mind under the...
The antipodes Of the mind November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon
Abstract Having specified the various contextual factors and variables that may contribute to the generation of visions, let me attempt a definition of the major cognitive parameters that seem to be affected by Ayahuasca. In defining these parameters} in effect, I am attempting an answer to the major psychological question-what does Ayahuasca do to the human cognitive system? Theoretically,...
The antipodes Of the mind November 7, 2002 Benny Shanon
Abstract In this chapter I continue with the ‘How?’ question and consider a number of patterns which, to my mind, are important determinants of the way Ayahuasca visualizations develop. Following my general (that is, not specific to my study of Ayahuasca) radical phenomenological approach to cognition, unlike most investigations in contemporary cognitive science my analysis does not deal with...
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...
Biological Psychology November 2002 Fred Travis, Joe Tecce, Alarik Arenander et al.
Long-term meditating subjects report that transcendental experiences (TE), which first occurred during their Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice, now subjectively co-exist with waking and sleeping states. To investigate neurophysiological correlates of this integrated state, we recorded EEG in these subjects and in two comparison groups during simple and choice contingent negative variation...
October 25, 2002
The philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems—What is perception? What is the nature of perceptual consciousness? How can one fit an account of perceptual experience into a broader account of the nature of the mind and the world?—are at the heart of metaphysics. Rather than try to cover all of the many strands in the philosophy of perception, this...
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...
arXiv Preprint Archive October 13, 2002 Danko Dimchev Georgiev preprint
Epiphenomenalism is shown to be absurd because the development of consciousness must be explainable through natural selection. A detailed neuromolecular basis of the neuromediator release is given and it is stressed on the possible key point where the quantum mind could act, namely presynaptic scaffold protein dynamics and detachment of the calcium sensor v-SNARE synaptotagmin-1. The...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis October 2002 Ernest L Rossi
This conceptual review explores some speculative associations between the neuroscience of expectancy and surprise during stress and therapeutic hypnosis. Current neuroscience is exploring how novel interactions between the organism and the environment initiate cascades of gene expression, protein synthesis, neurogenesis, and healing that operate via Darwinian principles of natural variation and...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality September 1, 2002 Thomas Natsoulas
This article, published in two parts, is propaedeutic to a consideration next of Weiskrantz's conception of consciousness from a perspective bequeathed to us by James more than a century ago. Weiskrantz has argued in support of a general account of awareness that resembles the “Intellectualist” notion of mind against which James strongly objected. Weiskrantz mainly addressed the question of...