Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States: A Historical andġ2. ‘The prophetic discernment of what is possible’: Aldous Huxley’s The Doors ofġ1. Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Realityġ0. Prism of Lyra: UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awarenessĩ. The Herald of the Christ: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical ImaginationĨ. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Ageħ. Specific diagnoses must be treated appropriately, but there are key general principles to management of impaired consciousness and coma that apply in all situations. Divining the Distant Past: Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal, andĦ. Altered states of consciousness in pediatric patients are urgent situations, and coma is a medical emergency requiring rapid and organized intervention. Impaired consciousness refers to similar. Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930sĥ. Coma is unresponsiveness from which the patient cannot be aroused and in which the patients eyes remain closed. Everyday Magic: Surrealism and ParapsychologyĤ. It tends to be characterized by altered levels of self. Reports of the experience of ASCs are highly subjective, but the phenomenon is susceptible to some degree of empirical study. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and ‘psi-powers’ inģ. altered state of consciousness (ASC) a state of psychological functioning that is significantly different from that experienced in ordinary states of consciousness. Writing in the Space Between: Life After Death in the Fiction of Richard MathesonĢ. In this study, a new psychoanalytic theory of altered states of consciousness is. The collection represents a vital contribution to the growing body of work on both ASCs and the wider academic engagement with millennialism, entheogens, occulture and the paranormal.ġ. The contributors are drawn from the fields of English and American literature, religious studies, Western esotericism, film studies, sociology and history of art, and bring to bear on ASCs their own disciplinary and conceptual perspectives, as well as a broader interdisciplinary knowledge of the subject. The international contributors critically examine a variety of ASCs, including precognition, near-death experiences, telepathy, New Age ‘channelling’, contact with aliens and UFOs, the use of alcohol and entheogens, analysing both the impact of ASCs on the culture and how cultural and technological changes influenced ASCs. This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them. Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century analyses these different approaches and methodologies, and includes exciting new research into neglected areas. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, were cultivated and studied, while older ASCs were given new classifications: out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, psychokinesis, extrasensory perception. The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness.
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