| Titel: | Anomalous Phenomena, Psi, and Altered Consciousness |
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| Autor: | Luke, David |
| Mediengruppe: | chapter |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 2011 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 355-374 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | (from the chapter) This chapter considers a number of different altered states of consciousness (ASC) and their relationship to spontaneous or actively induced anomalous events, such as with the attempted production of psi under laboratory conditions. Often, the specific states themselves have not been clearly defined either phenomenonologically or physiologically, but rather only the induction procedure is known, such as with those states possibly arising following meditation, the ingestion of psychoactive substances, or hypnosis, if they do produce ASC [see Cardefia, Volume 1]. In some cases, however, the anomalous experience is the state because the experience is defined by the phenomenological characteristics of the experience, such as with sleep paralysis or near-death experiences, the latter of which, arguably, may occur even in the absence of life-threatening circumstances (Greyson, 2000). Following the trend in the greater part of the extant experimental literature, and because of the limitations of space, the present chapter focuses on the induction procedures that have been attempted, (e.g., hypnosis) rather than spontaneous states (e.g., near-death experiences). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (chapter) |