| Description |
ix, 589 pages ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
A Doubleday anchor book
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-570) and index. |
| Contents |
Some general views on altered states of consciousness. Altered states of consciousness / Arnold M. Ludwig -- Deautomatization and the mystic experience / Arthur J. Deikman -- A special inquiry with Aldous Huxley into the nature and character of various states of consciousness / Milton H. Erickson. Between waking and sleeping : the hypnagogic state. Ego functions and dreaming during sleep onset / Gerald Vogel, David Foulkes, and Harry Trosman -- Some preliminary observations with an experimental procedure for the study of hypnagogic and related phenomena / M. Bertini, Helen B. Lewis, and Herman A. Witkin. Dream consciousness. Theories of dream formation and recent studies of sleep consciousness / David Foulkes -- Toward the experimental control of dreaming : a review of the literature / Charles T. Tart -- A study of dreams / Frederik van Eeden -- Dream theory in Malaya / Kilton Stewart -- The "high" dream : a new state of consciousness / Charles T. Tart. Meditation. On meditation / Edward W. Maupin -- Individual differences in response to a Zen meditation exercise / Edward W.E. Maupin -- Experimental meditation / Arthur J. Deikman -- Meditative techniques in psychotherapy / Wolfgang Kretschmer. 0 Hypnosis. Hypnosis and the concept of the generalized reality-orientation / Ronald E. Shor -- Three dimensions of hypnotic depth / Ronald E. Shor -- Hypnosis, depth perception, and the psychedelic experience / Bernard S. Aaronson -- The psychedelic state, the hypnotic trance, and the creative act / Stanley Krippner -- Psychedelic experiences associated with a novel hypnotic procedure, mutual hypnosis / Charles T. Tart -- Autogenic training : method, research, and application in medicine / Wolfgang Luthe. Minor psychedelic drugs. Marijuana (Cannabis) fact sheet / Bruin Humanist Forum -- The effects of marijuana on consciousness / anonymous -- Psychedelic properties of Genista canariensis / James Fadiman -- Subjective effects of nitrous oxide / William James -- Inhalation psychosis and related states / Frederick B. Glaser. Major psychedelic drugs. Current status and future trends in psychedelic (LSD) research / Robert E. Mogar -- Implications of LSD and experimental mysticism / Walter N. Pahnke and William A. Richard -- Attitude and behavior change through psychedelic drug use / Joseph Downing -- Ipomoea purpurea : a naturally occurring psychedelic / Charles Savage, Willis W. Harman, and James Fadiman -- Psychedelic agents in creative problem solving / Willis Harman, Robert McKim, Robert Mogar, James Fadiman, and Myron J. Stolaroff -- "Psychedelic" experiences in acute psychoses / Malcolm B. Bowers Jr. and Daniel Freedman -- Guide to the literature on psychedelic drugs / Charles T. Tart. The psychophysiology of some altered states of consciousness. An electroencephalographic study on the Zen meditation (zazen) / Akira Kasamatsu and Tomio Hirai -- Some aspects of electroencephalographic studies in yogis / B.K. Anand, G.S. Chhina, and Baldev Singh -- Operant control of the EEG alpha rhythm and some of Its reported effects on consciousness / Joe Kamiya. |
| Summary |
On consciousness, hypnosis, dream consciousness, meditation and psychedelic drugs. |
| Subject |
Altered states of consciousness.
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Altered states of consciousness. (OCoLC)fst00806116
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Consciousness. (DNLM)D003243 |
| Added Author |
Tart, Charles T., 1937- compiler.
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| ISBN |
0385067283 |
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9780385067287 |
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