| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-277) and index. |
| Contents |
Wakefulness -- Sleep -- Dreams -- Hypnosis -- Trance -- Psychedelics -- Transcendence -- Death. |
| Summary |
This book presents an analytic investigation into the nature of cognitive reality. The author explores various manifestations of consciousness with rational and empirical rigor; he begins with more ordinary states such as thinking, sleeping, and dreaming and then continues on with more extraordinary states such as hypnosis, trance, psychedelic experiences, transcendence, and experiences associated with death. This comprehensive overview of altered states examines consciousness from the physiological, cognitive, and experiential points of view. Readers will gain from this text an enriched understanding of consciousness, reality, and the scientific endeavor. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Altered states of consciousness.
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Unconscious, Psychology
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Consciousness.
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| Other Form: |
Barušs, Imants, 1952- Alterations of consciousness (print) (DLC) 2002038313 |
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