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	Altered state of consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An altered state of consciousness is any state which is significantly different from a normative waking beta wave state.
		An altered state of consciousness can come about accidentally through fever, sleep deprivation, starvation, oxygen deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep diving), or a traumatic accident.
		Naturally occurring altered states of consciousness include dreams, euphoria, ecstasy, psychosis as well as controversial premonitions, out of body experiences, channeling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altered_state_of_consciousness (243 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness
		Altered states of consciousness generally include alterations in both the content and functioning of the consciousness, usually experienced by an individual and observed by others watching him.
		Frequently altered states of consciousness either are induced personally or by others which may or may not produce lasting effects.
		This is a state can vary from a light sleep to a coma which enables the shaman to see and do things in a nonordinary reality which he cannot do in the ordinary reality of a waking state.
	www.meta-religion.com /Spiritualism/Shamanism/altered_states_of_consciousness.htm (978 words)

	altered states of consciousness
		An altered state of consciousness is a state of consciousness that differs significantly from baseline or normal consciousness often identified with a brain state that differs significantly from the brain state at baseline or normal consciousness.
		The baseline brain state might be best defined by the presence of two important subjective characteristics: the psychological sense of a self at the center of one’s perception and a sense that this self is identified with one’s body.
		States of consciousness where one loses the sense of identity with one’s body or with one’s perceptions are definitely ASCs.
	skepdic.com /altstates.html (854 words)

	Inducing Altered States of Consciousness with binaural beat audio for altered states of consciousness mind altering ...
		States of consciousness form as a synthesis of discrete, yet cortically distributed, levels of arousal combined with specific contents.
		Chief among the sensory-information techniques for inducing beneficial altered states is the procedure of placing an individual into an environment of greatly reduced stimulation for brief periods (less than 2 hours).
		Brainwaves and related states of consciousness are said to be regulated by the brain’s reticular formation stimulating the thalamus and cortex.
	brain.web-us.com /inducing.htm (1923 words)

	Charisma, Crowd Psychology and Altered States of Consciousness
		To recapitulate, we have then in Weber two forms of altered or dissociated states of consciousness that, from his point of view, are not amenable to sociological analysis since they stand outside rational goal-orientation, yet are nonetheless of crucial importance in history and culture.
		But it is also clear that the denial of collective deindividuating altered states of consciousness corresponds with our present social formation, which mirrors and ratifies the rationalization processes of the society at large and finds its most powerful philosophical expression in the romantic existentialist apotheosis of the self 28.
		The stated end is to permit the convert to escape from obligations of should and ought (referred to as 'garbage') in order to find the authentic, eternal and vital selves that lie beneath social and familial conditioning.
	www.bu.edu /anthrop/faculty/lindholm/ASCCharisma.html (6818 words)

	Altered states - National - smh.com.au
		It is telling state governments to abolish taxes and stamp duty, the first serious attack on state tax policies since John Curtin used World War II to stop state income taxes in 1942.
		Of course, getting rid of state governments is rabidly opposed by Macquarie Street politicians and their cohorts around the capitals who will not vote for their own demise.
		Ian Johnston, of Hornsby, is intent on standing candidates in the 2007 NSW election pushing for new states to be established in rural areas around Australia that feel neglected by city politicians and policies.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/altered-states/2005/09/30/1127804662742.html (1517 words)

	Sex, Drugs and Altered States of Consciousness by Charles T. Tart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For some years I have been investigating altered states of consciousness, and a major result of this has been to raise some questions about our ordinary or so-called "normal" state of consciousness (SoC) that are not usually asked.
		Our ordinary state of consciousness is not something "natural" or given, as we tend to assume, but a highly complex construction, a specialized tool for coping with our environment and the people in it, a reflection of the consensus reality of the society we live in.
		The terms "state of consciousness" and "altered state of consciousness" have come to be used so loosely that they often mean very little, other than what's on a person's mind at the moment.
	www.paradigm-sys.com /cttart/sci-docs/ctt78-sdaas.html (6075 words)

	Altered States
		Mavromatis (1987) notes that the word 'hypnagogic' (from the Greek hypnos = sleep, and agnogeus = conductor, leader) was first used by the Frenchman Maury (1848) to specifically denote the deeply relaxed state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep during which flashes of inspiration and creative insight often appear.
		On the average, only 5 to 10 minutes is spent in hypnagogia as one passes from a relaxed alpha brainwave state on into the first stages of sleep.
		During this fleeting psycho-physical state, people typically report randomly occurring visual and auditory experiences which, in comparison to the dreams characteristic of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, are more disconnected and short-lived.
	www.mindmachine.com /html/body_altered_states.html (417 words)

	21st-Methodology Of EEG Analysis During Altered States Of Consciousness
		Altered states of consciousness exhibit subtle EEG changes that must be observed with carefully chosen methodology and signal processing procedures.
		Proposed methodology and software environment are used for analysis of brain activities during altered state of consciousness related to the healing process.
		Altered states of consciousness as extreme cases are indispensable in studying nature of consciousness.
	www.vxm.com /21R.94.html (3994 words)

	Altered States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altered States is the name of both a novel (ISBN 0060107278) and a film adaptation of that novel, both written by Paddy Chayefsky.
		It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, and his final film.
		Altered States is also the title of the American edition of Ken Russell's autobiography (ISBN 0553078313).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altered_States (572 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness - 2002 Conference - Home
		The International Conference on Altered States of Consciousness evolved from this foundation.
		This new conference explored in a thoughtful manner the myriad of experiences that we call altered states of consciousness.
		From shamanism to scientific investigation, the desire to understand altered states is ever present.
	bizspirit.com /alteredstates (306 words)

	Altered States
		A common factor in all of these seems to be an altered state of consciousness.
		This altered state may allow us to concentrate on a task more fully, use physical or mental powers more completely, or even achieve a state of unnatural abilities.
		Most researchers agree that they disagree on what hypnosis exactly is. Some believe that there is no such thing as a hypnotic state, others feel that we all may live our entire lives in an altered state of some kind or another.
	earthkeeper.freeservers.com /altered_genuit.htm (1401 words)

	Altered States: the60s
		Then there are the ‘altered states’ produced by physical illness such as brain tumours and various neurological disorders which produce considerable changes in the personality.
		Once we begin to look at altered states from the medical perspective it is hard to get out of it because the only terms of discussion allowable are the medical ones.
		So rather than start out from ponderous efforts to define exactly what we mean by ‘altered states of consciousness’, let us plunge into a highly colourful, social and psychological event from our recent past: the amazing happenings around the beginnings of the counterculture in the 60s.
	www.meta-religion.com /Psychiatry/Analytical_psychology/altered_states.htm (2723 words)

	Altered States
		These altered states, whether reached through hallucinogens, or fasting, or by doing the sun dance, have always been invoked by indigenous people so that "the people may live," as the Indians put it.
		Shamanism is the use of altered states of consciousness, at will, for the purpose of healing or for gaining power or knowledge.
		He knew how to use altered states to heal people, and it was obvious to me that he was doing so much better what I was supposed to be trained to do.
	www.woodfish.org /altered.html (3919 words)

	The Planetary Collegium
		Altered states of consciousness research (ASCR) is part of the overall inquiry into art, technology and consciousness that characterises much of the research activity of the Planetary Collegium.
		This conference, Altered States, similarly draws upon a wide range of insights and expertise of artists, architects, performers, scientists, and scholars based in many countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the USA, and Wales.
		At the same time, science, in the flux of its internal contradictions, its macro and micro points of view, its counter intuitive and rationalist claims, also provides a field of knowing which is at once authoritative and tentative, and never final or absolute.
	www.planetary-collegium.net /conferences/detail/200507 (531 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These altered states are thought to give a person a sense of freedom and feelings of ecstatic joy, love and peace, over the fact that one has finally discovered his oneness with the Universe and with every other living thing as a part of God.
		This of course, is due to the fact that the altered state of consciousness is merely the induction of a trance-like state of mind, which quickly wears off, and it gives no long-lasting sense of peace and joy that only comes from repentance towards God and the doing of His will.
		During these states of altered consciousness, one communes with the souls of past, present and future beings, and thus, all sense of 'now', all sense of time, is temporarily lost.
	www.religiouscounterfeits.org /alt_state.htm (1648 words)

	Altered states - National - www.smh.com.au
		A new push to create more states in Australia is coming from country people who think they are being ignored by the big cities that eat up all their taxes.
		There have been royal commissions into new states and in Queensland the Parliament has voted three times for the state to be subdivided, but it was only in 1998 that 51.3 per cent of Northern Territorians voted against statehood.
		Johnston grew up in Quirindi, near Tamworth, and says he was converted to the new states cause as a five-year-old in 1953 when 21 councils in the north of the state defied the state government and held an unofficial referendum on the issue of a new state.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/01/24/1106415528397.html (1974 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness
		ltered states of consciousness generally include alterations in both the content and functioning of the consciousness, usually experienced by an individual and observed by others watching him.
		In an altered state of consciousness the high priestess assumes the spirit of the
		the altered state of consciousness may be total or partial.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/altered_states_of_consciousness.html (928 words)

	Brain, Mind, and Altered States of Consciousness
		Scientists have found that when meditators reach a state of deep awareness and internal mental serenity the two hemispheres of their brain--which ordinarily generate brain waves of different frequencies and amplitudes--become synchronized, both hemispheres generating the same brain waves.
		The state of ordinary consciousness, wherein we assume the physical world is the only reality and have no interest in deeper aspects of reality, is the norm in the United States and the world.
		The essence of "conversion" is the induction of a state of mere feeling which, when it has passed, leaves no spiritual improvement and often results in the subject feeling like a victim.
	www.new-enlightenment.com /altstates.htm (7115 words)

	Altered States
		Altered States (1980) was directed by the flamboyant Ken Russell.
		William Hurt, in his big screen debut, stars as a genius working at Harvard on altered states of consciousness from which he hopes to understand the death of his father.
		Altered states of consciousness was a big thing in the 60's, especially with mind altering drugs.
	www.scoopy.com /alteredstates.htm (1296 words)

	Altered States: The Origin of Art in Entoptic Phenomena
		According to Lewis-Williams and Dowson (1988) the actual translation of experienced entoptics and hallucinations into art would have come about initially as people in altered states of consciousness literally 'traced' the images they were experiencing on the wall.
		Later, once they had gotten the idea, they would have been able to paint images recollected from when they were in an altered state of consciousness.
		Lewis-Williams and Dowson (1988) state that the ability to hallucinate is not exclusively the property of human beings, that it is something common to all higher mammals: "Indeed, Australopithicines probably hallucinated." (Lewis-Williams and Dowson, 1988).
	www.wynja.com /arch/entoptic.html (2807 words)

	Altered States
		It can also occur when the electrical activity in the brain is altered in such a way that the threshold for perception of phosphenes (electrical activity in the visual system) is lowered and bright lights are seen in otherwise dark surroundings.
		The result is a state of temporal lobe epilepsy in which the individual experiences transcendent states (auras) and often feelings of possession or terror.
		"The transcendent state is characterized by 'resting-state alpha' and relatively high-amplitude, synchronous slow-wave activity in the median of the central cortex accompanied by regional (commonly temporal) gamma (30-hertz-plus) brain-wave activity."
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/ufos/states.html (1284 words)

	Altered States - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		During a typical session, the doctor guides the subject into a state of receptive concentration, asking him to imagine he is in a safe and comfortable place.
		Once the patient is in a state of hypnosis, the practitioner makes specific suggestions—a hockey player with back spasms was told that when his pads touched his back, the muscles relaxed—to address the problem.
		This not only altered their perception of the pain but also altered blood flow in pain-related parts of the brain.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6099944/site/newsweek (1049 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Albert Scardino: The Altered States
		The blue Democratic states are isolated at the margins, along the west coast, across the northern midwest and down the Atlantic seaboard to Washington DC.
		The state of Wyoming, the mappers point out in a paper distributed on the internet last week (www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/), has a land area 60 times that of Rhode Island, but fewer than half as many people.
		Other maps on the web divided North America along stark lines: "Jesusland", the red states transformed into a green blob, and the United States of Canada, a merger of the blue states with Canada, dabbed pink (www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04485.html).
	www.guardian.co.uk /analysis/story/0,3604,1352225,00.html (709 words)

	Altered States at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Altered States is the only novel (ISBN 0060107278) and last film written by Paddy Chayefsky.
		Both novel and film are based on Dr. John C. Lilly's sensory deprivation research conducted in isolation tanks and sometimes under the influence of drugs like LSD.
		Altered States is also a novel by Anita Brookner.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Altered_States.html (307 words)

	DVD.net : Altered States - DVD Review
		Like a spoiled and obsessed child, Jessup, on the point of no return, must fight as hard as he can to remain in the same state as the rest of us, but no one is sure he can actually do it, or whether he really wants to.
		Jessup's study of man's altered states is the fascinating thing, and how those around him try to reel his passion in while at the same time striving to keep their own curiosities in check.
		The acting is first rate, the music, and sound and visual effects are quite impressive, and although the first ten or 15 minutes plod along, the rest of the film seems to race along at breakneck speed.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2276 (1074 words)

	Amazon.com: Altered States: DVD: William Hurt,Blair Brown,Bob Balaban,Charles Haid,Thaao Penghlis,Miguel Godreau,Dori ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among other interesting subplots is Hurt's spiritual ambiguity since his father's fearful death, Hurt's notion that schizophrenia and related conditions may be "altered states" rather than diseases, Blair Brown's pragmatic decision to love Hurt's character, and marry him, despite the fact that he appears not to be wired to love her in return.
		For the sci-fi fan there is the once-removed-from-reality premise that man may be able to physically alter his reality through changes in consciousness, whether via the isolation tanks Hurt utlizes in his experiments, or through complex hallucinogenic drugs he researches after an experience with an obscure indian tribe in Mexico.
		Professor Eddie Jessup (William Hurt in his debut role) is intrigued by the data being produced by the use of isolation tanks to induce altered states of consciousness, and decides to undergo the experience himself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305133131?v=glance (2095 words)

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