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	Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment.
		In common parlance, consciousness denotes being awake and responsive to one's environment; this contrasts with being asleep or being in a coma.
		Modern investigations into and discoveries about consciousness are based on psychological statistical studies and case studies of consciousness states and the deficits caused by lesions, stroke, injury, or surgery that disrupt the normal functioning of human senses and cognition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consciousness (6741 words)

	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, lucid dreams, euphoria, ecstasy, psychosis as well as purported premonitions, out-of-body experiences, and channeling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altered_state_of_consciousness (295 words)

	Hypnosis & the Use of Imagery in Working with the Terminally Ill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The hypnotic state has been considered, by some, to be an altered state of consciousness often called a "trance." (Watkins and Watkins, 1986) According to Pattison, Kahan, and Hurd (1986), trance states are a mode of consciousness in which the person is conscious, but seemingly unaware or unresponsive to usual external and internal stimuli.
		In my opinion, the state of hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which the individual is seemingly unaware or unresponsive to external and internal stimuli but is susceptible to suggestions and actions by the individual, through self-hypnosis, or the hypnotist.
		The altered state of consciousness, being in a trance and in a dissociative state, is associated with all the levels of the hypnotic consciousness.
	www.lutz-sanfilippo.com /library/counseling/lsfhypnosis.html (3434 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)

	Altered States of Consciousness
		While in the ASC their body or mental abilities are radically different to when in an everyday state of mind.
		In this ASC a state of consciousness is reached where all the opposites of life are resolved, where everything is true and untrue at the same time.
		In older cultures, ASC's were frequently sought as a part of the person's spiritual life; as a way to heal psychological or physical illness; as a way of solving a problem, such as where to hunt or whether and where to fight an invader.
	www.dreamhawk.com /ascs.htm (7209 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness, Retreat 1997
		For example, normal waking consciousness is altered when one’s wife is having a baby and when one is in a dangerous situation.
		Modern science has begun to understand altered states of consciousness as a structural arrangement of the brain cells and a biochemical process in the brain, which is where Andre begins his discourse.
		While he was in an altered state of consciousness, the angel spoke to him and gave him signs and powers to perform before the Pharaoh in Egypt.
	www.plim.org /alteredstate97.html (1300 words)

	Hypnotic Trance in Spiritual Development
		This dissociation of consciousness is clearly manifested in the realm of hypnotically induced analgesia.
		The higher trance state was precisely that state of consciousness induced by the Mystery Traditions of Egypt and Greece and incorporated into Esoteric Christianity.
		Somnambulism: A deep state of hypnotic trance often characterized by amnesia (loss of memory), positive and negative hallucinations (seeing objects which aren't present and not seeing object that are present), anesthesia (lack of sensation), and the ability to open the eyes and remain in full trance.
	www.hermes-press.com /hypnosis_AS.htm (6049 words)

	Peter — SC Altered State of Consciousness — 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		My own experience of the altered state of consciousness commonly known as Enlightenment is that it is not an extinguishing of ego but it is a delusion whereby one’s personal identity is transformed into an impersonal grandiose identity.
		Altered states of consciousness are far more tempting because denial and dissociation are easier options...
		I eventually came to understand that the revered spiritual states of consciousness were in fact a retreat from the world of people, things and events such that the entire physical world appeared to be an illusion and it felt as though only ‘I’ existed.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /actualism/peter/selected-correspondence/corr-asc3.htm (2963 words)

	Consciousness and Creative Trance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is in this trance state that the individual in an altered state of consciousness can connect with the noumenal, which might be interpreted as access to a kind of group mind, or a spiritual/mystical experience.
		Wavell refers to trance as ‘a state of liberation’, freeing the trancers from the bounds of ordinary reality, from ‘the prison of the senses’, and he suggests that perhaps through trance it will be possible to transcend space and time.
		Consciousness involves both sensory feedback mechanisms and imaginative practices based in fields of signification which are culturally determined.
	theparty.netraver.org.za /Trance.html (1905 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness
		The term "state" is not to be trivialized but denotes the states or stages of behavior through which the individual progresses.
		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.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/altered_states_of_consciousness.html (928 words)

	Altered State of Consciousness
		That is, consciousness is 'the eternal subject, the only existence, and the only one Reality.' The same consciousness percolates through the varied structural arrangement of brain-mind complex and is perceived as many-fold.
		The alteration in the state of consciousness may be brought about by the functional or structural change in the brain, which in turn, can be induced by drugs, dreams, hypnosis, sleep, or spiritual practices -sadhana.
		From the life of Sri Ramakrishna, it is found that the desirability of 'samadhi' as the altered state lies in that it makes the individual (and thereby, the community as a whole) selfless, ethical, value oriented, and divine.
	www.geocities.com /neovedanta/asc.html (619 words)

	What is Centering? by Don Matzat
		The brain waves emitted between "beta" and "theta," the state of consciousness between normal mental activity and sleep, when the brain is emitting between eight to 13 vibrations per second, Berger termed "alpha" rhythms.
		Those who are presently promoting this altered state of consciousness within the church are not theologians reviving medieval mysticism, but are rather psychologists or those influenced by psychology.
		The purpose of entering the altered state of consciousness is to entertain and interact with the images that arise in the imagination.
	www.issuesetc.org /resource/journals/centerng.htm (1901 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness(Paganlore.com)
		You have changed your focus of consciousness every night since the day you were born when you went to sleep.
		Altering your consciousness for divine alignment exercises, pathworking, or any other type of meditation, spell, or ritual work, is merely a process of learning to consciously control which of these four brain wave levels you function at (usually always alpha and theta for inner-plane work)l, and deciding yourself how long you remain in each.
		To place yourself deliberately into one of these altered states is not a mysterious or frightening trip into dangerously unknown realms which can only be attained and mastered by some great adept.
	www.paganlore.com /altered_states_of_consciousness.asp (674 words)

	Altered States of Consciousness - 2002 Conference - Home
		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.
		This is a forum where philosophy and theories of consciousness from both the scientific and spiritual perspectives can be shared.
	www.bizspirit.com /alteredstates/index.html (306 words)

	Altered state of consciousness - Apr. 20, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I was in fact in another state of consciousness.
		I remember that was the same state of mind I had when I walked on fire in Tagaytay in the early '80s.
		It must be the same state of mind people have when lying down on the table of a faith healer while being operated on.
	www.inq7.net /lif/2004/apr/20/lif_22-1.htm (904 words)

	Peter — SC Altered State of Consciousness — 2
		These ASC experiences are most common during ‘dark nights of the soul’, after imbibing hallucinogenic drugs, after intense periods of prayer, meditation or some similar spiritual practice.
		Although one doesn’t ‘get out of it’ in an altered state of consciousness by imbibing alcohol, its effects dulls the senses sufficiently to provide many people with a sense of temporary relief and refuge from the stresses inherent in the rat race world of material pursuit.
		Having achieved the altered state of consciousness, whereby one is God, it is also a very lonely business and one needs love from others.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /actualism/peter/selected-correspondence/corr-asc2.htm (11222 words)

	An altered state of consciousness
		Hypnosis, which is sometimes referred to as hypnotherapy or hypnotic suggestion, is an altered state of consciousness.
		This state of consciousness is generally artificially induced and is different from your everyday awareness.
		This conscious creation of vivid, meaningful pictures in your mind is called mental imagery, and it's a powerful way to help bring about what you want to achieve.
	hypnosisonline.com /papers/106.htm (1165 words)

	Hypnosis as an altered state of consciousness
		If hypnosis is a kind of altered state of consciousness, then, as has been suggested, poets, salesmen, politicians, teachers, parents are all hypnotists.
		For the most part, it is a state of consciousness we can experience on our own.
		It is also a way of getting things to happen in our heads and in our bodies that we may believe we could not make happen; things that we thought happened only spontaneously and involuntarily, with our ability to do anything mentally about it, like lowering blood pressure, or recalling long buried and forgotten memories.
	members.tripod.com /zenol/hypnopractice.html (991 words)

	The Toronto Blessing Called "Altered State of Consciousness"
		This same author asks the question, "What is an 'altered state of consciousness'?" and answers, "Our normal state is considered to be a waking state." Then there is the sleeping state.
		In his foreword Dr. John White stated, "Anyone who has experience in helping to nurture "baby prophets" realizes that they have difficulty in distinguishing the words that the Spirit speaks from those that come from their own hearts or even from evil sources.
		He states, "Criticism is one of the ultimate manifestations of pride because, whenever we criticize someone else we are by that assuming that we are superior to them.
	www.cephasministry.com /toronto_altered_state_of_consciousness.html (3718 words)

	Altered State of Consciousness (ASC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		state in which the usual balance between consciousness and unconsciousness is changed — for example, during hypnosis, or in a trance or dream state, when the conscious is subdued and the unconscious takes over.
		The operation of some phenomena is thought to depend on the subject being in an altered state of consciousness.
		The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.
	www.occultopedia.com /a/altered_state_of_consciousness.htm (609 words)

	CSP - 'Altered States of Consciousness' by Charles T. Tart
		The Physiology of Some Altered States of Consciousness, references, author index, subject index.
		Persons can be studied extensively both before and after the experience of mystical consciousness in controlled settings.
		As noted above, experimental subjects who have experienced this form of consciousness have made powerful claims of increased personality-integration, of greater sensitivity to the authentic problems of other persons, of a responsible independence of social pressures, of both sensing deeper purposes in life and losing anxieties about death, guilt, and meaninglessness, and so forth.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/altered_states-tart1.html (606 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Index of Cults and Religions
		Altered States of Consciousness: Trances entered through hypnosis, meditation, drugs (including hallucinogenics), visualization, etc. State of being in which one allows the subconscious to take control and guide.
		Thus, Jesus was conscious of his deity or “the Christ within” and others can have this same “Christ-consciousness” by realizing that they, too, are divine.
		Conscious Living Foundation, Drain, OR: New Age, states of consciousness, visualization.
	www.watchman.org /cat95.htm (14256 words)

	Brain chemistry and ´ altered state of consciousness ª
		Before pursuing, the authors wish to state clearly that this paper does not aim at providing the reader with " the " definitive answer to the abduction question.
		This technique requires some training to trigger OBE as the mind of the person reaches the appropriate state of consciousness.
		These entities are placed on earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path, and while on Ketamine, Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrial, who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet.
	www.ufocom.org /UfocomS/usDmt10.html (3419 words)

	Topics — Altered State of Consciousness
		Richard: For eleven years I lived in an Altered State Of Consciousness, so I had plenty of time to examine all its nooks and crannies...
		Bewitched and beguiled by the glamour and glory and glitz of the seductive ‘State Of Being’ that ensues when one surrenders to that ‘Power and Authority’, I spent the first three years swanning along in a state of ‘Oneness with everything’.
		The Altered State of Consciousness — in particular, spiritual enlightenment — needs to be talked about and exposed for what it is so that nobody need venture up that blind alley ever again.
	www.actualfreedom.com.au /library/topics/asc.htm (580 words)

	ASC (Altered State of Consciousness)
		ASC (Altered State of Consciousness) n : a brain state differing from normal consciousness.
		Feelings experienced during an altered brain state can be both pleasant and unpleasant.
		There can be a number of different reasons why an individual might enter an altered state of consciousness and these can include: use of drugs, sometimes hypnosis, trauma, sensory deprivation, sleep disturbance, fever or a neurochemical imbalance.
	www.paranormality.com /asc.shtml (136 words)

	Alpha - An Altered State of Consciousness
		It is one that needs to be properly mastered before moving onto techniques that involve visualization, and from there beyond to contemplative methods and astral travel.
		This page contains quotes by those involved in the occult, not as an endorsement of such but rather to show connection between the occult and an altered state of consciousness.
		This is a state associated with relaxation, meditation and dreaming...In alpha the mind opens up to non ordinary forms of communication...Here we also experience out-of-body sensations and psychokinesis and receive mystical, visionary information" Lori Cabot, Power Of the Witch, Delta Books, 1989
	www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com /alpha.htm (514 words)

	Consciousness Inducing Animal, Altered State of Consciousness, Cosmic Collective United Consciousness, Higher Quantum ...
		The prime, nature-disconnected shortcoming in contemporary thinking and consciousness is so simple and common that you can identify and experience it, first-hand, on the pages of the book's introduction.
		for the incomplete thinking and consciousness omission that places the health of our personal and planet natural systems at risk.
		Authentically reconnecting with nature is the only possible way to heal the wounds that society has inflicted on our soul and consciousness.
	www.organicpsychology.com /indexmulti90.html (440 words)

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