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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Altered states of consciousness"”.
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
There are transformative experiences of altered states of consciousness common to the human condition that exist across cultures, belief systems and appear in both religious and secular literature. These experiences can hold profound meaning to the individuals that hold them and cause tremendous …
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Creativity, altered states of consciousness and anomalous cognition: the role of epistemological flexibility in the creative process
… a question is posed that concerns ‘varieties of creativity’ that have infrequently been explored empirically, although often described anecdotally. This question being: is, and if so, how, is creativity related to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) and parapsychological experiences? This …
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Where Does it Stem From? - Functional Neuroimaging of Monoaminergic Brainstem Nuclei in Altered States of Consciousness: Translational, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) provide models through which the necessary and sufficient neural underpinnings for consciousness can be characterised. Indeed, the study of ASCs through human functional neuroimaging has identified large-scale cortical networks (such as the default mode …
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy …
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Painting as process: a Jungian approach to image and imagination as experiential practice in contemporary culture
… the psychologically transformative properties of painting are explored as aesthetic process and aesthetic product in abstract painting. Consideration is given to precedents within modern culture and the arts in relation to mainstream and marginal practice, along with the concept of the Other as …
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The cognitive function of the DMN and its role in consciousness
Background: Whatever mental states one is experiencing, the brain is constantly active and demonstrates surprisingly regular spatial patterns, which are characterised by the presence of intrinsic functional connectivity networks (ICNs). Among them, the default mode network (DMN) has generated …
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The origins of Christian ecstasy: a critical survey.
… ecstatic phenomena analysed? (II) In the light of this, how far are various types of experience familiar to the ancient (non-Christian) Mediterranean world to be und.erstood as ecstatic? (III) How are we to locate pre-Montanist Christianity within (or outside) this spectrum? The whole is …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… groups are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent section in my thesis. The transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors are like-wise categorized into separate groups. These separate groups and subsequent sections are …
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Probing the depths of unconsciousness with multifunctional neurotechnology
Innovation in the interrelated fields of anesthesia and psychiatry demands an improved understanding of the mechanisms behind altered states of consciousness. Studying the brain's functional equilibrium, and how it can be disrupted, has motivated increasingly high resolution and multifunctional …
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Sleep, Sickness, and Spirituality: Altered States and Victorian Visions of Femininity in British and American Art, 1850-1915
This dissertation examines representations in art of the Victorian woman in “altered states.” Though characterized in Victorian art in a number of ways, women are most commonly stereotyped as physically listless and mentally vacuous. The images examined show the Victorian female in a languid and at …
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Religious orientation and flow
<p>This study explored the nature and extent of relationships between religious orientations, religious orthodoxy, and flow, which is an experience akin to “being in the zone” in sports. The three religious orientations examined were intrinsic religiosity, which involves shaping one’s life around …
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Human levitation
… hovers or moves around, seemingly in defiance of the force of gravity. Traditionally most levitation reports have originated from seven groups: shamanism, people supposedly possessed by demonic spiritual entities, those subjected to poltergeist activity, Spiritualism, people who believe they …
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Anatomy of visual hallucinations and fluctuations of consciousness in Lewy body diseases
… are characterized by parkinsonian disorders of movement and neuropsychiatric features of dementia, visual hallucinations and altered states of consciousness. The underlying neurobiological changes responsible for the psychiatric features are poorly understood. The integrative centre and key …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’. This thesis consists of an interdisciplinary research on an aesthetic particularism mentioned by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss as “The split representation in the Art of Asia …
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Investigating the Neurophenomenological Dynamics of Breathwork and DMT
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) that produce subjectively rich states, such as those induced by psychedelics, have recently been praised as useful tools within the neuroscience of consciousness, due to their radical and reversible impacts on both brain dynamics and subjective experience. …
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Complex, yet Resolved: Time-, Frequency-, and Information-resolved Approaches to Brain Function and Human Consciousness
Different perturbations of the brain’s delicate functioning, ranging from transient pharmacological interventions to severe trauma, can result in altered states of consciousness. To illuminate how the neurobiology and organization of the human brain support consciousness, we need to identify …
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Cognitive neuroscience framework of conscious dreaming: dream lucidity applications and novel induction protocols
Undertaken research consists of 9 peer-reviewed, publicly-accessible and published scientific articles. To contextualize the selected outputs as a coherent body of work, the aim and the body of this research portfolio can be demonstrated as a three-fold methodological approach. To investigate the …
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