alternative states of consciousness

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alternative states of consciousness,

n.pl states of consciousness whose form and/or content are primarily determined through factors different from normal waking awareness. Includes those states of consciousness engendered through dreams, meditation, use of mind-altering substances, or mystical/transpersonal experience. The use of “alternative” connotes a nonnormative approach to waking consciousness. Also called
ASC. See also altered states of consciousness.

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altered states of consciousness CAM			Tapping the Spiritual Wisdom Within by Ray Wooten, and it presents several key aspects of shamanism: the shaman has the ability to intentionally enter alternative states of consciousness and journey between the physical world and the world of spirit or the world of the spirit self, that is to enter nonordinary reality. Editor's note by Hartman, David / Journal of Heart Centered Therapies			alternating alternating calculus alternating checkerboard stimulus alternating current alternating hemiplegia alternating hypertropia alternating mydriasis alternating pulse alternating tremor alternation alternation of generations alternation of heart alternation rules alternative alternative benefit plan alternative birthing center alternative complement pathway alternative delivery system alternative healing alternative hypothesis alternative inheritance alternative lifestyle alternative medicine alternative pathway of complement activation alternative site provider alternative states of consciousness Alternative therapy alternative treatment plan alternator alternobaric alternobaric trauma alternobaric vertigo ALTEs Althaea officinalis althesin altitude Altitude Anoxia altitude decompression sickness altitude disease altitude sickness altitudinal hemianopsia Altocor altrenogest altretamine altricial Altromed-S altruism Altruistic Suicide Alu family Alu sequences alula			Alternative Search Engine Alternative Secondary Path to Certification Alternative Sentencing Program Alternative Service Book Alternative Service Book Alternative Service Book Alternative Service Delivery Alternative Service Delivery Costing Guidelines Alternative Service Processing System Alternative Service Provider Alternative Service Worker Alternative Sheltered Employment Alternative Site Processing Team alternative site provider Alternative Small Target Block Alternative Software Development Kit Alternative Solution for International Accounting Alternative Solutions Inc. Alternative Source Term Alternative Space Craft Alternative Specific Constants Alternative Splicing Factor alternative splicing of the p53 mRNA Alternative Sports World Cup Alternative Spring Break Alternative Spring Break Detroit alternative states of consciousness Alternative Strategies and Regulatory Affairs Division Alternative Strategies for Tax Administration Alternative Strategies for the Handicapped Alternative Strategy Advisers LLC Alternative Subgraphs Assembly Line Balancing Problem Alternative Support Apparatus Alternative Support for Induction Science Teachers Alternative sweetener Alternative sweetener Alternative System of Control Alternative systems Alternative systems Alternative systems Alternative systems Alternative Systems Review Alternative Tariff Alternative Tariffs Alternative Tax Net Operating Loss Alternative Tax Net Operating Loss Deduction Alternative Tea Alternative Tea Alternative Tea Alternative Tea Alternative Technical Concept Alternative Technologies and Approaches Alternative Technologies and Approaches Team Alternative Technologies International Alternative Technology Association Alternative Technology Centre Alternative Tentacles

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