Discovering the right brain dominance during an
altered state of consciousness helps to explain the experience.
The ratio between visual hallucinations and hallucinations in other sensory modalities may, in some instances, be affected by the cause of the
altered state of consciousness in which they occur.
The reclamation of Freud's seduction theory in the past decade has accompanied a renewed focus on an
altered state of consciousness induced by terror, Herman notes.
In another interesting practice that was actually captured a few years back in a PBS documentary of a South American tribe, the healer enters an
altered state of consciousness from which to do his healing work.
The shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) represents a discrete
altered state of consciousness following Charles Tart's categorizations, and is a "dream-like state, somewhere between sleep and wakefulness" (Achterberg, 1985, p.
To induce a psi-conducive
altered state of consciousness, the sender listened to an audio tape that contained either pink noise (a component of the ganzfeld procedure for inducing an ASC) or pink noise on which were superimposed binaural beats.
Dreams are a powerful
altered state of consciousness with images and symbols relevant to material accessed through hypnotic means.
Shamanism, in particular, links
altered state of consciousness and suggestion, and in its most basic forms, clients are encouraged to experience trance states.
Transition from a normal to an
altered state of consciousness, e.
One of the first things that must be recognized here is that, perhaps because of the
altered state of consciousness involved, this experience is far more fluid than normal experience, and has fewer boundaries.
These key features seem to add up to one primary kind of PK experience that involves an
altered state of consciousness with a narrowing of attention and a loss of sense of surroundings, a sense of connection, dissociation from the individual ego identity, suspension of the intellect, the frequent presence of peak emotions or playfulness, a sense of energy, focused intent, lack of effort, release of attention, openness to the experience, a sense of impact, a "knowing," and an overlap between ESP and PK states and/or energy.
12) A well-known example of free-response testing that included an
altered state of consciousness was the dream ESP work conducted at Maimonides Medical Center during part of the 1960s and the 1970s.
