scholarly journals The Continuum of Mind-Body Interplay—From Placebo Effect to Unexplained Cures

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Saad ◽  
Roberta de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Placebo Effect ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Continuum

<em>Mind and body are components of the same entity, with many relations of great importance to health and disease. The next medical frontier will be to answer what are all the mind and body relations, and how it can be explored in clinical practice. In the present manuscript, the authors collected elements that could collaborate to such advancement. The first challenge is to identify how diverse mind-body phenomena, apparently different, may share common grounds, as different manifestations from a unique self-healing mechanism. The range of such spectrum goes from the underestimated placebo effect to the unexplained cure of serious diseases. In such continuum of common and uncommon phenomena regarding mind-body interactions, small daily wonders may be found in the placebo effect and spirituality in health; unusual special marvels may be found in altered states of consciousness; and great rare miracles may be found in trance states and unexplained cures. Some informal mind-body interventions may have the potential to support the clinical treatment and they could be prescribed by every clinician. Finally, the advancement of the self-healing concept could lead to a better clinical exploration of such natural hidden potential.</em>

Body-Mind Dissociation, Altered States, and Alter Worlds

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 769-806
Author(s):  
Peter Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
The Mind

A psychosomatic model of dissociation is proposed that addresses the ever adjusting mind-body relation—the constant titration of the quality and degree of the psyche’s embeddedness in the sensorial and temporal life of the body. The model highlights the function of hypnoid mechanisms (autohypnosis, distraction, somatic autostimulation) and of altered states of consciousness in facilitating and masking the work of mind-body dissociation. Transient altered states, which enable new and creative forms of mind-body experience in everyday life and in the therapy situation, are contrasted with pathological forms of retreat into alter worlds—rigidly organized, timeless, often inescapable trancelike states of mind-body dislocation. These pathological dissociative structures reshape the life of the mind and of the body, requiring new clinical approaches to these phenomena.

Profane Illuminations: Robert Anton Wilson’s Hedonic Ascesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Erik Davis
Keyword(s):  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
Psychedelic Drugs ◽  
Meta Programming ◽  
Aleister Crowley ◽  
American Counterculture

Abstract The writer Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) played a significant intellectual role in the American counterculture in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Drawing from a wide range of discourses, as well as his own occultural fictions and personal experiments in “hedonic engineering,” Wilson presented a pluralistic view of reality that combined a pragmatic skepticism with a creative and esoteric embrace of the “meta-programming” possibilities of altered states of consciousness. In his 1975 Illuminatus! trilogy, written with Robert Shea, Wilson wove anarchist, psychedelic, and occult themes into a prophetic conspiracy fiction written with a satiric and willfully pulp sensibility. Ritually experimenting with psychedelic drugs and sexual magic – experiences related in his 1977 book Cosmic Trigger – Wilson developed a wayward if deeply self-reflexive theory and dialectical method of visionary practice, one that, amidst the paranoia, presented its own deconstructive and libertarian vision of gnosis. This essay contextualizes and unpacks Wilson’s visionary pragmatism in terms of Foucault’s roughly contemporaneous notion of “technologies of self,” later elaborated by Peter Sloterdijk as “anthropotechnics.” It also traces the specific debts that Wilson owed to other esoteric and psychedelic technologists of the self, including Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary, and John Lilly.

Brain sources of EEG gamma frequency during volitionally meditation-induced, altered states of consciousness, and experience of the self

2001 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Lehmann ◽  
P.L Faber ◽  
Peter Achermann ◽  
Daniel Jeanmonod ◽  
Lorena R.R Gianotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Gamma Frequency ◽  
States Of Consciousness

Altered states of consciousness: With special reference to time and the self

PsyCh Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Marc Wittmann ◽  
Anne Giersch ◽  
Aviva Berkovich‐Ohana
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness

scholarly journals Moving beyond the concept of altered state of consciousness: the Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
ENRICO FACCO ◽  
Fabio Fracas ◽  
Patrizio Tressoldi
Keyword(s):  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Altered State ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Theoretical Paper ◽  
Altered State Of Consciousness ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness ◽  
The Mind

Aim of this theoretical paper is to review the ontological status of so-called altered states of consciousness, suggesting a revision of their common interpretation as abnormal, or anyway less-than-normal conditions. The term Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions (NOMEs), is described and emphasized as a new conceptual tool allowing a more comprehensive interpretation of the varieties of the normal albeit non ordinary consciousness experiences and their implications in the mind-body relationship.

Devils in the Ink

Aries ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-211
Author(s):  
Tommy P. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Author ◽  
The Mind

Abstract This paper explores some of the myriad connections between geometric visuals, magic, and altered states of consciousness, more specifically looking at the colocation of geometric visuals and experiences of intermediary beings. The main focus here is on how geometric visuals relate to the consciousness experiments and magical practices of American author William Burroughs (1914–1997) and his Swiss-English collaborator Brion Gysin (1916–1986). Such an analysis will also dive into the broader intellectual currents that influenced Burroughs and Gysin’s uses of geometry, yielding more abstract conceptions of how geometry relates to altered states of consciousness and intermediary beings. Furthermore, understanding how geometric manipulation of the mind works has important consequences for multiple fields outside of the history of esotericism, including market-oriented disciplines like architecture and industrial design. As such, this essay proposes that the historical study of esotericism can promote and conduct itself as an interdisciplinary space that communicates the value of its data to market-oriented fields through “material approaches” to religion à la Birgit Meyer.

Sadomasochism as a path to altered states of consciousness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Ambler ◽  
Ellen M. Lee ◽  
Kathryn R. Klement ◽  
Tonio Loewald ◽  
Brad J. Sagarin
Keyword(s):  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
States Of Consciousness
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