Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self Audiobook (Free)

What altered claims of awareness―the dissolution of emotions of your time and personal―can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.

During extraordinary moments of consciousness―shock, meditative expresses and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body encounters, or medication intoxication―our senses of time and self are altered; we may actually feel period and self dissolving. These experiences have long been disregarded by mainstream research, or regarded as crazy fantasies. Latest research, however, provides located about Modified States of Consciousness: Encounters Out of Time and Personal the neural underpinnings of the altered states of mind. Within this reserve, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann displays how experiences that disturb or widen our daily knowledge of the self can help resolve the secret of consciousness.

Wittmann explains that the relationship between awareness of your time and consciousness of self is close; in intense circumstances, the encounters of space and personal intensify and weaken collectively. He considers the emergence from the self in waking life and dreams; how our feeling of time is distorted by extreme situations ranging from terror to mystical enlightenment; the experience of the moment; and the loss of period and personal in such disorders simply because unhappiness, schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Dostoyevsky reported godly bliss during epileptic seizures; neurologists are actually investigating the trend from the epileptic aura. Wittmann explains new research of psychedelics that display how the human brain builds consciousness of personal and period, and discusses pilot applications that make use of hallucinogens to take care of severe depression, stress, and addiction.

If we want to understand our awareness, our subjectivity, Wittmann argues, we should not hesitate to break new surface. Studying altered state governments of awareness leads us right to the center of the problem: period and self, the foundations of consciousness.