Consciousness and Altered States
Mystical, meditative, and transformed modes of awareness.
Mystical, meditative, and transformed modes of awareness.
This volume studies meditative depth, contemplative silence, ecstatic openings, threshold states, and other transformed modes of awareness. It asks what altered states reveal about the structure of ordinary consciousness and whether expanded states disclose dimensions otherwise hidden from everyday cognition.
The book examines how states of meditation, contemplation, ecstatic absorption, and intensified interiority can alter one’s sense of time, self, meaning, and presence. It treats altered states not merely as anomalies, but as important data for understanding the range and flexibility of human awareness.
This volume is intended for readers interested in contemplative practice, spiritual experience, psychology, and the wider spectrum of consciousness beyond ordinary waking awareness.
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