Consciousness & Reality
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Altered States & Exceptional Experience
Meditation, trance, psychedelics in educational context, near-death reports, and unusual states.
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Altered States & Extraordinary Reports
Explore meditation, psychedelic research, near-death experiences, trance and hypnosis while separating experience, measurement, mechanism and interpretation.
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Mystical Experience & Spiritual Interpretation
Humans can have experiences of unity, sacredness, presence, timelessness, certainty and self-transcendence. Science can study the structure, predictors and consequences of those experiences. It cannot simply leap from the experience to one metaphysical explanation of what ultimately caused it.
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The Final Moments of Consciousness
When the familiar world falls silent, what can we still know about awareness? Explore sudden lucidity, the dying brain, deathbed encounters and the unresolved question of consciousness beyond death, while keeping observation and interpretation distinct.
4 Articles
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