Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of ReadingsWhenever I speak on the topic of dreams, I mention a very unusual of dream the lucid dream in which the dreamer knows he is dreaming and feels fully conscious difficulties in defining states of consciousness, I always ask weather anyone has the slightest doubt that he is awake that is in a normal state of consciouness at the moment; I have never found anyone who had difficulty in making this destinction. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO SECTION 1 SOME GENERAL | 7 |
Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience Arthur | 23 |
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