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ISBN-13:	9780595151967
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Section I	States
1.	The Systems Approach to States of Consciousness	3
2.	The Components of Consciousness: Awareness, Energy, Structures	10
3.	Conservative and Radical Views of the Mind	27
4.	The Nature of Ordinary Consciousness	33
5.	Discrete States of Consciousness	51
6.	Stabilization of a State of Consciousness	63
7.	Induction of Altered States: Going to Sleep, Hypnosis, Meditation	70
8.	Subsystems	88
9.	Individual Differences	140
10.	Using Drugs to Induce Altered States	146
11.	Observation of Internal States	156
12.	Identity States	163
13.	Strategies in Using the Systems Approach	171
14.	The Depth Dimension of a State of Consciousness	182
15.	State-Specific Communication	201
16.	State-Specific Sciences	206
17.	Higher States of Consciousness	229
Section II	Speculation
18.	As Above, So Below: Five Basic Principles Underlying Physics and Psychology	243
19.	Ordinary Consciousness as a State of Illusion	258
20.	Ways Out of Illusion	272
	Bibliography	287
	Index	297

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