Journal of Consciousness Studies controversies in science & the humanities
Altered States of Consciousness
Special Issue edited by
Arne Dietrich
4 About Authors
9 Editorial Introduction: Altered States of Consciousness Arne Dietrich
13 Beyond the REM–NREM Dichotomy: A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Dreaming Georgina Nemeth & Peter Fazekas
34 The Wandering Mind: Where Imagination Meets Consciousness Anna Abraham
53 Hypnosis as an Altered State of Consciousness John F. Kihlstrom
73 Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness Peter Sedlmeier
102 Flow, Altered States of Consciousness, and Human Evolution Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Jeanne Nakamura
115 Are There Varying Depths in Flow? Altered States of Consciousness, Absorption, and the Brain Christine Mohr
131 Expanding the Scientific Study of Self-Experience with Psychedelics Manesh Girn & Kalina Christoff
155 A Taxonomy of Ecstatic States in the Context of Psychotherapy with Psychedelic Substances Torsten Passie & Christian Scharfetter
179 Altered States of Consciousness, Spirit Mediums, and Predictive Processing: A Cultural Cognition Model of Spirit Possession Ronald Fischer & Sivaporn Tasananukorn
204 A Neurotheological Perspective on Altered States of Consciousness Andrew B. Newberg & David B. Yaden
226 The Transient Hypofrontality Theory of Altered States of Consciousness Arne Dietrich & Laith Al-Shawaf
Annual Index
248 Index of Titles 2018
252 Index of Names 2018