Product Description: The popularization and cult-like following of electronic music has provoked new relations between men and machines, art and technology, and modern shamans and disc jockeys. New technologies and multimedia tools have awakened neo-ritual practices through the emergence of Psychedelic Trance parties, evoking tribal experiences inspired by a new shamanism, mediated by high-tech guide elements...read more

Product Description: Thomas Kirchner studies Aachen as a municipality with adherents of three Christian denominations which created the prerequisites for a peaceful coexistence temporarily between 1555 and 1618. The story of the religious crises in Aachen took place at time of conflicts between denominations in which hostilities between Protestants and Catholics destabilized Aachen between 1560 and 1614 before the Catholics finally prevailed...read more

Welcome to the past, Genius. Let's only hope you can make it back to the present. Because if you don't, Cobra may rule the world! ~ Cobra has built a time machine and plans to change the outcome of history. Whole nations could be enslaved or wiped out! As strategic and tactical wiz, Hawk names you, Genius, to lead Roadblock, Sci-Fi, Dusty, Dial-Tone, Airtight, Lady Jaye, and Mainframe against the best Cobra has to offer. ~ But you only have 24 hours in which to destroy Cobra's time machine. First you must get past waves of Cobra Vipers, the vicious Dreadnok, Ripper, and surprise creatures from the earth's past - plus your own desire to visit history! Civilization is counting on you.

Product Description: States of Consciousness expands on the pioneering work of J.H. Jackson, offering contemporary models for studying consciousness in both pathology and normal altered states, including relaxation, sleep, meditation, and hypnosis. The author clarifies distinctions between the neuroscientific and psychiatric components of consciousness; at the same time, his theories are rooted firmly in the biopsychosocial approach...read more

Product Description: Dreaming is the cognitive state uniquely experienced by humans and integral to our creativity, the survival characteristic that allows for the rapid change and innovation that defines our species and provides the basis for our art, philosophy, science, and humanity...read more

Product Description: Unlock the astonishing facts, myths, and benefits of one of the most endangered human resources—sleep.It has become increasingly clear that our sleep shapes who we are as much as, if not more than, we shape it. While most sleep research hasn’t ven­tured far beyond research labs and treatment clinics, The Secret Life of Sleep taps into the enormous reservoir of human experiences to illuminate the complexities of a world where sleep has become a dwindling resource...read more

Product Description: Spirit possession is a phenomenon that often elicits a response of fear, particular in those who are ignorant of its meaning and role within its particular religious and cultural traditions. Possession by divine beings (such as spirits or gods) is, however, a key practice in religions worldwide...read more

Product Description: The ability to move from the ordinary into an altered state of consciousness is one of the most valuable skills in both magic and religion. From the ceremonial magician to the shaman, using trance work to explore inner realms is essential to the magical process of healing, transcendence, and wisdom desired throughout diverse occult and spiritual traditions...read more

Product Description: As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine...read more

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Drawing from updated research into drugs and their short- and long-term effects, the author discusses the altered states of consciousness that result from drug use and challenges conventional thinking on the drug problem. Reprint.

Product Description: The Eye That Sees Itself is a collection of small, gem-like essays, exploring the vast domains that open up when one transcends the subject/object mode of perception. They were written by renowned physicist Shimon Malin over a period of twenty years...read more

Product Description: Modern science and technology have given us longer, healthier lives, connected continents instantly via the Internet, and made us more aware that we all share the same planet. But along with technological progress has come an increase in stress-related physical and mental health problems, the development of nuclear and biological weapons, and the onset of global warming...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Alterations of Consciousness" is an analytic investigation into the nature of cognitive reality. Imants Baruss explores various manifestations of consciousness with rational and empirical rigour beginning with more ordinary states such as thinking, sleeping, dreaming and continuing on into hypnosis, trance, psychedelic experiences, transcendence and experiences related to death...read more

Product Description: "Exploring Holotropic Breathwork" collects 144 field reports from a widespread practice of contemporary, non-drug, altered-state work. These articles were first published from 1991-2002-85 authors, trained in Holotropic Breathwork (HB) by Stanislav Grof, M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in the 1970s, this edition has an updated preface that renders the material current. The authors feel that the distribution of voluntary psi abilities within the general population is far from the bell-shaped or "normal" curve, and that many of the field's strongest experimental outcomes are obtained in a repeatable fashion because high between-subject variation seemed certain in terms of psi capacity and whatever properties of physiological organization and function might underlie it...read more

Product Description: "These enchanting stories shine a light along the path where reality and miracles meet." —Deepak ChopraA chance encounter that leads to a spiritual awakening. An awe-inspiring coincidence. A soulful connection to a strange new place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book describes a new model for trance as well as practical techniques to analyse and design trances. Trance is used consciously and unconsciously not only by psychologists, therapists and hypnotists, but also yogis, priests, magicians, witches, advertisers, politicians, lawyers, addicts and psychotics. Writing from his personal experience, Wier suggests that some of these ideas might represent new practical precision tools for psychologists as well as for those who work with the occult. Practical suggestions for meditators, yogis, witches and others are included to deepen trance and to increase the depth as well as terminating trance. Pathological trance and trance abuse are also described with suggestion on how they may be recognized and prevented.