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Tables of Contents for States of Consciousness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
vii
Section I: States
The Systems Approach to States of Consciousness
3
7
The Components of Consciousness: Awareness, Energy, Structures
10
17
Conservative and Radical Views of the Mind
27
6
The Nature of Ordinary Consciousness
33
18
Discrete States of Consciousness
51
12
Stabilization of a State of Consciousness
63
7
Induction of Altered States: Going to Sleep, Hypnosis, Meditation
70
18
Subsystems
88
52
Individual Differences
140
6
Using Drugs to Induce Altered States
146
10
Observation of Internal States
156
7
Identity States
163
8
Strategies in Using the Systems Approach
171
11
The Depth Dimension of a State of Consciousness
182
19
State-Specific Communication
201
5
State-Specific Sciences
206
23
Higher States of Consciousness
229
14
Section II: Speculation
As Above, So Below: Five Basic Principles Underlying Physics and Psychology
243
15
Ordinary Consciousness as a State of Illusion
258
14
Ways Out of Illusion
272
15
Bibliography
287
10
Index
297