Consciousness is not just a bunch of different levels. It's a group of different states, of which the best worked out are those involving wakefulness and the different stages of sleep. But ...

A US biotech startup called Mindstate Design Labs is doing exactly that—developing next-generation psychedelics designed to ...

There is also Holotropic Breathwork (HB), which helps participants enter a nonordinary state of consciousness to activate inner healing. It does so with a tailored setting and process, fast, deep ...

Also known as HB, it is a type of breathwork that can assist participants in reaching a different state of consciousness for inner healing -- all without the use of drugs.

In a similar way, altered states of consciousness, such as those induced by psychedelic drugs or low oxygen levels, involve normal levels of arousal but disorganized sensory experiences.

Consciousness, this and other research reveals, is not simply a binary—on or off, conscious or unconscious—but instead something that can encompass a continuum of different states that involve ...

Consciousness, the substrate for any emotional feeling, is itself a “motion of the mind,” an ephemeral state characterized by certain dynamical patterns of electrical activity.

Researchers find a better way to measure consciousness Date: March 16, 2021 Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Summary: Millions of people are administered general anesthesia each year in the ...

The editors at Communications Psychology invite research manuscripts investigating states of consciousness, as for example induced by psychoactive substances, hypnosis, meditation, or arising as a ...

Stage 1 sleep demonstrates that states of consciousness not only fluidly run into each other, but often are not recognized. Many people have microsleeps of 3-30 seconds, especially when driving ...