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.

The new study shows how lucid dreaming, which the paper said has “remained poorly understood” — works on a molecular and electrochemical level. The work could provide more insight into similarities ...

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 ...

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 ...

For millennia, people have used mind-altering techniques to achieve different states of consciousness, envision spiritual figures, connect with nature, or simply for the fun of it. Psychedelic ...

Koch’s empirical study of consciousness includes studying the brain by putting people in a scanner and examining the parts of the brain that are active as people progress through different states of ...

In general, the ganzfeld experiment can put a person into a different state of consciousness — somewhere in between being asleep and awake. While in this state, ...