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Psychology 3120G Section 570

Altered States of Consciousness: Selected Topics

Professor Barušs                     Readings in Altered States of Consciousness                     2011-12

Master List

altered states of consciousness

Beischel, J., Rock, A. J. & Krippner, S. (2011). Reconceptualizing the field of altered consciousness: A 50-year retrospective. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 1: History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 113–135). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Whitehead, C. (2011). Altered consciousness in society. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 1: History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 181–202). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Maliszewski, M., Vaughan, B., Krippner, S., Holler, G. & Fracasso, C. (2011). Altering consciousness through sexual activity. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 189–209). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Dieguez, S. & Blanke, O. Altered states of bodily consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 237–262). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Mishara, A. L. & Schwartz, M. A. (2011). Altered states of consciousness as paradoxically healing: An embodied social neuroscience perspective. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 327–353). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Luke, D. (2011). Anomalous phenomena, psi, and altered consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 355–374). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

sleep

Carskadon, M. A. & Dement, W. C. (2000). Normal human sleep: An overview. In M. H. Kryger, T. Roth & W. C. Dement (Eds.), Principles and practice of sleep medicine (3rd ed., pp. 15–25). Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

Kokoszka, A. & Wallace, B. (2011). Sleep, dreams, and other biological cycles as altered states of consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 3–20). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

dreams

*Ullman, M., & Krippner, S. (with Vaughan, A.). (1973). Dream telepathy. New York: Macmillan. pages 175-185

Reed, H. (1976). Dream incubation: A reconstruction of a ritual in contemporary form. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 16(4), 53–70.

Schatzman, M. (1983). Solve your problems in your sleep. New Scientist, 98(1361), 692–693.

Schatzman, M. (1983). Sleeping on problems really can solve them. New Scientist, 99(1370), 416–417.

Barrett, D. (1993). The "committee of sleep": A study of dream incubation for problem solving. Dreaming, 3(2), 115–122.

*Stevens, A. (1995). Private myths: Dreams and dreaming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapter 9: "Practical Dreamwork."

Barrett, D. (1996). Dreams in multiple personality disorder. In D. Barrett (Ed.) Trauma and dreams (pp. 68 81). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.†

Bosnak, R. (1996). Integration and ambivalence in transplants. In D. Barrett (Ed.) Trauma and dreams (pp. 217–230). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Ullman, M. (1999). Dreaming consciousness: More than a bit player in the search for answers to the mind/body problem. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 13(1), 91–112.

LaBerge, S. & Gackenbach, J. (2000). Lucid dreaming. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 151–182). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Barrett, D. (2001). The committee of sleep: How artists, scientists, and athletes use dreams for creative problem-solving — and how you can too. New York: Crown. Chapter 9:"What Word Starts and Ends with ‘He’? Sleep on a Brainteaser and Wake Up with a Headache" (pp. 161–181)

Johnson, G. (1990). Telepathic dreams. Consciousness Review, 1, 37–46.

Child, I. L. (1985). Psychology and anomalous observations: The question of ESP in dreams. American Psychologist, 40(11), 1219–1230.

*Waggoner, R. (2009). Lucid dreaming: Gateway to the inner self. Needham, MA: Moment Point. Chapter 16: "Mutual Lucid Dreaming" (pp. 207–226)

hypnosis

Chamberlain, D. B. (1986). Reliability of birth memory: Observations from mother and child pairs in hypnosis. Journal of the American Academy of Medical Hypnoanalysts, 1, 89 98.

*Chamberlain, D. B. (1990). The expanding boundaries of memory. ReVision: The Journal of Consciousness and Change, 12(4), 11–20.

Barrett, D. (1996). Fatasizers and dissociaters: Two types of high hypnotizables, two different imagery styles. In R. G. Kunzendorf, N. P. Spanos & B. Wallace (Eds.), Hypnosis and imagination (pp. 123–135). Amityville, NY: Baywood.

Cardeña, E. (1996). "Just floating on the sky". A comparison of hypnotic and shamanic phenomena. In D. Eigner & R. van Quekelbherge (Eds.), Jahrbuch für transkulturelle medizin und psychotherapie [Yearbook of cross-cultural medicine and psychotherapy] Vol. 1994. Trance, Besessenheit, Heilrituale und Psychotherapie [Trance, Possession, Healing Rituals and Psychotherapy] (pp. 85 98). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

Barber, T. X. (1999). A comprehensive three-dimensional theory of hypnosis. In I. Kirsch, A. Capafons, E. Cardeña-Buelna & S. Amigó (Eds.), Clinical hypnosis and self-regulation: Cognitive-behavioral perspectives (pp. 21–48). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Barabasz, A.(2000). EEG markers of alert hypnosis: The induction makes a difference. Sleep and Hypnosis, 2(4), 164–169.

dissociation

. Allison, R. (With Schwarz, T.). (1980). Minds in many pieces: The making of a very special doctor. New York: Rawson, Wade. Chapter 2: "Jeanette, Who Chose to Live."

Damgaard, J. A. (1987). The inner self helper: Transcendent life within life? Noetic Sciences Review, 5, 24–28.

. Ross, C. A. (1996). History, phenomenology, and epidemiology of dissociation. In L. K. Michelson & W. J. Ray (Eds.), Handbook of dissociation: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical perspectives (pp. 3–24). New York: Plenum.

Krippner, S. (1997). Dissociation in many times and places. In S. Krippner & S. M. Powers (Eds.), Broken images, broken selves: Dissociative narratives in clinical practice (pp. 1 40). Bristol, PA: Brunner/Mazel.

Nadel, L., & Jacobs, W. J. (1998). Traumatic memory is special. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7(5), 154–157.

Winkelman, M. (2011). Shamanism and the alteration of consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 1: History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 159–180). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

psychedelics

*Grinspoon, L. & Bakalar, J. B. (1979). Psychedelic drugs reconsidered. New York: Basic. Chapter 3: "Psychedelic Drugs in the Twentieth Century" (pp. 56 88)

Doblin, R. (1991). Pahnke’s "Good Friday experiment": A long-term follow-up and methodological critique. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 23(1), 1 28.

*McKenna, T. (1993). True hallucinations: Being an account of the author’s extraordinary adventures in the devil’s paradise. New York: HarperSanFrancisco. Chapter 11 "The Experiment at La Chorrera" and Chapter 12 "In the Vortex."

Schultes, R. E., & Winkelman, M. (1996). The principal American hallucinogenic plants and their bioactive and therapeutic properties. In M. Winkelman & W. Andritzky (Eds.), Jahrbuch für transkulturelle medizin und psychotherapie [Yearbook of cross-cultural medicine and psychotherapy] Vol. 1995. Sakrale Heilpflanzen, Bewußtsein und Heilung: Transkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven [Sacred plants, consciousness and healing: Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.] (pp. 205 239). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

Strassman, R. J. (1997). Biomedical research with psychedelics: Current models and future prospects. In R. Forte (Ed.), Entheogens and the future of religion (pp. 153–162). San Francisco, CA: Council on Spiritual Practices.

Mangini, M. (1998). Treatment of alcoholism using psychedelic drugs: A review of the program of research. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 30(4), 381–418.

Smith, H. (2000). Cleansing the doors of perception: The religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam. Introduction and Chapter 1 (pp. 1–13)

Strassman, R. J. (2001). DMT: The spirit molecule. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press.

Shanon, B. (2001). Altered temporality. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8(1), 35–58.

Presti, D. E. (2011). Neurochemistry and altered consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 21–41). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Mishor, Z., McKenna, D. J. & Callaway, J. C. (2011). DMT and human consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 85–119). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Nichols, D. E. & Chemel, B. R. (2011). LSD and the serotonin system’s effects on human consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 121–146). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Schaefer, S. B. (2011). Peyote and meaning. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 147–165). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Blätter, A. E., Fachner, J, C. & Winkelman, M. (2011). Addiction and the dynamics of altered states of consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 167–187). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

alien abduction experiences

Grossinger, R. (1989). Giving them a name. ReVision: The Journal of Consciousness and Change, 11(4), 43–48.

Pritchard A., Pritchard, D. E., Mack, J. E., Kasey, P., & Yapp, C. (Eds.) (1994). Alien discussions: Proceedings of the abduction study conference held at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Cambridge, MA: North Cambridge. (pages 56–68, 136–141, 169–170, 342–347, 370–376, 508–512, 551–556)

*Bryan, C. D. B. (1995). Close encounters of the fourth kind: A reporter’s notebook on alien abduction, UFOs, and the conference at M.I.T. New York: Arkana. Chapter 13: "Postconference Interview: Carol and Alice at Their Horse Farm"

McLeod, C. C., Corbisier, B., & Mack, J. E. (1996). A more parsimonious explanation for UFO abduction. Psychological Inquiry, 7(2), 156–168.

Jacobs, D. M. (1998). The Threat. New York: Simon & Schuster. Chapter 4 (pages 61–88)

Mack, J. E. (1999). Passport to the cosmos: Human transformation and alien encounters. New York: Three Rivers. Chapter 3 (pp. 53–66)

Jacobs, D. M. (2000). The UFO abduction controversy in the United States. In D. M. Jacobs (Ed.), UFOs and abductions: Challenging the borders of knowledge (pp. 192–214). Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Appelle, S., Lynn, S. J., & Newman, L. (2000). Alien abduction experiences. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn, & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 253–282). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Hopkins, B. (2000). Hypnosis and the investigation of UFO abduction accounts. In D. M. Jacobs (Ed.), UFOs and abductions: Challenging the borders of knowledge (pp. 215 240). Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

Mack, J. E. (2000). How the alien abduction phenomenon challenges the boundaries of our reality. In D. M. Jacobs (Ed.), UFOs and abductions: Challenging the borders of knowledge (pp. 241–261). Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

transcendent states

Wren-Lewis, J. (1988). The darkness of God: A personal report on consciousness transformation through an encounter with death. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 28(2), 105–122.

Wren-Lewis, J. (1991). A reluctant mystic: God-consciousness not guru worship. Self and Society, 19(2), 4–11.

Wren-Lewis, J. (1994). Aftereffects of near-death experiences: A survival mechanism hypothesis. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 26(2), 107–115.

Merrell-Wolff, F. (1994). Franklin Merrell-wolff’s experience and philosophy: A personal record of transformation and a discussion of transcendental consciousness (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).

Merrell-Wolff, F. (1995). Mathematics, philosophy & yoga: A lecture series presented at the Los Olivos Conference Room in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1966. Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Philosophical Press.

Merrell-Wolff, F. (1995). Transformations in consciousness: The metaphysics and epistemology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Heintz, L. & Barušs, I. (2001). Spirituality in late adulthood. Psychological Reports, 88, 651 654.

Taylor, E. (1997). Introduction. In M. Murphy & S. Donovan (Authors) and E. Taylor (Ed.), The physical and psychological effects of meditation: A review of contemporary research with a comprehensive bibliography 1931–1996 (pp. 1 32). Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Murphy, M. (1997). Scientific studies of contemplative experience: An overview. In M. Murphy & S. Donovan (Authors) and E. Taylor (Ed.), The physical and psychological effects of meditation: A review of contemporary research with a comprehensive bibliography 1931–1996 (pp. 33 44). Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Forman, K. C. (1998). What does mysticism have to teach us about consciousness? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5(2), 185–201.

d’Aquili, E. G., & Newberg, A. B. (2000). The neuropsychology of aesthetic, spiritual, and mystical states. Zygon, 35(1), 39–51.

Wulff, D. M. (2000). Mystical experience. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 397–440). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Andresen, J. (2000). Meditation meets behavioural medicine: The story of experimental research on meditation. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7(11 12), 17–73.

Borg, J, Andrée, B., Soderstrom, H., & Farde, L. (2003). The serotonin system and spiritual experiences. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(11), 1965–1969.

Mipham, S. (2003). Turning the mind into an ally. New York: Riverhead Books. Chapter 3 "Peaceful Abiding" (pp. 24–34)

Barušs, I. (2007). Franklin Wolff’s mathematical resolution of existential issues. Journal of Scientific Exploration 21(4), 751–756.

Shear J. (2011) Eastern approaches to altered states of consciousness. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 1: History, culture, and the humanities (pp. 139–158). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Beauregard, M. (2011). Transcendent experiences and brain mechanisms. In E. Cardeña & M. Winkelman (Eds.), Altering consciousness: Multidisciplinary perspectives: Volume 2: Biological and psychological perspectives (pp. 63–84). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

near-death experiences

Ring, K. (1987). Near-death experiences: Intimations of immortality? In J. S. Spong (Ed.), Consciousness and survival: An interdisciplinary inquiry into the possibility of life beyond biological death (pp. 165-176). Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Grof, S. (1987). Survival of consciousness after death: Myth and science. In J. S. Spong (Ed.), Consciousness and survival: An interdisciplinary inquiry into the possibility of life beyond biological death (pp. 135–164). Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences. [from M4320]

Greyson, B. (2000). Near-death experiences. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 315–352). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

*Atwater, P. M. H. (2007). The big book of near-death experiences: The ultimate guide to what happens when we die. Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads. Chapters 4 (pp. 53-70), 7 (pp. 99-112), & 21 (pp. 315-330)

*Atwater, P. M. H. (2011). Near-death experiences: The rest of the story: What they teach us about living, dying, and our true purpose. Charlottesville, Virginia: Hampton Roads. Chapters 20-23 (pp. 181-217)

survival hypothesis

Jue, R. W. (1996). Past-life therapy. In B. W. Scotton, A. B. Chinen & J. R. Battista (Eds.), Textbook of transpersonal psychiatry and psychology (pp. 377–387). New York: BasicBooks.

*Osis, K. & Haraldsson, E. (1997). At the hour of death (3rd ed.) Norwalk, CT: Hastings House. Chapter 8 (pages 62–80)

Stevenson, I. (1997). Where reincarnation and biology intersect. Westport, CT: Praeger. Chapters 1–3 & 6

Stevenson, I. (1997). Reincarnation and biology: A contribution to the etiology of birthmarks and birth defects. Westport, CT: Praeger. "The Case of Süleyman Çapar" (pp. 1429 1442).

Pearsall, P., Schwartz, G.E.R., & Russek, L.G.S. (1999). Changes in heart transplant recipients that parallel the personalities of their donors. Integrative Medicine, 2(2/3), 65–72.

*Keen, M., Ellison, A., & Fontana, D. (1999). The Scole report: An account of an investigation into the genuineness of a range of physical phenomena associated with a mediumistic group in Norfolk, England. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 58 (Pt. 220), 149–392. Introduction and Chapters 1–3 (pp. 157-201)

Alvarado, C. S. (2000). Out-of-body experiences. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn, & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 183–218). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Mills, A., & Lynn, S. J. (2000). Past-life experiences. In E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn, & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (pp. 283–313). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Bowman, C. (2001). Return from heaven: Beloved relatives reincarnated within your family. New York: HarperCollins. Chapter 2 (pages 21–46)

Keen, M. (2001). The Scole investigation: A study in critical analysis of paranormal physical phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15(2), 167 182.

Barušs, I. (2001). Failure to replicate electronic voice phenomenon. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15(3), 355 367.

Schwartz, G. E. (with Simon, W. L.). (2002). The afterlife experiments: Breakthrough scientific evidence of life after death. New York: Pocket Books. Appendix C "Journal Article on Accuracy and Replicability of After-Death Communication" (pp. 291 319)

*Braude, S. E. (2003). Immortal remains: The evidence for life after death. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter 6 (pp. 177-224)

Woods, K. & Barušs, I. (2004). Experimental test of possible psychological benefits of past-life regression. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 18(4), 597–608.

Fontana, D. (2005). Is there an afterlife? A comprehensive overview of the evidence. Winchester, UK: O Books.

Barušs, I. (2007). An experimental test of instrumental transcommunication. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 21(1), 89–98.

Leininger, B. & Leininger, A. (with K. Gross) (2009). Soul survivor: The reincarnation of a World War II fighter pilot. New York: Grand Central.

Moody, R. (with P. Perry) (2010). Glimpses of eternity: Sharing a loved one’s passage from this life to the next. New York: Guideposts.

Cardoso, A. (2010). Electronic voices: Contact with another dimension. Winchester, UK: O Books.

Schwartz, G. E. (2011). The sacred promise: How science is discovering spirit’s collaboration with us in our daily lives. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words.