Rather the participants were in an altered state of consciousness. Participants description of this experience varied, including intoxication and sexual orgasm. The unfamiliar sensation caused some participants to break out in fits of laughter. Overall participants claimed to have experienced an increased emotional awareness, leading them towards a state of mental liberation and relief. The participants believe their physical manifestations are external signs of the Holy Spirit’s presence. They understood this through the metaphor of a siren warning "Spirit at work... Spirit at work" (Poloma, 262). This attests to the importance placed on the spirit, their physical bodies are merely…
Television, Friend or Foe Television has been around for while and it honestly I can say it is still a fundamental item in most families around the world. Even though television has change over time, I believe that families have learned the advantages and disadvantages of having this type of technology at home. According to the article “Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood” by Joshua Meyrowitz, the author states how the television has affected the relationship between parents and…
So getting into Absolute consciousness is the belief that one did not create the world but consciousness did. So looking at that in the thought of my mind would be that the world was created because someone thought of it and the world became to be. The man knows he is conscious because the world around him is real due to him creating it. It’s god in an idea, god was the start of all absolute consciousness because he was the first thought and that thought created the world. Looking into self-…
For the most part, I believe that the mind and the body are separate, but are connected and work together. Like Descartes and other philosophers, I believe that what separates humans from other mammals is our ability to critically think and process information, our ability to think and process information goes far beyond our more developed brains than most animals. Humans ability to think is extraordinary because our thoughts are accompanied by our stream of consciousness. However,…
In the beginning of the early 17th century, consciousness had became full center in thinking about the mind and how it works. From the mid-17th through the late 19th century, consciousness had become considered necessary or definitive of the mind. Consciousness means the state or quality of awareness, or of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. René Descartes defined the belief of thought (pensée),Pensee means a though or reflection, this is a poetic from of an…
Hypnosis session In a one-hour hypnosis session with Mellen, a licensed hypnotist, I felt like I had taken a long, calm and exciting nap. Hypnosis is a human consciousness state involving focused attention and lessened peripheral awareness as well as an elevated ability to respond to suggestion. The experience was exciting. The hypnotists started by instructing me to close and open my eyes continuously in the first about 5 minutes. I was very anxious and felt like it was boring but even if I…
The first topic, and one I found most interesting is how people alter their consciousness through drugs and alcohol. This was really interesting to me as I grew up in a home with drug addiction, so learning about what makes drugs so appealing and addicting really opened my eyes. A lot of the information covered in that section was information that I was already familiar with, however I did read some things that did surprise me. For example, marijuana was listed as a hallucinogen which really…
This course, Inner Spaces and Altered States: Literature and Consciousness, has presented new, unique ways to perceive life and the reality we live in. By focusing on specific works of literature, this course offered discussions on the means people use to obtain these altered states, and the underlining truth of our understanding of reality. A document that embodies this theme specifically is Plato’s Republic Book VII: The Allegory of the Cave. It exemplifies the resistance society has to…
adrenaline or feel drowsy while reading? This is a common occurrence for every individual and it tells your body when to sleep or not. The states of consciousness ranges from alertness to sleepiness. Each stage of consciousness affects our behaviors in situations we are in. There’s 5 different states of consciousness, Focused, Drifting, Divided, walking consciousness, and sleeping and dreaming. The first one to start off will be Focused awareness, that’s when the body is fully awake. Examples…
makes us who we are; the soul and the mind/body. Physicalist theories presented by Smart and others present the idea that we are our brains; everything we are is a result of our brain processes and functionality. In this paper, I will be critiquing the soul account from a physicalist viewpoint. The soul account states that we are who we are because we have a unique soul that is only attributed to us. The soul account also states that there is nothing physical that makes us who we are. Rather,…