Altered state of consciousness

For decades, the etiology of schizophrenia has altered and caused some controversies that researchers currently do not have answers to (Gupta & Kulhara, 2010). Scientists have conducted studies that prove that schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorder. Still, that is not enough for some experts who think otherwise. Some argue that schizophrenia is a biological disorder but there are people who disagreed. Scientists even traced back to a clinical observation involving…

Since the beginning of time humans have been using psychoactive substances. The reasons behind substance drug use vary from person to person and change century to century. There are five historical categories in which substance drug use fall into: basic need to cope with their environment, brain chemistry, involvement of the ruling class or government, technological advances in refining synthesizing and manufacturing drugs, and lastly the development of faster more efficient methods of…

In many situations, human beings have no capability of dominating what they experience in the outside world. Events like accidents or opportunities are beyond individuals’ control and their range of prediction. However, there is a natural demonstrator living in individuals’ brain, determining how individuals perceive the outside world. Besides, the perception varies along with individuals’ experiences, belief, personality, and volition. Charles Siebert, in his essay “An Elephant Crackup?”,…

Opposing to determinism comes the idea of indeterminism, which is the complete opposite. Indeterminism is the idea that rejects both hard and regular determinism saying that not every event has its sufficient natural causes. This idea leaves room for free will that some actions are due to choices that living beings make. This would mean that people re responsible for their actions and are left to make their own thoughts and decisions. Physicist, Werner Heisenberg, created the Heisenberg…

she only met Romeo the day before, it seems she’s moving a bit fast and is making decisions based on sexual desire, rather than being with him for the sake of being together. Likewise, as said in an article by Judith Orloff, “Lust is an altered state of consciousness programmed by the primal urge to procreate. Studies suggest that the brain in this phase is much like a brain on drugs.” (Page 1) The two are acting based on sensual emotion, attraction and impulse, which all happen to be associated…

information becomes littered with false truths, that lead others astray many. We combat each other whether it be verbally or physically to impose such truths, but we remain broken as a whole and while this is happening our lives are being slowly altered [further from the Tao]. Lewis…

We currently live in an advanced post-industrial society that has altered all social values. Media has become a primary socializer that children spend most of their time with, whether it’s a TV or portable tablet. This constant repetition can be related to how the “Brain development is use-dependent: you use it or you lose…

necessary to develop with your patients is because it identifies hidden agendas and recognizes psychosocial issues. Understanding that patients may be in an altered state of consciousness is a great importance. They may be in an unfamiliar environment in which they are no longer in complete control. In addition, they may often fear not knowing the exact state of their health. Preferring bad news to uncertainty, leaving the patient without the means to attempt to control the situation.…

The man exhibits signs of violent trauma in the way he perceives his reality. The symbolic road being traveled, a product of the man’s own consciousness, is littered with violent obstacles. For example, their encounters with other people were rarely pleasant. They even came across a burning baby. “Violence in literature, though, while it is literal, i usually also something else” (Foster 95). In…

to say states is which the executive and the legislative power are separated and that have a representative system– which would mean that all nation-states would have to agree to apply this principle of universal hospitality. Kant argues that it is in the states’ interest to do this as it would guarantee peace. However, in the context of the…