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    Clairsentience Definition

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    someone is speaking. A song may be heard playing that will be relevant to that person at the right time. It is said that clairaudience is most often experienced in dreams or in altered state of consciousness. Clairsentience- means clear sensing, the ability to feel the present tense and future physical and emotional states of others. A person may sense or feel someone they have an attachment to. Empathy can be another example. A clairsentience may actually feel how the other person is feeling.…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Dualist Theory

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    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, because we all have unique souls, we are different. Some of the objections I see are: we cannot see the soul so we do not, currently, have a way to quantifiably state that the soul itself exists, there is no way to determine ‘sameness of…

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    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…

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    Hypnosis is temporary state of conscious, similar to sleep, in which involves focused attention to concentration and a heightened awareness to suggestibility. Hypnosis can actually distort forgotten memories. Hypnotically refreshed memories are typically guesses from people or reported memories patients were unsure of. This is especially dangerous in eyewitness cases in which victims are prone to accidentally accusing the wrong person for the crime. In the reading, it states that hypnosis can…

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    The Near Death Experience

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    The near death experience was first defined to be a spur of consciousness leading to an altered-reality experience on random individuals who reach the state of clinical death by a lack of oxygen to the brain that implies complete unconsciousness on those individuals (Khanna & Greyson, 2014, p. 1605). Near death experience recounts highlight similarities among those who experience them. Characteristics such as out of body experiences, diving into darkness to then transport into a light-filled…

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    43). According to James, one must enter an altered state of consciousness in order to have a religious experience. This altered state of consciousness is different for each individual that experiences it, but it also has four distinct qualities that remain constant for each individual experience. These qualities are ineffability, passivity, a noetic…

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    the idea, that consciousness is not separate from the body and introduces consciousness from an evolutionary perspective; presenting evidence of what we think is consciousness can actually be narrowed down to a set of biological processes. Damasio explains that the purpose of Self Comes to Mind, is because the previous scientific research he has undertaken is no longer a sufficient explanation of consciousness,…

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    by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it—it being impossible for anyone to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.” (Ariew & Watkins, 2009, p.370) Locke writes that a person identity or his ability to remain the same person does not need to consist of remaining the same substance, either physical or mental as Descartes’ theory had described. Personal identity according to Locke only has to do with a person’s consciousness. He…

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