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The last 30 years have seen tremendous growth in the theorizing on the nature of consciousness (Baars, 1987, 1988; Fischer, 1971, 1978; Hilgard, 1980; Mandler, 1985; Marsh, 1977; Silverman, 1968; Tart, 1975) and its various altered (Tart, 1969, 1972) or alternate (Zinberg, 1977) states as induced by meditation (Naranjo & Ornstein, 1972; Pekala, 1987), drugs (Harman et al., 1972), hypnosis (Weitzenhoffer, 1978), EEG biofeedback (Brown, 1974), and many other altered state induction procedures (White, 1972). Since consciousness, by definition, is “awareness, especially of something within oneself” (Webster, 1970, p. 177), it would seem that introspection or phenomenological assessment (Battista, 1978) might be a very useful means to map subjective experience.
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Pekala, R.J. (1991). Quantifying the Structures and Patterns of Consciousness. In: Quantifying Consciousness. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0629-8_5
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