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Magick Matters
"Probably more than at any other time in history, there is today a preoccupation with personal relationships, subjective reality, and inner experience. We are discovering that as well as an external world, we have access to internal realities — states of mind which transcend our waking consciousness and can provide a rich source of meaningful experience and potential.
These are the altered states of consciousness (ASCs) we know as dream states, trance states, psychedelic experiences, and meditation, which can give a new perspective to our relationship with the world around us, a perspective which may sometimes include knowledge derived by extrasensory perception (ESP). With the passing of the behaviorist era in experimental psychology, two...>>
"This classic book is the first major serious treatment of the subject of human consciousness. Charles Tart, psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, has collected articles from a wide range of sources to show the broad scientific dimensions of this once-taboo subject. The book covers the effects of drugs, yoga, self-hypnosis, mutual hypnosis, meditation, brain wave feedback, and dream consciousness.
The study of consciousness has only recently "come of age" in western psychology. As the editor points out in his introduction, "Many primitive peoples believe that almost every normal adult who cannot do this is a psychological cripple. How different Americans would seem to a person from such a culture."
This book combines...>>