The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them.
The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them.
Jake Poller recently contributed a chapter to The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018). His articles have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including Aries, Literature and Theology, D.H. Lawrence Review and the Aldous Huxley Annual.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Jake Poller Mapping the Psyche 1. Writing in the Space Between: Life After Death in the Fiction of Richard Matheson Jennie Chapman 2. Psionic Boom: John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and 'psi-powers' in post-war science fiction Brian Baker 3. Everyday Magic: Surrealism and Parapsychology Gavin Parkinson 4. Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930s kitt price 5. Divining the Distant Past: Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal, and Archaeology Olav Hammer Millennialism 6. Alice A. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Age Tim Rudbøg 7. The Herald of the Christ: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination Jake Poller 8. Prism of Lyra: UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awareness Andrew Fergus Wilson Entheogens 9. Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Reality Christopher Partridge 10. 'The prophetic discernment of what is possible': Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Bergsonian Mysticism 11. Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States: A Historical and Phenomenological Analysis Kevin Fisher 12. 'Damned voice in my head': Jean Rhys and Drunken Consciousness Steven Earnshaw
Introduction Jake Poller Mapping the Psyche 1. Writing in the Space Between: Life After Death in the Fiction of Richard Matheson Jennie Chapman 2. Psionic Boom: John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and 'psi-powers' in post-war science fiction Brian Baker 3. Everyday Magic: Surrealism and Parapsychology Gavin Parkinson 4. Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930s kitt price 5. Divining the Distant Past: Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal, and Archaeology Olav Hammer Millennialism 6. Alice A. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Age Tim Rudbøg 7. The Herald of the Christ: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination Jake Poller 8. Prism of Lyra: UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awareness Andrew Fergus Wilson Entheogens 9. Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Reality Christopher Partridge 10. 'The prophetic discernment of what is possible': Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Bergsonian Mysticism 11. Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States: A Historical and Phenomenological Analysis Kevin Fisher 12. 'Damned voice in my head': Jean Rhys and Drunken Consciousness Steven Earnshaw
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