Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Poller, Jake

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429592225
• Artikelnr.: 56836195

Autorenporträt

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