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      Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century
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      Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century

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      Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century

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      Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century book

      Edited ByJake Poller
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 12 March 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429061196
      Pages 290
      eBook ISBN 9780429061196
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Language & Literature, Social Sciences
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      Poller, J. (Ed.). (2019). Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429061196

      ABSTRACT

      The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, were cultivated and studied, while older ASCs were given new classifications: out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, psychokinesis, extrasensory perception.  Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century analyses these different approaches and methodologies, and includes exciting new research into neglected areas.

      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 international contributors critically examine a variety of ASCs, including precognition, near-death experiences, telepathy, New Age ‘channelling’, contact with aliens and UFOs, the use of alcohol and entheogens, analysing both the impact of ASCs on the culture and how cultural and technological changes influenced ASCs. The contributors are drawn from the fields of English and American literature, religious studies, Western esotericism, film studies, sociology and history of art, and bring to bear on ASCs their own disciplinary and conceptual perspectives, as well as a broader interdisciplinary knowledge of the subject. The collection represents a vital contribution to the growing body of work on both ASCs and the wider academic engagement with millennialism, entheogens, occulture and the paranormal.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |43 pages

      Introduction

      ByJake Poller

      part |86 pages

      Mapping the Psyche

      chapter 1|17 pages

      Writing in the Space Between

      Life after Death in the Fiction of Richard Matheson
      ByJennie Chapman

      chapter 2|16 pages

      Psionic Boom

      John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and ‘Psi-Powers’ in Post-War Science Fiction
      ByBrian Baker

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Everyday Magic

      Surrealism and Parapsychology
      ByGavin Parkinson

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930s

      Bykitt price

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Divining the Distant Past

      Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal and Archaeology
      ByOlav Hammer

      part |52 pages

      Millennialism

      chapter 6|18 pages

      Alice A. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Age

      ByTim Rudbøg

      chapter 7|18 pages

      The Herald of the Christ

      Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination
      ByJake Poller

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Prism of Lyra

      UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awareness
      ByAndrew Fergus Wilson

      part |66 pages

      Entheogens

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Reality

      ByChristopher Partridge

      chapter 10|16 pages

      ‘The Prophetic Discernment of What Is Possible’

      Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and Bergsonian Mysticism
      ByAlex Pavey

      chapter 11|16 pages

      Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States

      A Historical and Phenomenological Analysis
      ByKevin Fisher

      chapter 12|14 pages

      ‘Damned Voice in My Head’

      Jean Rhys and Drunken Consciousness
      BySteven Earnshaw
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