ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the author’s 20-year-long research exploring psychologically induced altered states of consciousness through various meditation, artistic and scientific practices. After marking the initial altered states of consciousness experience that started the research, the chapter outlines his early stage experiments with poetry, painting, meditation and electronic music which he used to help express or relive the initial experience. Then, the chapter outlines three projects developing brain–computer music interfacing systems, with an emphasis on how the last one employed auditory rhythmic entrainment and neurofeedback training to help induce and maintain a specific altered state, the shamanic state of consciousness.
