Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index.
The systems approach to states of consciousness -- The components of consciousness: awareness, energy, structures -- Conservative and radical views of the mind -- The nature of ordinary consciousness -- Discrete states of consciousness -- Stabilization of a state of consciousness -- Induction of altered states: going to sleep, hypnosis, meditation -- Subsystems -- Individual differences -- Using drugs to induce altered states -- Observation of internal states -- Identity states -- Strategies in using the systems approach -- The depth dimension of a state of consciousness -- State-specific communication -- State-specific sciences -- Higher states of consciouness -- As above, so below: five basic principles underlying physics and psychology -- Ordinary consciousness as a state of illusion -- Ways out of illusion.