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Mind_Body_Healing_Frontier

The scientific investigation of mind-body interactions has progressed from fringe speculation to a major research domain supported by institutional infrastructure (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

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INTERDOC_37 — Consciousness, Entity Contact, and the Contact Nexus

[KEY FINDING] Entity encounters are reported through at least seven independent consciousness-alteration pathways: (1) Psychedelics — DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, iboga, 5-MeO-DMT, mescaline; (2) Meditation — deep jhāna s

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T_1_03 Psychology & Social

T_1_03 — Transpersonal Psychology — Beyond the Personal Self

Transpersonal psychology extends psychological inquiry beyond the individual ego to encompass states of consciousness, spirituality, and experiences transcending ordinary personal identity. Emerging in the late 1960s fro

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Y_5_12 Speculative Altered States

Y_5_12 — Dark Retreat: Extended Light Deprivation and Endogenous Visionary States

The dark retreat (yangti nagpo or mun mtshams in Tibetan) is an advanced contemplative practice — primarily within the Dzogchen (Great Perfection) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and the closely related Bön tradition — in

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Y_3_15 Credible Altered States

Y_3_15 — Pilgrimage as Altered State: Walking, Devotion, and Transformation

Pilgrimage — the deliberate journey to a sacred place as an act of devotion, penance, healing, or spiritual seeking — is one of humanity's most ancient and universal practices for inducing transformative altered states t

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Y_3_05 Altered States

Y_3_05 — Contemplative Neuroscience

Contemplative neuroscience — the scientific study of meditation, contemplative practices, and their effects on brain, body, and behavior — has matured from a fringe topic into a rigorous interdisciplinary field over the

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Y_3_09 Altered States

Y_3_09 — Prayer, Contemplation, and the Neuroscience of Religious Experience

The neuroscientific study of prayer and religious experience — sometimes termed neurotheology (d'Aquili & Newberg, 1999) — has moved from philosophical speculation to empirical investigation using neuroimaging, EEG, and

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Y_3_00 Altered States

Y_3_00 — Meditation Contemplative: Subfolder Summary

Y_3_14 Credible Altered States

Y_3_14 — Chanting and Repetitive Vocalization: Sonic Pathways to Trance

Chanting and repetitive vocalization — the sustained production of rhythmic, patterned vocal sounds — is arguably the most ancient and universal method of inducing altered states of consciousness through acoustic means.

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