Now we have proof via DNA and chemical analyses that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared potion, to ...

For those not familiar with the physiological and neurochemical changes during sleep, he provides a valuable review, although his treatment of other states of consciousness is more limited.

But can you enter altered states of consciousness without drugs? “Psychonaut” was a term invented in the 1960s to encompass anyone who was interested in making a journey into their psyche ...

Trance and possession disorder is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by altered states of consciousness. In a trance ...

A lucid dream is one in which you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming and can often control what happens. If you can ...

Two thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians were sipping mugs of a potion that caused them to enter an altered state of consciousness, in hopes of divine connection and healing. Archeologists made ...

Psychedelic drugs have been a source of fascination to those trying to understand altered states of consciousness and perception. The term 'psychedelic' was coined by Humphrey Osmond from Greek ...

This altered state of consciousness is a bit like what a group of researchers sought to study in a recent paper published Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience, which peered into the brain's ...

The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the sixth annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to b ...

Psychedelics are a type of substance that induces an altered state of consciousness. Examples of psychedelics include LSD, psilocybin and DMT. These substances have been used by humans for centuries ...