Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367731625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Jake Poller

Opis

The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. This volume investigates the representation of ASCs in the culture of the twentieth century and　examines the theoretical models that attempt to explain them.

Spis treści

Introduction

Jake Poller

Mapping the Psyche

1. Writing in the Space Between: Life After Death in the Fiction of Richard Matheson

Jennie Chapman

2. Psionic Boom: John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction and ‘psi-powers’ in

post-war science fiction

Brian Baker

3. Everyday Magic: Surrealism and Parapsychology

Gavin Parkinson

4. Precognition as a Problem of Heredity in the 1930s

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5. Divining the Distant Past: Altered Consciousness, the Paranormal, and

Archaeology

Olav Hammer

Millennialism

6. Alice A. Bailey and the Consciousness of the New Age

Tim Rudbøg

7. The Herald of the Christ: Benjamin Creme and the Theosophical Imagination

Jake Poller

8. Prism of Lyra: UFO Consciousness and Portals to Cosmic Awareness

Andrew Fergus Wilson

Entheogens

9. Carlos Castaneda and the Construction of Non-Ordinary Reality

Christopher Partridge

10. ‘The prophetic discernment of what is possible’: Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of

Perception and Bergsonian Mysticism

11. Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States: A Historical and

Phenomenological Analysis

Kevin Fisher

12. ‘Damned voice in my head’: Jean Rhys and Drunken Consciousness

Steven Earnshaw

O autorze

Jake Poller recently contributed a chapter to The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018). His articles have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including Aries, Literature and Theology, D.H. Lawrence Review and the Aldous Huxley Annual.