Self-Transcendence Correlates with Brain Function Impairment.
A broad pattern of correlations between mechanisms of brain function impairment and self-transcendence is shown. The pattern includes such mechanisms as cerebral hypoxia, physiological stress, transcranial magnetic stimulation, trance-induced physiological effects, the action of psychoactive substan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Cognition & Neuroethics Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 34 - 43 |
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Journal of Cognition & Neuroethics
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