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Psychology and Psychotechnics
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Gurevich, P. S. Unusual States of Psychic

Abstract: The term ‘changed forms of conscience’ was first introduced by an American psychologist William James over a hundred of years ago. Describing various forms of achieving changed states of mind (shamanism, acting, religious practices and so on), the author underlines that these forms of mind allow a man to go beyond his own identity. It is admitted that there are no grounds for considering such forms of mind to be pathological


Keywords:

psychology, philosophy, psyche, changed forms of conscience, mystery, catharsis, religion


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