Anomalous Experiences

Cardeña, Etzel

doi:10.1002/9781119132363.ch13

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“…This makes the dichotomous classification of normality vs. pathology inappropriate and calls for admitting a large grey area of neither ordinary (viz., "normal") nor dysfunctional phenomena, the definition of which closely depends on the adopted Weltanschauung (view of the world) and Zeitgeist (spirit of times). They have been named in different ways, i.e., altered states of consciousness (ASCs), anomalous experiences (AEs), Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs) and non-ordinary mental expressions (NOMEs), by different authors belonging to medicine, psychology and transpersonal psychology (Cardeña, Lynn J., andKrippner 2014, 2004;Palmer and Hastings 2013;Ludwig 1966;Facco, Agrillo, and Greyson 2015). ASCs have been faced from a strictly neurophysiological and psychobiological perspective in medicine (Boveroux et al, 2008;Vaitl et al, 2005), mainly conceiving them as a dysfunctional or anyway less-than-normal phenomena, thus skipping their psychological, cultural and existential implications.…”

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On the nature and role of Consciousness: is it time to move towards a metaphilosophical and metascientific approach?

Facco¹,

Fracas²,

Tagliagambe³

et al. 2021

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The main aim of this paper is to support a metaphilosophical and metascientific approach to the study of Consciousness.After a brief historical resume of the debate between the mind-brain-body relationship, we discuss how the apparently irreducible contention between a physicalist and an anti-physicalist interpretation of Consciousness can be overcome by a metaphilosophic and metascientific approach in the attempt to overcome ethnocentric cultural filters and constraints yielded by the Weltanschauung and the Zeitgeist one belongs to. IN fact, a metaphilosophical perspective can help to recognize key concepts and meanings common to different philosophies beyond their formal differences and different modes of theorization, where the common field of reflection is aimed to find the problem’s unity in the multiplicity of forms. Likewise, the metascientific approach, such as the anthropic principle adopted in astrophysics, helps overcoming the problems of indecidability of single axiomatic disciplines.A metaphilosophical and metascientific approach seems appropriate in the study of consciousness and subjective phenomena, since the first-person perspective and the meaning of the experience are the condition sine qua non for their proper understanding.

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