LSD Marihuana Yoga and Hypnosis

<p>The practice of yoga hypnosis and the use of psychedelic drugs to alter psychological and physiological states is not unknown to the study of psychology. They have been called soft studies and labeled unimportant. This is mostly because they are difficult to study and understand often focusing on unobservable internal states such as altered states of consciousness Samadhi or hypnotic states. This book in its approach to thinking about this topic and method for analysis focuses only on phenomena that can be observed such as behavioral changes.</p><p>By centering on only those aspects of the psychological and physiological effects of yoga hypnosis and psychedelic drugs which can be measured and analyzed using this new method Barber distinguishes this book from others in the field. He asks what overt behaviors and verbal reports are clearly observable when psychedelic drugs are taken yoga is practiced or hypnotic-induction procedures are administered. Instead of treating the phenomena traditionally associated with psychedelic drugs yoga or hypnosis as undifferentiated conglomerates an attempt will be made to set apart and treat separately each of the many phenomena associated with each of these areas of inquiry.</p><p>This book does not set out to simply demonstrate the importance of psychedelics yoga and hypnosis or to present substantive material pertaining to these topics. It also treats each topic as continuous with other known psychological phenomena and as an important piece to the puzzle of social psychology. It differs from most previous treatises in that it does not assume that psychedelics yoga and hypnosis can bring out unused mental or physical capacities in man heighten awareness or give rise to enhanced creativity or produce altered states of consciousness suspension of conventional reality-orientation changes in body-image or changes in perception.</p>