Classification of mental phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment (with remarks on the phenomenon of altered states of consciousness)

In recent years mystical ideas have been spreading concerning "altered states of consciousness" as "new dimensions of experience and transpersonal communication". An analysis is given of the class-conditioned character of these concepts deriving from the insecure social condition...

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Published in:Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie, 1975-11, Vol.27 (11), p.660-667
Main Author: Pickenhain, L
Format: Article
Language:ger
Subjects:
Brain - physiology
Consciousness
Environment
Humans
Mental Processes - physiology
Politics
Psychology, Social
Psychopharmacology
Psychophysiology
Social Conditions
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Summary:In recent years mystical ideas have been spreading concerning "altered states of consciousness" as "new dimensions of experience and transpersonal communication". An analysis is given of the class-conditioned character of these concepts deriving from the insecure social conditions existing under moribund imperialism. This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment. Psychic phenomena are interpreted not as epiphenomena but as an expression of the new quality attained in the evolution of man as a social being in the central control of all functions of man's organism.
ISSN:0033-2739