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 Dr.
Stanislav Grof, M.D.,
is a psychiatrist and one of the leading researchers
into non-ordinary states of consciousness. In Tom
Harpur's NDE documentary entitled
Life After Death,
Grof explains a theory of consciousness based on
these non-ordinary states. It assumes that consciousness
may not even be localized in the skull at all. The
brain functions as a "reducing valve"
which reduces the cosmic energy and input that bombards
our skull. Our conscious mind may be a product of
this reducing function of the brain. When the reducing
function is altered (through various triggers such
as drugs, psychosis, psychic ability, etc.) or even
shut down completely (producing a NDE), the cosmic
energy and input that once made up our consciousness
is then free to expand. This expansion is what explains
these various types of mental visions. This theory
allows for many appropriate triggers which could
alter this reducing function of the brain. From
the large collection of NDEs I have collected, I
have found the following triggers where are capable
of doing just that.
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