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Abstract:
My thesis lies in the title of my talk and its implied
dialectic. We begin with a mutual problem shared by both
transpersonal and cognitive science approaches to consciousness:
their need of each other.
On the one hand, on the cognitive science side, our so called
conscious awareness system that synthesizes and directs
experience is curiously transparent and impalpable-more to be
looked through than at, and lacking in the empirical features
needed for empirical science. Enter the detailed phenomenologies
of altered and transpersonal and meditative states. These show
consciousness to be something that can undergo specific
transformations and development.
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