Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Explicit Knowledge, Vacuum Cleaner, Waterspout

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

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An example of altered consciousness: terence mckenna. Sitting by a river at la chorrera in the amazon. Notices a mist that split into two parts, and then again, at which point he was looking at four lens shaped clouds of the same size lying in a row and then they merged together again. The clouds then grew darker, swirled together and formed what appeared to be a waterspout. Then everything seemed to sped up and the clouds formed a saucer-shaped machine, rotating slowly, with soft blue and orange lights. It then passed overhead and out of sight. It was identical in appearance to the ufo in an infamous photograph widely assumed to be a picture of a vacuum cleaner end-cap. This occurred after weeks of ingesting psychedelic drugs: hallucinations perceptions that do not correspond to physical reality. Perspectives on consciousness: there are three perspectives from which consciousness can be approached, physiological.