Altered States of Consciousness

Pre-Psychological Approaches   William James and Introspectionism  
Consciousness Anthologies   Classics in Consciousness   Contemporary Contributors

Pre-Psychological Approaches

Henri Ellenberger
        The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970)

Robert C. Fuller
        Americans and the Unconscious (1986)
        Mesmerism & the American Cure of Souls (1982)

William James and Introspectionism

William James
        The Principles of Psychology, Vols. I & II
        The Varieties of Religious Experience

Eugene I. Taylor
        William James on Exceptional Mental States (1984)
        William James on Consciousness Beyond the Margin (1996)

Consciousness Anthologies

Charles S. Tart (Ed)
        Altered States of Consciousness (35 articles) (1969) (1990)

Robert Ornstein (Ed)
        The Nature of Human Consciousness (41 articles) (1973)

John S. White (Ed)
        The Highest State of Consciousness (33 articles) (1972)
        Frontiers of Consciousness (22 articles) (1974)

Benjamin Wolman & Montague Ullman (Eds.)
        Handbook of  States of Consciousness (20 articles) (1986)

Ken Wilbur, Jack Engler, & Dan Brown (Eds)
        Transformations of Consciousness (9 articles) (1986)

Stuart Hameroff, Alfred Kaszniak, & Alwyn Scott (Eds)
        Toward a Science of Consciousness (55 articles) (1996)

Classics in Consciousness

Maurice Bucke
        Cosmic Consciousness

John C. Lilly
        Center of the Cyclone

Contemporary Contributors

Robert Ornstein
        The Mind Field (1978)
        The Evolution of Consciousness (1992)
        The Psychology of Consciousness (1986)

Charles Tart
        States of Consciousness
        Transpersonal Psychology
        Waking Up
        Open Mind, Discriminating Mind

Ken Wilbur
        The Spectrum of Consciousness (1977) (1993)
        Up From Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution (1981)
        No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth (1979)
        The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development (1980)
        Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm (1983) (1996)
        A Brief History of Everything (1996)
        Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution (1995)
        The Essential Ken Wilbur (1998)
        The Eye of the Spirit (1998)
        Integral Psychology (2000)

Arthur J. Deikman
        The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy (1982)

Stanislov Grof
        The Holotropic Mind