Altered states of awareness / with introductions by Timothy J. Teyler.

San Francisco, CA : W.H. Freeman and Company, [1972]

140 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 29 cm.

Brain and awareness -- Introduction -- The electrical activity of the brain / W. Grey Walter -- The analysis of brain waves / Mary A.B. Brazier -- The reticular formation / J.D. French -- The physiology of imagination / John C. Eccles -- Altered states of awareness : internal control -- Introduction -- Patterns of dreaming / Nathaniel Kleitman -- The states of sleep / Michel Jouvet -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- On telling left from right / Michael C. Corballis and Ivan L. Beale -- Learning in the autonomic nervous system / Leo V. Dicara -- Altered states of awareness : external control -- Introduction -- Marihuana / Lester Grinspoon -- The hallucinogenic drugs / Frank Barron, Murray Jarvik, and Sterling Bunnell, Jr. -- Experiments with goggles / Ivo Kohler -- The split brain in man / Michael S. Gazzaniga -- The physiology of meditation / Robert Keith Wallace and Herbert Benson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135).