[quote=Marisa;6713]I'm sorry, does "extreme" mean something different to you?
When I use the word "extreme" I am using it in reference to the fact that they are on the very edge of what we know about (or can measure) so in that way they are extreme to me.
Being an nurse and practitioner, I would think that you would understand my concern at the following statement ("...attempts to take me to those extreme states which I must visit...").
You say that Theta can give the same results as the more 'extreme' (what other word suits?) but one is conscious in Theta whereas in my many experiences of sleep paralyses, out of body and hypnogogic phenomena I would have thought that I was in a much deeper brainwave pattern but then I am no expert. I have certainly not been in a light trance and in my lucid dreaming I am fully conscious in a dream environment so that again shows that my physical must be in some way disengaged.
"I was pointing what I questioned about Thompson's work. "
He has been at it for a very long time (30 years) and is world renowned in his field. I knew that he had termed the different states in his own words but those are widely accepted it seems by very many people that was why I was surprised that you had not come across his terms before seeing as you are involved in this field.
I have been experimenting with this kind of thing for 30 years too although not in any depth of academic work. I simply decided many years ago to try to understand what was happening to me and came to my own conclusions. One of which was that we are separated from different realms of being by vibration and that is where brainwaves come in too.
I am well aware that I have not utilised my Proteus in any real way as I am a bit of a technophobe and many of the instructions went over my head. I have, however, experimented with boundary states of consciousness myself and am able to remain alert after my physical body has gone to sleep. I hope I have explained myself better and you can realise that my desire to experiment with the levels of brainwaves that are on the leading edge of what has up till now been able to be measured has a good foundation and not after cheap thrills.
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