Index

• Achtner, Wolfgang, 29, 125
• Addiction, 16, 22–23, 114
• Alcohol, 12, 14–15, 22, 104, 114
• Amphetamine, 15
• Arstila, Valtteri, 5, 125
• Awakening, 65–68, 70, 114–115
• Ayahuasca, 30, 104, 106
• Ayer, A.J., 120–121

• Baudelaire, Charles, 12, 15
• Benjamin, Walter, 11–14, 16, 19–20, 97
• Bergomi, Claudia, 60, 124
• Bergson, Henri, 19
• Berkovich-Ohana, Aviva, 64, 125
• Blanke, Olaf, 117–119
• Bloch, Ernst, 11, 170n11
• Boredom, iv, 1, 82, 85–88, 153n14

• Caffeine, 16, 36
• Cannabis, 13–15
• Carhart-Harris, Robert, 112, 167n77
• Cioran, E.M., 140n4
• Cocaine, 15, 22–23, 36, 114
• Craig, A. D. (Bud), 83–84, 88, 125

• Dambrun, Michael, 72–73
• Default mode network, 89–90, 99, 112
• de Haan, Sanneke, 99
• De Quincey, Thomas, 20, 24
• Depression, 15, 79, 85–87, 93, 108, 113, 167n79
• Descartes, René, x, 17, 82
• Dittrich, Adolf, 107, 164n66
• Dopamine, 112
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich, 92–93, 115, 157n32
• Dream, xii, 21, 28, 36–37, 121
• Dreaming, x, 36
• Droit-Volet, Sylvie, 147n37

• Eagleman, David, 8–9
• Eccles, John C., 3
• Ecstasy (MDMA), 15, 107
• Embodied, 56, 82, 85
• Embodiment, 56, 82, 99, 152n5
• Epicurus, 43, 141n6
• Epilepsy, 91–92, 95
• Epileptic, 92, 94, 116–117
• Epileptic/ecstatic aura, 92–93

• Fauser, Jörg, 12
• Feinstein, Justin, 125, 127
• Fight-or-flight response, 5
• Floating tank, 61, 126
• Flohr, Hans, 111, 165n70
• Flow, iv, 2, 68, 82, 90–91, 130n1
• Freud, Sigmund, 15, 22, 121
• Fuchs, Thomas, 98–99

• Giersch, Anne, 101–102, 123
• Glutamate, 111, 165n70, 167n77
• Goethe, J. W., 45
• Götz, Karl Otto, 51–52
• Griffiths, Roland, 105
• Grigoryevna, Anna, 92

• Hallucinations, 95, 107, 121
• Hallucinogen, 20–21, 63, 94–95, 104–106, 109, 113–114, 119
• Hallucinogenic, 34, 104
• Han, Byung-Chul, 42
• Handke, Peter, 43
• Hashish, 11–14, 36, 97
• Hasler, Felix, 108, 126, 160n46, 165n70
• Heidegger, Martin, 85–86, 137n50, 138n54, 153n14
• Heim, Albert, 4–5
• Heroin, 21–22
• Hobson, Allan, 121
• Hofmann, Albert, 12, 164n63
• Hölzel, Britta, 89
• Husserl, Edmund, 47, 72
• Huxley, Aldous, 12, 30

• Insula, 83–84, 88, 90, 94, 111
• Insular cortex, 83–84, 88–89, 93–94, 99

• James, William, 81, 90, 136–137, 140–141, 151–152
• Jaspers, Karl, 25, 41–42
• Jünger, Ernst, 12

• Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 54–55
• Kant, Immanuel, 26, 65, 67, 134n32
• Ketamine, 107, 111, 165n70
• Kometer, Michael, 108, 124–125, 167n77
• Kupper, Zeno, 60

• Lange, Carl, 81
• Leary, Timothy, 105
• Lhündrup Borghardt, Tilman (TLB), 65–71, 107, 123, 125, 149n49
• Lilly, John, 12
• Locus coeruleus, 5
• Love, 25, 27–29, 69
• LSD, 12, 20, 63, 95, 104–106, 164n63

• Meditation, 3, 29, 54, 56–59, 62, 64–66, 70–74, 85, 87–90, 93, 118–119, 123–124, 127, 147n37
• Meditative, 24, 26, 29–30, 55, 64, 72, 74, 115
• Meissner, Karin, 62, 124, 147n38
• Meister Eckhart, 24, 29
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 84, 153n10
• Mescaline, 12, 30, 62, 104, 107
• Methamphetamine, 22–23
• Metzinger, Thomas, 69, 119
• Mind wandering, 56–57, 74–75, 82, 89–90, 151n60, 157n30
• Mindful, 54, 59–60, 62, 75, 147n39
• Mindfulness, 54–62, 64–65, 74–75, 88–90, 124, 146–147n36, 151n60
• Minkowski, Eugène, 161–162n50
• Music, 7, 27, 44–45, 47, 50, 115
• Mystical, xiii, 24, 26–27, 29, 63, 66, 94, 104–106, 108, 113–115, 119, 137n47, 140–141n4
• Mysticism, 25, 106

• Nádas, Péter, 31–32, 117
• Nagel, Thomas, 122
• Near-death experience (NDE), 5, 24, 31–35, 37–39, 62, 115, 120, 139
• Nicotine, 22
• Noradrenalin, 5
• Northoff, Georg, 90

• Oceanic boundlessness, 92, 107, 111
• Opium, 12, 20, 24, 36
• Ott, Ulrich, 89, 125
• Out-of-body experience, 117–119

• Paulus, Martin, 23, 125
• Pitigrilli, 12
• Pollatos, Olga, 10, 125
• Pöppel, Ernst, 50, 125, 165n70
• Predictive coding, 48, 143n17
• Proust, Marcel, x–xii
• Psilocybin, 20, 62, 104–114, 164n63, 167n77
• Psychedelic, 114, 164n63
• Psychotic, 21, 99, 105–106, 121, 151n2

• Religion, 25–26, 29
• Religious, 25, 30, 35, 106, 113, 136n45
• Revault d’Allonnes, Gabriel, 77–80, 82–83, 151n2
• Reynolds, Pam, 38, 140n68
• Ricard, Matthieu 73

• Safranski, Rüdiger, 85
• Saint Augustine, 44, 141–142n10
• Schizophrenia, 95–96, 98–100, 103, 105–106, 124
• Schizophrenic, 95–96, 99–103, 158n38, 162n51
• Schmidt, Stefan, 59, 62, 65, 70, 123–125, 149n51
• Schooler, Jonathan W., 75
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, 138n55
• Self
  • core, xi
  • minimal, xi
  • narrative, xi, 46, 49, 90
  • phenomenal, 69
  • physical, xi
• Sensory deprivation, 61
• Serotonin, 111
• Shulgin, Alexander, 12
• Slow-motion effect, 6–8
• Spetzler, Robert 38
• Spiritual, 25–27, 29, 34, 55, 65–66, 105, 114
• Spirituality, 25, 34, 106
• Studerus, Erich, 108

• Tobacco, 114
• Tranströmer, Thomas, x, 3
• Tristan and Isolde, 28–29
• Tschacher, Wolfgang, 60, 124
• Tugendhat, Ernst, 25

• van Lommel, Pim, 33–34, 120
• van Wassenhove, Virginie, 19, 125, 152–153n9
• Visual neglect, 18
• Vollenweider, Franz, 107–109, 124, 164n63, 165n70, 167n77

• Wagner, Richard, 28
• Walach, Harald, 59, 125, 146n35
• Weber, Max, 154n14
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 42, 151n4
• Working memory, 6, 46–49, 57, 84, 89, 99