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The MA in Consciousness and Transformative Studies in Integral Studies Department is a 68-unit interdisciplinary program that offers an integrated, multi-faceted approach to the exploration of consciousness, the unfolding of human potential and the implementation of new paradigm thinking. This holistic curriculum integrates five major fields of study: philosophy, psychology, spirituality, ecology, and the new science.
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The Center for Consciousness Studies would like to facilitate a dialogue in an international community of scholars, students and researchers. This dialogue will be characterized by openness, mutual respect, inclusiveness, and rigor.
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Consciousness Studies can be of great benefit to teachers, artists, scientists, therapists, and those concerned with ecology and protection of the earth. Working in a daily rhythm of inner work, scientific exploration, and artistic activities gives the student powerful tools for self-transformation.
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Several studies point to common mechanisms in different clinical conditions that lead to loss of consciousness. Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition in which an individual loses the higher cerebral powers of the brain, but maintains sleep-wake cycles with full or partial autonomic functions. Studies comparing PVS with healthy, awake subjects consistently demonstrate an impaired connectivity between the deeper (brainstem and thalamic) and the upper (cortical) areas of the brain. In addition, it is agreed that the general brain activity in the cortex is lower in the PVS state. Some electroneurobiological interpretations of consciousness characterize this loss of consciousness as a loss of the ability to resolve time (similar to playing an old phonographic record at very slow or very rapid speed), along a continuum that starts with inattention, continues on sleep, and arrives to coma and death.
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It is difficult to prove the complete absence of consciousness in state studies. Sleep can vary in arousability from moment to moment, much like vegetative (comatose) states and even general anesthesia. Some mentation is reported even from slow-wave sleep, and some waking-like functions can be preserved in rare brain damage patients who seem behaviorally unconscious. For most purposes... an absolute, stable zero point of consciousness is not needed. There is no question that deep sleep is much less conscious than full, responsive waking.
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