A New Classification of the Modified States of Consciousness

A New Classification of the Modified States of Consciousness. A basic understanding of the different states and stages of the consciousness and its psychological and neural correlates, is of major importance for all scientists, clinicians, psychologists and philosophers. Today clinical hypnosis and traditional oriental philosophy attract the growing interest of occidental scientists. Consciousness poses the most enigmatic problems in the science of the mind. This work presents a new classification of the neurophysiological states of consciousness. It is not only a review of the neurosciences and neuropsychological foundations of consciousness, sleep phenomena, awareness, hypnosis stages and meditative stages; it provides a new model of the current scientific studies and definitions. This new theory is based on a new perspective to consider the modified states of consciousness as different states of attention and concentration. The purpose of the present new classification, is to focus on the relationship between concentration, hypnosis, meditative stages and awareness.