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A cognitive shift (not to be confused with cognitive-shifting, a general therapy/meditation term) is a psychological phenomenon most often experienced by individuals using psychedelic drugs, or suffering from mental disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depressive syndrome). During a cognitive shift, one experiences an algorithmic change in how their conscious mind and unconscious mind communicate with each other. The result can be a wide range of feelings, from euphoria to panic. Cognitive-shifting is a descriptive term identifying a specific mental process, emerging from perceptual and cognitive psychology, and also from business-oriented awareness-management programs - with an ancient boost from mindfulness meditative methodology. ...
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Manic depression, with its two principal sub-types, bipolar disorder and major depression, was first clinically described near the end of the 19th century by psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, who published his account of the disease in his Textbook of Psychiatry. ...
Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ...
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A cognitive shift can occur with or without the aid of an externally ingested psychoactive substance such as LSD, MDMA, peyote, or other psychoactive drugs. Religious mystic experience is often described as a sudden shift from one cognitive function or another, for instance in the writings of William James. A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical that alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness, or behaviour. ...
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called LSD, LSD-25, or acid. ...
ecstasy and religious ecstasy MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being. ...
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For other people named William James see William James (disambiguation) William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. ...
Traditional Psychology Cognitive shift (in the development of psychology) is also a term that relates to the understanding that thoughts (i.e. cognitions) play a key role in a person's emotional state and actions (behaviour). Previously it was theorised i.e. by earlier behavioural psychologists that individuals were empty vessels and by simply being repeatedly exposed and/or rewarded in relation to certain things (such as in rote learning of times tables)new experiences would be created.
The cognitive shift however, demonstrated that thoughts also play an integral process. A key experiment placed a rat in a circular maze and after rotating the maze the rat was able to use pointers around the room in order to find a food reward. This suggested that the rat had used internal cognitions in order to influence its behaviour to gain a reward.
Also the fact that children, when learning a language, often and quite suddenly begin to apply rules they have learnt to new phrases such as by saying "I've drinken all my drink" after learning "I've eaten all my food". This is usually without being taught these rules first and as such demonstrate a key role of cognitions in terms of learning.
Psychedelic Phenomenon With the ingestion of psychedelics people often experience sudden shifts in cognitive association and emotive content. The experience can shift rapidly from negtive to euphoric, and in certain cases mimic the schizophrenic condition, as researched by Humphry Osmond and others. Hypnosis has proven very effective in generating predictable cognitive shifts with LSD and mescaline. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Humphry Fortescue Osmond (July 1, 1917 - February 6, 2004) was a British psychiatrist, known for coining the word psychedelic and for his groundbreaking research in using psychedelic drugs in medical research. ...
Native American Usage The term has also been used to refer psychologically to the Yaqui Indian sorcerer experience of 'a shift in the assemblage point' described by Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings Of Don Juan etc. In general, brujo sorcerer trances often are designed to induce cognitive shifts into more mystic qualities of consciousness. Carlos Castaneda (spelled Castañeda in Spanish) (December 25, 1925 (?) – April 27, 1998) was the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism, which he referred to as a form of sorcery. ...
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