Am I Dreaming? Quotes

“Charisma and people’s prior beliefs about their powers are key: if you’re told that someone is renowned the world over for their abilities as a hypnotist or spiritual healer, your brain will be more likely to surrender executive control to them.”
― James Kingsland, Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain

“According to the leading theory of how we develop and maintain our cognitive models of the world, known as ‘prediction error processing’, the streamlining that underpins the restorative powers of altered states can only occur after entire levels of the brain’s processing hierarchy have been taken offline.”
― James Kingsland, Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain