tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211673002367960332.post1466394678104386146..comments2023-09-09T02:41:47.167-07:00Comments on Beyond Advaita: My Experiments On Sensory Deprivation By John LeKayRamesam Vemurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13670447320400400816noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211673002367960332.post-58038126086739444462013-12-21T08:45:21.185-08:002013-12-21T08:45:21.185-08:00Thank you Peter for your time and the kind comment...Thank you Peter for your time and the kind comment.<br /><br />For general information, I am repeating here my Note which I posted on Jan 24, 2013, at John's previous essay:<br /><br />"Neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks in his latest Book "Hallucinations" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, pp: 323 ISBN 978-0-307-40217-2) writes about "sensory deprivation" research studies carried out during the decades of the 50s and 60s in the 2nd Chapter, p: 34-46. Almost all the research carried out showed that the subjects suffered from hallucinations.<br /><br />Dr. Sacks mentions that a 1969 book edited by John Zubek entitled "Sensory Deprivation: Fifteen Years of Research" listed 1300 references. However, the scientific interest in the subject later petered out A 1984 paper pointed out that the hallucinations derived from sensory deprived conditions "can be magnified sometimes to madness, especially when combined with social isolation, sleep deprivation, hunger, thirst, torture, or the threat of death." More recently, Alvaro Pascual-Leone and his colleagues reported on their work on pure visual deprivation. Ten of the 13 subjects experienced hallucinations during the first hours of blindfolding, but always by the second day, whether their eyes remained open or shut behind the blindfolds."Ramesam Vemurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670447320400400816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211673002367960332.post-31721636726984568762013-12-20T11:01:15.567-08:002013-12-20T11:01:15.567-08:00Fascinating description of the experience. Thank ...Fascinating description of the experience. Thank you John and ramesam.Peter Francis Dziubanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397721901055005612noreply@blogger.com