Why would you think this? My own study of a wide spectrum of religious, spiritual, and occult experience suggests to me that shifts in consciousness are at the root of all non-ordinary experience. To be perfectly sober does not mean one’s state of consciousness isn’t shifting around. In the course of an ordinary day we all move continually back and forth between beta and alpha states of consciousness, and seldom even notice. Watching TV for example is a primarily alpha state activity. When we’re bored at work, we likely shift into theta and Delta dreaming states, too, staring into those monotonous Excel spreadsheets full of numbers. My point is that just because something requires a brain state shift in order to be perceived does not mean that something is not real. That shows a huge, and I would say wholly baseless and unwarranted, prejudice toward labeling only what we experience in the Beta state to be real. What proof is there of that? And if that’s the case, why do the other states of consciousness exist?
