Altered States of Bodily Consciousness

Altering Consciousness Multidisciplinary Perspectives: History, Culture, and the Humanities, Volume 1: Biological and Psychological Perspectives: Volume 2

Volumn 1-2, Issue , 2011, Pages 237-262

  Dieguez, Sebastian ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Ecole Polytechnique Federade de Lausanne   (France)

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