VOLUNTARY CONTROL OF INTERNAL STATES : PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL 1

The first part of this article is a summary of a technological paper presented at the 1969 International Congress of Cybernetics (Green, Green, and Walters, 1970) and is included in order to explain the elcctrophysiological instrumentation and the methodological developments that make possible an instrumented transpersonal research project, psychophysiological training tor creativity, which is a primary aim of our work.

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