An altered consciousness is a state of which a person may be
in a trance state, sleeping state or drug induced hallucinogenic state. If an individual
is at this form, they are likely to spend most of their time in the second
stage of sleep by which the person experience sleep spindles or that he or she
is undergoing to a light sleep.
The protestant reformation began as a criticism of the Catholic Church's decadence and views of purgatory as well as many details in scripture. As people began to gain more interest in objects from Biblical history, explorations would become opportunities to discover lost artifacts, points to convert nonbelievers and to feed the thirst for knowledge.