The phrase "alternate state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a different condition or situation that is distinct from the current one.
Example: "In an alternate state of consciousness, individuals may experience heightened awareness or altered perceptions."
Alternatives: "alternative condition" or "different state".
Deglobalisation is the alternate state where trade grows less than GDP.
The loss of keystones tips the ecosystem into a critical transition – the point at which a system shifts into an alternate state which in lakes is dominated by smothering algae and absence of many plant and animal species.
The state variable of the master system synchronizes with an alternate state variable of the slave system.
This bifurcation results in the disappearance of a pair of steady states, forcing the system to move to an alternate state resulting in a qualitative change in system dynamics.
Like a fine wine, he's just gotten better; like a consummate showman he's learned how to work his audience into an alternate state of excitement and bliss.
Not often does a novel so expertly seduce its readers into an alternate state of consciousness that it mimics an actual dream state, where everything solid is hazily just beyond reach.
Practices that laypeople witness in nonmystical states are conducted in alternate states of consciousness by these professional ecstatics.
To resolve the problem of definition, scholars of comparative mysticism have opted for inclusive approaches that discuss religious uses of alternate states of consciousness without further qualifications.
Mysticism, the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.
Since then, some scholars have rejected the category of mysticism as a fiction, while others have enlarged it to encompass all religious uses of alternate states of consciousness.
Others are still less secretive, withholding, for example, only a certain technique by which alternate states of consciousness are attained, such as a doctrine, a chant, or a spiritual name.
