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| Author | : Steven Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2004-02-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0743258797 |
BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug. In Mind Wide Open, Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I? Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living.
| Author | : Toyin Adekale |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 2021-01-18 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1664152903 |
Our mind is constantly in conversation, or observation. It never stops functioning, which can be overwhelming. Oftentimes your mind is just vacant and waiting to be fed. If you don't do this on purpose it can run wild. You can pick a topic, pick a page and go straight to it. No need to read from the beginning. "My Mind Wide Open" is an interruption to some of our everyday thoughts and challenges you to re-think and change your focus. Is your mind wide open? Then feed it everyday. Direct it. Control it or it will control you. Here is some food for thought. Let the eating begin with some nutrition for your “Mind Wide Open”. Change the way you look at things and things you look at change. This is an easy read. Try a subject a day. Keep negativity at bay. Written by: Toyin Adekale Insert Illustrations: Kelis Dawn Editor: Patrick Walsh
| Author | : Dawna Markova |
| Publisher | : Conari Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1573243647 |
To put it very simply, Dawna Markova is a teacher. A Ph.D. educator, she travels the world working with schools, Fortune 500 companies, and individuals. While coaching people on systems thinking and how to revolutionize the way children are taught, she also teaches people the most important lesson anyone can ever learn -- how to listen to one's own heart and how to live with heart and mind wide open to all life's possibilities. Wide Open is the gift of Dawna's wisdom, wrapped up in gorgeous photos. In thirty luminous lessons and passages, Markova encourages us to learn from our wounds, find our gifts, celebrate our values, and live our dreams -- to live on purpose and with passion. Twenty years ago, Dawna Markova discovered these eternal truths when she faced a life-threatening illness and began a journey of rediscovery. This book follows her path to finding deeper meaning in life. "In a similar way to A Gift from the Sea, the readers of this book are invited to accompany me on a journey to come to know more intimately the value and purpose of their lives."
| Author | : Michael Chorost |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-02-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1439141207 |
What if digital communication felt as real as being touched? This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding of human interaction. Chorost himself has computers in his head that enable him to hear: two cochlear implants. Drawing on that experience, he proposes that our Paleolithic bodies and our Pentium chips could be physically merged, and he explores the technologies that could do it. He visits engineers building wearable computers that allow people to be online every waking moment, and scientists working on implanted chips that would let paralysis victims communicate. Entirely new neural interfaces are being developed that let computers read and alter neural activity in unprecedented detail. But we all know how addictive the Internet is. Chorost explains the addiction: he details the biochemistry of what makes you hunger to touch your iPhone and check your email. He proposes how we could design a mind-to-mind technology that would let us reconnect with our bodies and enhance our relationships. With such technologies, we could achieve a collective consciousness—a World Wide Mind. And it would be humankind’s next evolutionary step. With daring and sensitivity, Chorost writes about how he learned how to enhance his own relationships by attending workshops teaching the power of touch. He learned how to bring technology and communication together to find true love, and his story shows how we can master technology to make ourselves more human rather than less. World Wide Mind offers a new understanding of how we communicate, what we need to connect fully with one another, and how our addiction to email and texting can be countered with technologies that put us—literally—in each other’s minds.
| Author | : Sharon Begley |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2008-11-12 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0307492087 |
Cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to change in response to experience—reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire itself to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and OCD. And as scientists are learning from studies performed on Buddhist monks, it is not only the outside world that can change the brain, so can the mind and, in particular, focused attention through the classic Buddhist practice of mindfulness. With her gift for making science accessible, meaningful, and compelling, science writer Sharon Begley illuminates a profound shift in our understanding of how the brain and the mind interact and takes us to the leading edge of a revolution in what it means to be human. Praise for Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain “There are two great things about this book. One is that it shows us how nothing about our brains is set in stone. The other is that it is written by Sharon Begley, one of the best science writers around. Begley is superb at framing the latest facts within the larger context of the field. This is a terrific book.”—Robert M. Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers “Excellent . . . elegant and lucid prose . . . an open mind here will be rewarded.”—Discover “A strong dose of hope along with a strong does of science and Buddhist thought.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
| Author | : Sandie Freed |
| Publisher | : Chosen Books |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2007-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0800794303 |
This powerful book by a respected prophetic leader explains how to break free from being bound by the past and by actual religious strongholds to embrace the future God has in mind.
| Author | : Michael Pollan |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2019-05-14 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 0735224153 |
Now on Netflix as a 4-part documentary series! “Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.
| Author | : Sandie Freed |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2013-01-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441261311 |
Spiritual Warfare Expert Helps Believers Claim Their Spiritual Inheritance What Christians often forget is that they are royalty--children of the one true King. They are royalty not through works but through Jesus' blood, the blood that bought them, that saved them. And in his blood is their inheritance: eternal life, authority, destiny, wisdom, and more! With a discerning perspective gained from years in spiritual warfare and prophetic ministry, Sandie Freed offers life-transforming advice on how believers can rediscover their spiritual ancestry, awaken to their royal identities, and claim the inheritance God is holding for them.
| Author | : Saundra MD Dalton-Smith |
| Publisher | : Revell |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2021-08-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1493430556 |
Imagine life with unlimited possibility, where fear, misconceptions, and insecurities don't have the power to rob us of our potential or our dreams. In Set Free to Live Free, Saundra Dalton-Smith shows women how to break free from seven mental ties that hold them back, including striving for perfection, comparing themselves to others, all-or-nothing attitudes, and more. Through case studies and inspirational writing, she encourages women to embrace spontaneity, be transparent, nurture their bodies, and cultivate a balanced life.
| Author | : Max Beerbohm |
| Publisher | : Namaskar Book |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2024-02-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Embark on a journey through the wit and wisdom of Max Beerbohm with "And Even Now." In this captivating collection of essays and observations, Beerbohm invites readers into his world of humor, satire, and keen insight into the human condition. As you delve into Beerbohm's prose, prepare to be entertained and enlightened in equal measure. Each essay is a testament to Beerbohm's mastery of language and his ability to capture the essence of his subjects with wit and charm. But beyond the surface of his writing, "And Even Now" offers a window into the cultural and social milieu of the early 20th century. Through his astute observations and clever commentary, Beerbohm sheds light on the absurdities of his time while offering timeless insights into the nature of humanity. Yet, amidst the laughter and insight, a profound question emerges: How will Beerbohm's observations on life, art, and society resonate with readers in the present day? Engage with Beerbohm's essays as you explore the universal themes of love, laughter, and the pursuit of meaning. Whether you're a fan of satire, humor, or simply enjoy thought-provoking writing, "And Even Now" offers something for every reader to savor. Now, as you immerse yourself in "And Even Now," consider this: What pearls of wisdom will you glean from Beerbohm's reflections, and how will they enrich your own understanding of the world? Don't miss the opportunity to experience the brilliance of Max Beerbohm's writing with "And Even Now." Acquire your copy today and embark on a journey of laughter, insight, and intellectual discovery that will leave you thoroughly entertained and enlightened. ```
