Beyond the Conscious Mind

Beyond the Conscious Mind
Author: Thomas R. Blakeslee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1489945334

The Nobel Prize-winning work of Roger Sperry revolutionized our understanding of human consciousness by proving that separate thinking and knowledge could exist in the left and right halves of the brain. Now, popular science writer Thomas Blakeslee - author of the highly acclaimed The Right Brain - takes us to a new level of understanding based on the theory of neural Darwinism by Gerald Edelman, another Nobel Prize winner. Blakeslee explains that our neurons spontaneously organize into hundreds of groups called modules that compete to respond to every situation in our lives - from reading this paragraph to falling in love. A vast preponderance of this activity operates outside of our conscious awareness.

Secrets of the Mind

Secrets of the Mind
Author: A.G. Cairns-Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1461215102

Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some of them. The author -- noted Glaswegian chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith -- believes our feelings and sensations are not simply alternative descriptions of neural events but have themselves evolved and have physical effects in the brain as well as physical causes. Secrets of the Mind portrays a vision of the world as it may come to be seen by a future science. Sand, sea water, air, and the atoms from which such materials are made are now well understood by science, but the same can not be said of our personal feelings, our sensations and emotions. Science tells us that these too must be forms of quantum energy if they evolved, yet is only now beginning to explain how.

The Psychology of Consciousness

The Psychology of Consciousness
Author: Robert E. Ornstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1975
Genre: Consciousness
ISBN: 9780224010504

In this revised edition of his revolutionary study, Ornstein reexamines what is known about consciousness today through a consideration of intuition and reason.

The Secrets of Consciousness

The Secrets of Consciousness
Author: Scientific American Editors
Publisher: Scientific American
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1466842598

The Secrets of Consciousness by the Editors of Scientific American Consciousness is an enigmatic beast. It's more than mere awareness – it's how we experience the world, how our subjective experience relates to the objective universe around us. And therein lies the rub, in that tiny little word "how." These kinds of questions were once the province of philosophy, religion or perhaps fantasy, but within the last few decades, neuroscientists have added a scientific voice to the discussion, using available medical technology to explore just what separates so-called "mind" from brain. How do the neural and chemical workings of our brains create our minds, our total experience of the world, our thoughts and feelings, and that sense of self that distinguishes the individual from everyone else? In this eBook, The Secrets of Consciousness, we look at what science has to say about one of humankind's most fundamental, existential mysteries. We begin at the beginning, as they say, with Section 1 on the very nature of consciousness and move on to discuss theories of neural development. In one article, author David Chalmers calls this the "hard problem," requiring an entirely new theory that places consciousness itself as a fundamental component akin to the forces of physics. In another, leading neuroscientists Christof Koch and Susan Greenfield debate exactly how the neurons and circuits in the brain create conscious awareness. Later sections go deeper into the rabbit hole and examine what we can learn from altered states such as hypnosis or anesthesia as well as the use of formerly blacklisted hallucinogens such as LSD as healing drugs. Gary Stix discusses one study on the possible therapeutic effects of LSD on the intense anxiety experienced by patients with life-threatening disease, such as cancer. Finally, Section 6 explores "The Enigma of Spirituality." David Biello takes on the search in his article, "God in the Brain," highlighting studies searching for specific neurological centers of spirituality. It's been said before, but the brain is the final frontier. Just how that brain creates not only awareness, but also integrates that awareness into creating experiences, memories, and an enduring sense of self—well, it might take overhauling not only how we study ourselves, but how we define our reality in the process of looking.

The Secrets of Mind Power: The Secret of Success and Other Essential Works

The Secrets of Mind Power: The Secret of Success and Other Essential Works
Author: William Walker Atkinson
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1250780063

A collection of William Walker Atkinson's classic works on the power of the mind The Secrets of Mind Power: Ten Essential Works is the definitive collection of William Walker Atkinson’s published works. Born in 1862, Atkinson became a pioneer of the New Thought movement and wrote prolifically throughout his lifetime, leaving a vast body of published material after his death in 1932. The Secrets of Mind Power is a treasury of ten of his most powerful and innovative teachings combined in a single volume. The books are included in their entirety and are faithfully reproduced as they were originally published to preserve the impact of Atkinson’s work. The Secrets of Mind Power is part of The Library of Spiritual Wisdom, a beautifully designed series of curated classics written by some of the greatest spiritual teachers of all time. With books covering topics ranging from prosperity and motivation to the occult and metaphysical thought, The Library of Spiritual Wisdom is the definitive collection of texts from some of the most revolutionary thought leaders of the last three centuries and belongs on the shelves of home libraries everywhere.

Consciousness Explained

Consciousness Explained
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 707
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0316439487

Daniel Dennett's "brilliant" exploration of human consciousness — named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times — is a masterpiece beloved by both scientific experts and general readers (New York Times Book Review). Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life — of people, animal, even robots — are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book. "Dennett is a witty and gifted scientific raconteur, and the book is full of fascinating information about humans, animals, and machines. The result is highly digestible and a useful tour of the field." —Wall Street Journal

The Nature of Consciousness

The Nature of Consciousness
Author: Rupert Spira
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1684030021

“I’ve gained deeper understanding listening to Rupert Spira than I have from any other exponent of modern spirituality. Reality is sending us a message we desperately need to hear, and at this moment no messenger surpasses Spira and the transformative words in his essays.” —Deepak Chopra, author of You Are the Universe, Spiritual Solutions, and Super Brain Our world culture is founded on the assumption that the Big Bang gave rise to matter, which in time evolved into the world, into which the body was born, inside which a brain appeared, out of which consciousness at some late stage developed. As a result of this “matter model,” most of us believe that consciousness is a property of the body. We feel that it is “I,” this body, that knows or is aware of the world. We believe and feel that the knowing with which we are aware of our experience is located in and shares the limits and destiny of the body. This is the fundamental presumption of mind and matter that underpins almost all our thoughts and feelings and is expressed in our activities and relationships. The Nature of Consciousness suggests that the matter model has outlived its function and is now destroying the very values it once sought to promote. For many people, the debate as to the ultimate reality of the universe is an academic one, far removed from the concerns and demands of everyday life. After all, life happens independently of our models of it. However, The Nature of Consciousness will clearly show that the materialist paradigm is a philosophy of despair and, as such, the root cause of unhappiness in individuals. It is a philosophy of conflict and, as such, the root cause of hostilities between families, communities, and nations. Far from being abstract and philosophical, its implications touch each one of us directly and intimately. An exploration of the nature of consciousness has the power to reveal the peace and happiness that truly lie at the heart of experience. Our experience never ceases to change, but the knowing element in all experience—consciousness, or what we call “I”—itself never changes. The knowing with which all experience is known is always the same knowing. Being the common, unchanging element in all experience, consciousness does not share the qualities of any particular experience: it is not qualified, conditioned, or limited by experience. The knowing with which a feeling of loneliness or sorrow is known is the same knowing with which the thought of a friend, the sight of a sunset, or the taste of ice cream is known. Just as a screen is never disturbed by the action in a movie, so consciousness is never disturbed by experience; thus it is inherently peaceful. The peace that is inherent in us—indeed that is us—is not dependent on the situations or conditions we find ourselves in. In a series of essays that draw you, through your own direct experience, into an exploration of the nature of this knowing element that each of us calls “I,” The Nature of Consciousness posits that consciousness is the fundamental reality of the apparent duality of mind and matter. It shows that the overlooking or ignoring of this reality is the root cause of the existential unhappiness that pervades and motivates most people’s lives, as well as the wider conflicts that exist between communities and nations. Conversely, the book suggests that the recognition of the fundamental reality of consciousness is the first step in the quest for lasting happiness and the foundation for world peace.

THE SECRETS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

THE SECRETS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Author: Hemant Bhoir (Incorporeal Supreme Father ShivBaba’s knowledge) Magic Diamond of Group (Founder ShivBaba)
Publisher: Authors Tree Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9348104330

We are on the edge of an impending Spiritual – Scientific revolution. This is unlike any other revolution, scientific discovery or an invention in the past. Every revolution, discovery or invention has brought about a shift in the consciousness of humanity. Consciousness is the basis of existence and awareness of existence. This book is an endeavour to unravel the mysteries of human consciousness, a challenging subject and an intersecting point to both science and spirituality. There have always been certain aspects of life and existence that have time and again ignited the human imagination. Even while we believe that we have reached the ultimate, we only come to realize that this could just be the curiosity and that truth lies well beyond the horizon. Nothing can come closer to explain this than the following words of T.S. Eliot “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time…” Amongst many of the open questions in science today, ones that sit right at the top are bewildering the researchers a long time now: Where and how the Human Consciousness originates? Does matter have any Consciousness? Are we coincidentally into existence in this Universe, or is there a steering higher Consciousness? Those armed with scientific materialism would immediately brush aside these questions as either philosophical or something irrelevant for science to answer. They might say that science has employed all its alternatives to these non-physical phenomena and proved them to be non-existing. Since the French philosopher Rene Descartes isolated Science from Spirituality almost four centuries back, it has become a fad to put Spirituality at odds with Science. It has done no good to the scientific community. It has restricted the observation and exploration of science to merely physical matter, something which they themselves consider now as less than five percent of the universe. Note: Instead of the term ‘Religion’ we have invariably used ‘Spirituality’ which is non-affiliated, subtle, broader and with inside-out approach. In the last many centuries, we have looked up only to Material science for development, expansion, mitigation of our problems, and meeting our needs. We have also got solutions to a large extent. However, material science now either seems to be exhausting itself, or it comes with its challenges and even evil. It's time now to shift our paradigm, look inwards and seek the answers from our inner space. It will only help to complement and fill the gaps left by material science. The wisdom of the eastern world has always captivated the attention of scientists, thinkers and philosophers from around the world. It is not just the religious belief; it is a perfect blend of Science and Spirituality - interestingly cited as the Science of Spirituality and the Spirituality of Science. Decoding Human Consciousness is not just a window where science can sneak peek into Spirituality. It is a gateway for humanity to a new dimension where we can evolve from within and seek answers on questions related to our existence and well-being. Interestingly the Conscient entity could not be proved through scientific methods in a laboratory set up. Hence, it is still more challenging to scientifically verify the consciousness originating from this entity. Until one goes beyond the identity of oneself as a physical phenomenon and experiences self as a conscient being, it would be too arduous to use all the scientific apparatus to analyse the continuous stream of consciousness emanating therefrom. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, that too non – physical !! This book is dedicated to unravelling the mysteries of Human Consciousness on Scientific, Psychological and Spiritual realms. Most of the work has come through insights from transcendental experiences that have been further corroborated by research and practice. We have taken into consideration many books, periodicals and research papers. References have been given wherever necessary. Some of the notes taken here are a verbatim copy of the lines from the work of authors while some have been rearticulated. This book is an attempt to recollect, reconnect and re-establish the scientific theories, philosophical postulations in all eras and the ancient wisdom of different scriptures spread across the world, and converge them to unravel the mysteries of consciousness. Much of the mystifying insights with divine wisdom have come from different etheric mediums and divine channels, which has been further substantiated with ancient esoteric knowledge from different origins. The present book is a concise effort to study and establish the knowledge of Consciousness, one of the most sought after mystery. The objective is to make this knowledge as a new gateway for Science to accept and discover hitherto undiscovered metaphysical realms - Spiritual awakening in a scientific way and find solutions to holistic well-being for people from all walks of life. This book is truly an amateur endeavour to reach out to the readers in a rather plain and straightforward style. We leave it to the wisdom of our readers to assess by their own experience. Any questions and suggestions are graciously invited. Magic Diamond of Group

Secrets of the Inner Mind

Secrets of the Inner Mind
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780783510361

Discusses lucid dreaming, sleep, creativity, right- and left-brain processes, altered states of consciousness, hallucinations, deja vu, synesthesia, and neural nets