Download or read book Waking Up written by Sam Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality.The search for happiness --Religion, East and West --Mindfulness --The truth of suffering --Enlightenment --The mystery of consciousness.The mind divided --Structure and function --Are our minds already split? --Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain --Consciousness is what matters --The riddle of the self.What are we calling "I"? --Consciousness without self --Lost in thought --The challenge of studying the self --Penetrating the illusion --Meditation.Gradual versus sudden realization --Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path --Having no head --The paradox of acceptance --Gurus, death, drugs, and other puzzles.Mind on the brink of death --The spiritual uses of pharmacology.
Download or read book Awake written by Angelo DiLullo, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user's manual for the awakening process.
Download or read book Wake Up Consciousness written by Frank M. Wanderer, Ph.d. and published by KeryBooks. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “YOU ARE AN IMMORTAL BEING, WHO IS LOST IN THE WORLD OF ISOLATION, AND NOW IS DESPERATELY SEARCHING FOR ITSELF.” Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D is a professor of psychology, consciousness researcher and writer, author of several books on consciousness. He is Hungarian, doesn’t speak English well, so his books and articles are translated. His works are published in popular websites as Wake-up World, The Mind Unleashed, Spirit Science, Waking Times, The Mind Journal, Enlightened Consciousnes, Sivana Spirit and so on. With a lifelong interest in the mystery of human existence, Frank helps others to wake up from identification with their own personal history, the illusory world of forms and shapes, and to find their true Self in Consciousness. This book is an anthology, a collection from his most interesting writings, translated from Hungarian. Foreword by Prof. Kriben Pillay
Download or read book Waking Dreaming Being written by Evan Thompson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain. Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we identify with our body, but if we let our mind wander or daydream, we project a mentally imagined self into the remembered past or anticipated future. As we fall asleep, the impression of being a bounded self distinct from the world dissolves, but the self reappears in the dream state. If we have a lucid dream, we no longer identify only with the self within the dream. Our sense of self now includes our dreaming self, the "I" as dreamer. Finally, as we meditate—either in the waking state or in a lucid dream—we can observe whatever images or thoughts arise and how we tend to identify with them as "me." We can also experience sheer awareness itself, distinct from the changing contents that make up our image of the self. Contemplative traditions say that we can learn to let go of the self, so that when we die we can witness its dissolution with equanimity. Thompson weaves together neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative to depict these transformations, adding uncommon depth to life's profound questions. Contemplative experience comes to illuminate scientific findings, and scientific evidence enriches the vast knowledge acquired by contemplatives.
Download or read book Wake Up written by and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were told you were more awake when you were asleep - would you be confused, insulted or curious? Could you accept that you are living life at a semi-conscious level, but could be thriving waking up every day feeling alive, abundant, peaceful and free? Would you take offence to being told that you are not actually living, you are surviving, you are not loving and embracing life but hiding from it? If you feel the truth of these questions then this unusual book is for you. You are being called to take back control of your life, to make peace with your past and look forward to your future. Get ready to be inspired, empowered and stunned by what you already know - you just needed a nudge to remember it.
Download or read book Sizing Up Consciousness written by Marcello Massimini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book clarifies what consciousness is, how it can be generated from a physical system, and how it can be measured. It also shows how conscious states can be expressed mathematically and how precise predictions can be made using data from neurophysiological studies.
Download or read book Waking From Sleep written by Steve Taylor and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of your waking time are you fully awake? On the other hand, how often do you stumble through the day on autopilot, half-asleep and out of contact with yourself, instead of feeling connected and alive? In this astounding book, Steve Taylor suggests that our normal consciousness is really a kind of "sleep" from which we sometimes "wake up" into a more intense and complete reality. He provides what is perhaps the first-ever clear explanation of higher states of consciousness, or "awakening experiences." This work delves into: • the methods we human beings have used throughout history to induce awakening experiences, including meditation, sex, sports, psychedelic drugs, and sleep deprivation • how higher states of consciousness were normal and natural to some of the world’s peoples (and still are, in some cases) • and how we can make "wakefulness" our normal state again. By fully explaining awakening experiences, the author makes them much more accessible, which may lead to a revolution in our psychological development as human beings!
Download or read book Consciousness written by Susan Blackmore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness, the last great mystery for science, remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, whilst also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book Lucid Waking written by Georg Feuerstein and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to bring an intense awareness to the business of living, meeting the challenges of existence sanely, creatively, and philosophically.
Download or read book Wake up to Your Higher Self written by Morris J. Cohen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a source of consciousness and power known as mindful energy, which is available to everyone. Simply, the choice to learn and use it is yours, Wake Up Now and Enjoy Life! guides the reader in his or her quest for peace of mind and the power to create lifes experience through meditation, education, and choice informed by mindful energy. We are all asleep when it comes to choosing to act and choosing to experience our emotions. Habitual mental programs, personal and cultural, direct most of our actions and emotions. These programs are hidden from our consciousness and control our thoughts. We can learn to recognize them. When reality does not coincide with the programs of our mind, we suffer. We can become masters of our experience or remain slaves to our thoughts. This book leads you through all the elements that create our experience of life: consciousness, experience, thought, programs and programming, meditation, and dual tracking. Dual tracking is a process used to direct your thoughts from your true selfmindful energy. You can be in touch with a sense of knowing beyond the rational mind and discover your true self, the force that will direct your thoughts to reach new levels of peace of mind, harmony, self-confidence, fulfillment in relationships, creativity, business success, understanding, positive thinking, and enhanced physical health. Wake Up Now and Enjoy Life! provides a detailed systematic guide to wake up, observe, and choose the action and experience of conscious living. Now is the time to enjoy your life.
Download or read book Universal Consciousness written by Gina Tabojorn Gustafsson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty of our societies worldwide Can we be One at last? As man is waking up out of his state of illusion to include even the lowliest among us, may we be blessed away from our indifference and into the waiting arms of love itself to all it matters at present. Harmony and Oneness permeates the theme so as to assist humanity to a spiritual awakening as such assistance is needed in our day and time. Love be of One.
Download or read book Waking Up written by Charles T. Tart and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Gurdjieff's notion that most people are automatons controlled by mechanical habits of thought, perception and behavior.
Download or read book Get Conscious written by Dr. Risha Joshi and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these modern times when technological and intellectual advancements are at an all time high, symptoms of disconnection are also following suit. The lack of connection we have between our Mind, Body, Spirit impacts how we perceive ourselves, impacts our relationships, our health, the quality of our lives, our success levels, our wellness and our levels of happiness and joy. Unless we understand the role of the Mind and learn how to master it, it can steer us in the direction of chronic fear based emotion on subtler and grand scales, leading to suffering. The good news is that in order to positively impact our lives we need to deeply understand that our psychological make up is reflected in our external environment and that we are CREATORS who have the choice to change that. This book aims to bridge the gap between you and the deepest parts of you, to guide you towards your greatest, most loving relationship – the one that you have with yourself.
Download or read book Waking from Sleep written by Steve Taylor and published by Hay House UK Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often do you stumble through the day on auto-pilot, half asleep and out of contact with yourself, instead of feeling connected and alive? In this astounding book, Steve Taylor suggests that our normal consciousness is really a kind of 'sleep' from which we sometimes 'wake up', into a more intense and complete reality.
Download or read book Being You written by Anil Seth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Best Book of 2021—Bloomberg Businessweek; A Best Science Book of 2021—The Guardian; A Best Science Book of 2021—Financial Times; A Best Philosophy Book of 2021—Five Books; A Best Book of 2021—The Economist Anil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science. What does it mean to “be you”—that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the nature of consciousness to be a primarily spiritual or philosophical inquiry, but scientific research is now mapping out compelling biological theories and explanations for consciousness and selfhood. Now, internationally renowned neuroscience professor, researcher, and author Anil Seth is offers a window into our consciousness in BEING YOU: A New Science of Consciousness. Anil Seth is both a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness and one of most prominent spokespeople for this relatively new field of science. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness. Seth has been interviewed for documentaries aired on the BBC, Netflix, and Amazon and podcasts by Sam Harris, Russell Brand, and Chris Anderson, and his 2017 TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 11 million times, a testament to his uncanny ability to make unimaginably complex science accessible and entertaining.
Download or read book A Day in the Life of the Brain written by Susan Greenfield and published by Allen Lane. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that we can never share directly with anyone else. But how does a tangle of brain cells conjure up this experience? Despite the remarkable progress that has been made in understanding the brain, consciousness still poses one of the greatest challenges to science. In this groundbreaking book, world-renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield illuminates the mystery of consciousness as she traces a single day in the life of the brain - from being awoken by an alarm to walking the dog, working in an open plan office to dreaming. Greenfield concludes that the answer to the enigma of consciousness may be found in neuronal assemblies - a process that her Oxford lab, along with others around the world, is investigating. Drawing on this pioneering research and on diverse findings from physics, philosophy and psychology, A Day in the Life of the Braingives us a bold new way of understanding who we are."
Download or read book Awakening to Race written by Jack Turner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original reconstruction of democratic individualism in American thought. All these thinkers, he shows, held that personal responsibility entails a refusal to be complicit in injustice and a duty to combat the conditions and structures that support it. At a time when individualism is invoked as a reason for inaction, Turner makes the individualist tradition the basis of a bold and impassioned case for race consciousness—consciousness of the ways that race continues to constrain opportunity in America. Turner’s “new individualism” becomes the grounds for concerted public action against racial injustice.
