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 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 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 The Case Against Reality Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes written by Donald Hoffman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.
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 I Am a Strange Loop written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
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 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 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 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 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 188 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 Dream Consciousness What Happens to Consciousness During Sleep written by Jack Tanner and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You come to a fork in the road. On the right is the path to the world created by all minds. This is the objective world, the public world. On the left is the path to the world created by your own mind, your own unconscious. This is your dream world, your private world. Your dream world changes every time you go sleep. There is no continuity of space and time. The objective world, by contrast, stays the same every time you wake up. There is complete continuity of space and time. That's the difference between an objective, public experience and a subjective, private experience. Your consciousness is designed for facing the public world. It becomes drastically disoriented when it faces the private world. Yet it also has the chance to do something astounding – to enter and probe your own mind and discover all of its greatest and deepest secrets. How else will you know yourself if you don't know your own mind? Only dreams can take you there. It's time to delve into the mysteries and extraordinary powers of dreams.
Download or read book Awakening Consciousness written by Lindsay S Godfree and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting from a deep depression to a spiritual awakening experience and seeing Divinity everywhere is not something that anyone expects or that someone sets off to accomplish. But that is what happened to Lindsay as she does everything she can think of to feel better. It is quite an amazing journey of discovery. While this type of spiritual experience is not exactly main stream, she has been able to make sense out of her life story and connect with people who seem to have had similar experiences. To those who are awakening to an expanded version of self, Lindsay wants to say, “You are not alone. Everyone is waking up into greater consciousness and eventually to experience Oneness.” For those who are trying to make sense of this epic shift in consciousness that is happening through us—Lindsay offers some insight and choices. The message she wants to share from experiencing God or Cosmic Consciousness is this; “I want everyone to know that everything that happens is perfect. We are perfect and loved just the way we are. There is nothing that you need ever fear, because you are loved beyond anything that you can imagine. You are one with that love and all that is.”
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 Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations written by Jules Evans and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today. He interviewed soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, and anarchists and discovered the ways that people are using philosophy now to build better lives. Ancient philosophy has inspired modern communities — Socratic cafés, Stoic armies, Epicurean communes — and even whole nations in the quest for the good life. This book is an invitation to a dream school with a rowdy faculty that includes twelve of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons on happiness, resilience, and much more. Lively and inspiring, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.
Download or read book Making Contact written by Alan Steinfeld and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel it is one of the best approaches I have found to grasp the most jarring enigma humanity has ever faced." —George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM “We cannot separate the earth from its greater cosmic environment. What is needed is a new story and Alan Steinfeld’s Making Contact is part of that story.” —Deepak Chopra, Author, Total Meditation How can we prepare for an event that is literally beyond anything humanity has ever faced? Making Contact presents multiple perspectives on what no longer can be denied: UFOs and their occupants are visiting our world. The book answers questions which remain in the wake of the recent Pentagon’s disclosures as to who and why these beings are here. The volume contains original writings by the leading experts of the phenomena such as: Linda Moulton Howe, Earthfiles reporter, Whitley Strieber best-selling author of Communion, Professor John E. Mack, former head of the Harvard Medical school of psychiatry and an alien abduction investigator, Darryl Anka internationally known for his communication with the extraterrestrial Bashar, Nick Pope, former UK Ministry of Defense UFO investigator, Grant Cameron expert on American presidents and UFOs, Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, globalists and founders of the worldwide organization, The Academy for Future Science, Caroline Cory, director of Superhuman and ET: Contact, Mary Rodwell, author of the New Human about star-seed children, Henrietta Weekes, actress and writer, expressing the poetic aspects of making contact. Alan Steinfeld, contributes and curates the collection with 30 years of experience with the subject. The Foreword by George Noory of Coast to Coast AM kicks off the volume with his veteran overview of the need to wake up to the “new realities of extraterrestrial existence.” At this critical juncture in the government’s official acknowledgement of the reality of UFOs/UAPs, scientists, politicians and mainstream news outlets have no idea what to make of these startling revelations or the outpouring of sightings and “contact” experiences currently being reported on a global scale. The book stands as the most comprehensive clarification to date on the intent and intelligence behind the phenomena. The variety of viewpoints expressed in the volume provide a solid foundation for the “preparation” of the greatest challenge to ever face humankind. Making Contact stands as the essential handbook for embracing the most exalted moment in history: Meeting the cosmic others.
