Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness write by Daniel Pinchbeck. This book was released on 2012-09-18. Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, these essays explore regions of the mind often traversed by shamans, mystics, and visionary artists; adjacent and contiguous to our normal waking state, these realms may be encountered in dreams or out-of-body experiences, accessed through meditation or plant medicines, and marked by psychic phenomena and uncanny synchronicities. From demons encountered in sleep paralysis visions to psychic research conducted by the CIA, the seemingly disparate topics covered here congeal to form a larger picture of what these extraordinary states of consciousness might have to tell us about the nature of reality itself.
Edges of Consciousness
Edges of Consciousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edges of Consciousness write by Joseph Heirling. This book was released on 2015-01-22. Edges of Consciousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Welcome to this first book, Edges of Consciousness, in our series exploring our collective, global consciousness. Overall, the series of five books will become an embracing tome entitled Bubbles of Consciousness. The end goal is to affect a change in humanity's somewhat self-destructive behaviors, i.e., those behaviors that are steadily and increasingly poisoning our environment, our planet, and ourselves. The immediate aim is to offer creative solutions to humanity's pressing dilemmas. The first and second books have been written, and the third book is under development. The series will complete with a total of five books. The guiding assumption in developing this series is that our values and thoughts determine our behavior, and that in turn, our behavior impacts our environment for better, or for worse. In this series, topic areas touched upon will include (1) human history, psychology and sociology, (2) extra sensory perception, paranormal experience and parapsychology, and (3) spirituality, transcendentalism, mysticism, religion, and the supernatural. The first book, Edges of Consciousness, is a review of the transcendent powers lying within human consciousness. These transcendent powers have been largely either forgotten ~ hidden ~ ignored ~ or overlooked. Consequently, they have become quite mysterious to the average human being, and are currently categorized as belonging to the realm of the mystical paranormal. Edges of Consciousness, explores (1) paranormal phenomena such as psychokinesis, telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and reincarnation, (2) the possibility that there is far more to us than we consciously realize, and (3) that our hidden gifts may be helpful in pursuing our goal of saving our planet Earth from humanity's misguided adventures. This book does not attempt to persuade through argumentation, but rather through a comprehensive review of what is known today about paranormal phenomena, especially through the eyes of rigorous and objective scientific researchers. Paranormal research is very much an ongoing activity, and there is much happening today that most of us are not aware of. This book should bring us relatively up-to-date on current research activity, and the interesting possibilities that become evident from that research. Most of this is happening at the outer edges of our everyday normal, or conventional, mundane collective consciousness. Subsequent books in the series will continue the exploration of collective consciousness by examining related areas. Conventional thinking will be thoroughly investigated, including the different manifestations of conventional thinking, the paradoxical question of ownership, and the historical roots underpinning conventional thinking. Lesser known alternatives to conventional thinking will also be looked at, and possibilities probed for usefulness. In this series exploring collective human consciousness, the ultimate hope is that paths will be discovered and utilized in such a way so as to help us reclaim the beauty and well-being of our awesome planet Earth, and save ourselves in the process. All of us enjoy life here on this planet, and presently humanity is at the risk of losing that existence. The signs of imminent environmental collapse are all around us. This book is dedicated to all those who are making the effort to quickly turn things around.
States of Mind
States of Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook States of Mind write by Wellcome Collection. This book was released on 2016. States of Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 100+ writers, artists, philosophers and scientists explore the nature of consciousness.
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain write by Stephen Grossberg. This book was released on 2021. Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How can you understand something as complex as the tool that is being used to understand it? This book provides an introductory and self-contained description of some of the exciting answers to these questions that modern theories of mind and brain have recently proposed. Stephen Grossberg is broadly acknowledged to be the most important pioneer and current research leader who has, for the past 50 years, modelled how brains give rise to minds, notably how neural circuits in multiple brain regions interact together to generate psychological functions. This research has led to a unified understanding of how, where, and why our brains can consciously see, hear, feel, and know about the world, and effectively plan and act within it. The work embodies revolutionary Principia of Mind that clarify how autonomous adaptive intelligence is achieved. It provides mechanistic explanations of multiple mental disorders, including symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, autism, amnesia, and sleep disorders; biological bases of morality and religion, including why our brains are biased towards the good so that values are not purely relative; perplexing aspects of the human condition, including why many decisions are irrational and self-defeating despite evolution's selection of adaptive behaviors; and solutions to large-scale problems in machine learning, technology, and Artificial Intelligence that provide a blueprint for autonomously intelligent algorithms and robots. Because brains embody a universal developmental code, unifying insights also emerge about shared laws that are found in all living cellular tissues, from the most primitive to the most advanced, notably how the laws governing networks of interacting cells support developmental and learning processes in all species. The fundamental brain design principles of complementarity, uncertainty, and resonance that Grossberg has discovered also reflect laws of the physical world with which our brains ceaselessly interact, and which enable our brains to incrementally learn to understand those laws, thereby enabling humans to understand the world scientifically. Accessibly written, and lavishly illustrated, Conscious Mind/Resonant Brain is the magnum opus of one of the most influential scientists of the past 50 years, and will appeal to a broad readership across the sciences and humanities.
Liminal Dreaming
Liminal Dreaming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liminal Dreaming write by Jennifer Dumpert. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Liminal Dreaming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A consciousness and dream hacker explains how to use liminal dreaming—the dreams that come between sleep and waking—for self-actualization and consciousness expansion. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia—the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state. Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night.
