The Antipodes of the 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 The Antipodes of the Mind write by Benny Shanon. This book was released on 2002. The Antipodes of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of the phenomenology of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. The author's research is based both on extensive firsthand experiences with Ayahuasca, and on interviews conducted with a large number of informants.
The Antipodes of the Mind
The Antipodes of the 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 The Antipodes of the Mind write by Benny Shanon. This book was released on 2002. The Antipodes of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca, and travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of non-ordinary states of consciousness in general.
The Representational and the Presentational
The Representational and the Presentational - 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 The Representational and the Presentational write by Benny Shanon. This book was released on 2013-12-03. The Representational and the Presentational available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging book the author presents his critique of the contemporary portrayal of cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science and a proposal for a new concept of the mind. Shanon argues that the representational account is seriously lacking and that far from serving as a basis of cognitive activity, representations are the products of such activity. He proposes an alternative view of the mind in which the basic capability of the cognitive system is not the manipulation of symbols but rather action in the world. His book offers a different outlook on the phenomenon of consciousness and presents a new conception of psychological theory and explanation. This revised second edition includes a new Postscript.
The Antipodes
The Antipodes - 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 The Antipodes write by Annie Baker. This book was released on 2019-10-24. The Antipodes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis. First seen at Signature Theatre, New York, in 2017, the play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2019. 'The most original and significant American dramatist since August Wilson' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
Closing of the American Mind
Closing of the American 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 Closing of the American Mind write by Allan Bloom. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Closing of the American Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
