Consciousness: brain, states of awareness, and mysticism

Karen Emerson, ill.

Part 1 - The brain and consciousness. 1 The human brain - Steven Rose. 2 The brain's three principal functional units - A.R. Luria. 3 How the brain works; a new theory - E. Roy John. 4 The two modes of consciousness and the two halves of the brain - David Galin. 5 The paranoid streak in man - Paul MacLean. 6 The mind-brain question - Wilder Penfield. Part 2 - Ordinary states of consciousness. 7 What is perception? - S.H. Bartley. 8 On the sources of pleasure - Jerome Kagan. 9 The varieties of attention - William James. 10 Good-me, bad-me, not-me - Harry Stack Sullivan. 11 Anomalies of attention - Graham Reed. 12 The importance of daydreaming - Jerome L. Singer. 13 The conditions of creativity - Jerome Bruner. 14 The flow experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 15 The psychology of tiredness - E.L. Hartmann. 16 Two kinds of sleep - William Dement. 17 The nature of dreams, Wilse B. Webb. 18 The meaning of dreams - Calvin S. Hall. Part 3 - Altered states of consciousness. 19 The systems approach to states of consciousness - Charles T. Tart. 20 Altered states of awareness - Ernest R. Hilgard. 21 State-bound knowledge - Roland Fischer. 22 The psychopharmacological revolution - Murray E. Jarvik. 23 The doors of perception - Aldous Huxley. 24 The true speed trip: schizophrenia - Solomon Snyder. 25 Living with schizophrenia - Norma MacDonald. 26 The shattered language of schizophrenia - Brendan A. Maher. 27 Shamans and acute schizophrenia - Julian Silverman. 28 The relaxation response - Herbert Benson et al.. 19 A map of inner space - Daniel Goleman. 30 Biofeedback - Gerald Jones. 31 Tuning in on the Twilight Zone - Thomas Budrynski. 32 The hypnotic state - Ernest R. Hilgard. 33 Hypnosis and dissociation - Kenneth Bowers. 34 Self-exploration in the hypnotic state - Milton H. Erckson. 35 Social isolation: a case for interdisciplinary research - Peter Suedfeld. 36 The painful ecstasy of healing - Richard Katz. 37 The high dream - Charles Tart. Part 4 - The politics of consciousness. 39 Are we a nation of mystics? - Andrew Greeley and William McCready. 40 Transcendental experience - R. D. Laing. 41 What mysticism is - Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. 42 Comments on the GAP Report on Mysticism - Arthur J. Deikman. 43 Schizophrenia--the inward journey - Joseph Campbell. 44 The six realms of existence - Chogyam Trungpa. 45 Pyschiatry and the sacred - Jacob Needleman. 46 Eastern and Western models of man - Ram Dass. 47 The way things are - Huston Smith

',,,a provocative collection of readings chosen from ...diverse areas....these 47 articles form a valuable eclectic introduction to the study of consciousness.'

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