Author: Nancy M. Krieger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089678
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book investigates consciousness as an emergent state arising from the global functioning of the brain and the body. In this research Krieger applies these concepts to analytical psychology, particularly to the constellation of the complex and of the archetype. Global brain functioning is considered as a complex system whose macroscopic, emergent patterns such as thoughts and behaviours are determined by physical parameters including emotion, memory, and perception. The concept of the feeling-toned complex was among the first of the theories to be developed by Jung, and the theories of complexity and dynamical systems which subsequently developed in the physical sciences did not exist at the time. This book takes a new look at the feeling-toned complex as a basin of attraction which competes for consciousness against other complexes to determine behaviour. By drawing parallels between current ideas in neuroscience and Jung’s more traditional theories, Krieger discusses the relevance for both psychotherapy and everyday life. Bridges to Consciousness considers the importance of the link between emotion and the complex in both the establishment of consciousness and the determination of self-esteem, making the work relevant to therapists and analysts. This book will also awaken interest in complexes in both the Jungian and wider neuroscientific research communities and will therefore interest researchers and academics in the field of psychology who want an insight into how the ideas of Jung can be applied beyond the traditional analytic field.
Bridges to Consciousness
Author: Nancy M. Krieger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089678
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book investigates consciousness as an emergent state arising from the global functioning of the brain and the body. In this research Krieger applies these concepts to analytical psychology, particularly to the constellation of the complex and of the archetype. Global brain functioning is considered as a complex system whose macroscopic, emergent patterns such as thoughts and behaviours are determined by physical parameters including emotion, memory, and perception. The concept of the feeling-toned complex was among the first of the theories to be developed by Jung, and the theories of complexity and dynamical systems which subsequently developed in the physical sciences did not exist at the time. This book takes a new look at the feeling-toned complex as a basin of attraction which competes for consciousness against other complexes to determine behaviour. By drawing parallels between current ideas in neuroscience and Jung’s more traditional theories, Krieger discusses the relevance for both psychotherapy and everyday life. Bridges to Consciousness considers the importance of the link between emotion and the complex in both the establishment of consciousness and the determination of self-esteem, making the work relevant to therapists and analysts. This book will also awaken interest in complexes in both the Jungian and wider neuroscientific research communities and will therefore interest researchers and academics in the field of psychology who want an insight into how the ideas of Jung can be applied beyond the traditional analytic field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134089678
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book investigates consciousness as an emergent state arising from the global functioning of the brain and the body. In this research Krieger applies these concepts to analytical psychology, particularly to the constellation of the complex and of the archetype. Global brain functioning is considered as a complex system whose macroscopic, emergent patterns such as thoughts and behaviours are determined by physical parameters including emotion, memory, and perception. The concept of the feeling-toned complex was among the first of the theories to be developed by Jung, and the theories of complexity and dynamical systems which subsequently developed in the physical sciences did not exist at the time. This book takes a new look at the feeling-toned complex as a basin of attraction which competes for consciousness against other complexes to determine behaviour. By drawing parallels between current ideas in neuroscience and Jung’s more traditional theories, Krieger discusses the relevance for both psychotherapy and everyday life. Bridges to Consciousness considers the importance of the link between emotion and the complex in both the establishment of consciousness and the determination of self-esteem, making the work relevant to therapists and analysts. This book will also awaken interest in complexes in both the Jungian and wider neuroscientific research communities and will therefore interest researchers and academics in the field of psychology who want an insight into how the ideas of Jung can be applied beyond the traditional analytic field.
Bridges of Consciousness
Author: Kathy Oddenino
Publisher: Joy Publications
ISBN: 9780923081010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: Joy Publications
ISBN: 9780923081010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Theories of the Chakras
Author: Hiroshi Motoyama
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8178220237
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
It is an outstanding book from both the scientific and spiritual points of view. It is the unique record of the pioneering experiments which presents clear, electrophysiological evidence of the existence of the network of chakras and nadis which form the infrastructure of the subtle energies existing in the pranic and psychic dimensions, which underlie and activate the physical, material body of man. The experiments in the book successfully integrate the subjective and objective dimensions of knowledge and will serve as guideposts and blueprints for experiments in the years ahead. The chakras and other components of the human energy field were largely brought to the attention of the Western world by clairvoyant Charles W. Leadbeater. His pioneering work is discussed in detail in this fascinating exploration of the subtle body, along with that of other respected seers and yogis. "This book represents a monumental effort to review and correlate much of the accumulated knowledge of the subtle energy systems...Such a book could only be written by a person who has had the life-long personal experiences which Dr Motoyama so generously shares with the reader. These experiences provide a step-by-step illustration of unfolding and expanding consciousness. The book is necessary reading for all serious students of the subject of consciousness." - George W. Meek
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8178220237
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
It is an outstanding book from both the scientific and spiritual points of view. It is the unique record of the pioneering experiments which presents clear, electrophysiological evidence of the existence of the network of chakras and nadis which form the infrastructure of the subtle energies existing in the pranic and psychic dimensions, which underlie and activate the physical, material body of man. The experiments in the book successfully integrate the subjective and objective dimensions of knowledge and will serve as guideposts and blueprints for experiments in the years ahead. The chakras and other components of the human energy field were largely brought to the attention of the Western world by clairvoyant Charles W. Leadbeater. His pioneering work is discussed in detail in this fascinating exploration of the subtle body, along with that of other respected seers and yogis. "This book represents a monumental effort to review and correlate much of the accumulated knowledge of the subtle energy systems...Such a book could only be written by a person who has had the life-long personal experiences which Dr Motoyama so generously shares with the reader. These experiences provide a step-by-step illustration of unfolding and expanding consciousness. The book is necessary reading for all serious students of the subject of consciousness." - George W. Meek
The Bridge to Consciousness
Author: David J Conway
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503595609
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This book is written to Bridge the gap between Science and our Old and New beliefs. It is a 12 Step Bridge that holds within subjects such as the Science of Numbers, Energy Attraction and Infinity how Thoughts create our reality, Science and the Universe, the Illusion of Time, the Powerful presence of the Now and Manifestation. When your consciousness awakens within the present moment, you begin to realize that there is a massive infinite empire of intelligence beyond thought and that thought is only the tip of the iceberg of that intelligence. Each step on the bridge holds infinity and truths perhaps beyond our own comprehension but once over the bridge, everything makes perfect sense. This book shows us how to not only use our thoughts to create our reality but how to turn 60,000 thoughts into one powerful thought that creates manifestation. Each subject is infinite! The choice is yours how far down that rabbit hole you want to go? Welcome to the journey of Awakening!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503595609
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This book is written to Bridge the gap between Science and our Old and New beliefs. It is a 12 Step Bridge that holds within subjects such as the Science of Numbers, Energy Attraction and Infinity how Thoughts create our reality, Science and the Universe, the Illusion of Time, the Powerful presence of the Now and Manifestation. When your consciousness awakens within the present moment, you begin to realize that there is a massive infinite empire of intelligence beyond thought and that thought is only the tip of the iceberg of that intelligence. Each step on the bridge holds infinity and truths perhaps beyond our own comprehension but once over the bridge, everything makes perfect sense. This book shows us how to not only use our thoughts to create our reality but how to turn 60,000 thoughts into one powerful thought that creates manifestation. Each subject is infinite! The choice is yours how far down that rabbit hole you want to go? Welcome to the journey of Awakening!
The Etheric Body of Man
Author: Phoebe Bendit
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835604895
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Clairvoyant and a Psychiatrist pool their talents in a study of the human health aura! No other work can speak to this subject with such confidence. Imagine: (1) Taking one of the most respected clairvoyants in the world, and (2) a psychiatrist recognized for his fine contributions to his field, (3) having the clairvoyant study the aura of a human subject using her unusual talents, (4) having the psychiatrist study the psyche of the same subject, and, finally, (5) integrating their observations to arrive at new and startling conclusions concerning the subtle (physically invisible) human bodies. It has never been done before. It may never be done again.
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835604895
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Clairvoyant and a Psychiatrist pool their talents in a study of the human health aura! No other work can speak to this subject with such confidence. Imagine: (1) Taking one of the most respected clairvoyants in the world, and (2) a psychiatrist recognized for his fine contributions to his field, (3) having the clairvoyant study the aura of a human subject using her unusual talents, (4) having the psychiatrist study the psyche of the same subject, and, finally, (5) integrating their observations to arrive at new and startling conclusions concerning the subtle (physically invisible) human bodies. It has never been done before. It may never be done again.
Altered States of Consciousness
Author: Marc Wittmann
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262347741
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
What can altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—tell us about the mystery of consciousness? A groundbreaking study of out-of-body-experiences, drug intoxication, and shock—perfect for readers interested in psychedelics, psychology and meditation. During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been ignored by mainstream science, or considered crazy fantasies. Recent research, however, has located the neural underpinnings of these altered states of mind. In this book, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann shows how experiences that disturb or widen our everyday understanding of the self can help solve the mystery of consciousness. Wittmann explains that the relationship between consciousness of time and consciousness of self is close; in extreme circumstances, the experiences of space and self-intensify and weaken together. He considers the emergence of the self in waking life and dreams; how our sense of time is distorted by extreme situations ranging from terror to mystical enlightenment; the experience of the moment; and the loss of time and self in such disorders as depression, schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Dostoyevsky reported godly bliss during epileptic seizures; neurologists are now investigating the phenomenon of the epileptic aura. Wittmann describes new studies of psychedelics that show how the brain builds consciousness of self and time, and discusses pilot programs that use hallucinogens to treat severe depression, anxiety, and addiction. If we want to understand our consciousness, our subjectivity, Wittmann argues, we must not be afraid to break new ground. Studying altered states of consciousness leads us directly to the heart of the matter: time and self, the foundations of consciousness.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262347741
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
What can altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—tell us about the mystery of consciousness? A groundbreaking study of out-of-body-experiences, drug intoxication, and shock—perfect for readers interested in psychedelics, psychology and meditation. During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been ignored by mainstream science, or considered crazy fantasies. Recent research, however, has located the neural underpinnings of these altered states of mind. In this book, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann shows how experiences that disturb or widen our everyday understanding of the self can help solve the mystery of consciousness. Wittmann explains that the relationship between consciousness of time and consciousness of self is close; in extreme circumstances, the experiences of space and self-intensify and weaken together. He considers the emergence of the self in waking life and dreams; how our sense of time is distorted by extreme situations ranging from terror to mystical enlightenment; the experience of the moment; and the loss of time and self in such disorders as depression, schizophrenia, and epilepsy. Dostoyevsky reported godly bliss during epileptic seizures; neurologists are now investigating the phenomenon of the epileptic aura. Wittmann describes new studies of psychedelics that show how the brain builds consciousness of self and time, and discusses pilot programs that use hallucinogens to treat severe depression, anxiety, and addiction. If we want to understand our consciousness, our subjectivity, Wittmann argues, we must not be afraid to break new ground. Studying altered states of consciousness leads us directly to the heart of the matter: time and self, the foundations of consciousness.
Bridge to Superconsciousness
Author: Rick Prater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963576644
Category : Meditation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963576644
Category : Meditation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Of Bridges
Author: Thomas Harrison
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682649X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682649X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.
You Are God. Get Over It!
Author: Story Waters
Publisher: Limitlessness
ISBN: 9780976506249
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"What you will discover once you have whipped the blindfold off and you look out into the new multidimensional reality that is your new realization of freedom, then the fun really begins. This is where and when you will create the dream in your heart. This is where you will create your most exciting self. This is where you discover that there is nothing you cannot be, for you are everything.This is when you will discover not only how amazing you are, but how amazing this whole reality system is and how incredible it is that you are here." - Story Waters This is the follow up to Story Waters' first book "The Messiah Seed."
Publisher: Limitlessness
ISBN: 9780976506249
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"What you will discover once you have whipped the blindfold off and you look out into the new multidimensional reality that is your new realization of freedom, then the fun really begins. This is where and when you will create the dream in your heart. This is where you will create your most exciting self. This is where you discover that there is nothing you cannot be, for you are everything.This is when you will discover not only how amazing you are, but how amazing this whole reality system is and how incredible it is that you are here." - Story Waters This is the follow up to Story Waters' first book "The Messiah Seed."
Being No One
Author: Thomas Metzinger
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262263807
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 903
Book Description
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262263807
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 903
Book Description
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.