Synaesthesia, a phenomenon known to science for over a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses--as in "color hearing." This book provides the first history of synaesthesia and of the controversies about its significance. Kevin Dann offers new perspectives on this unusual mode of perception and its relation to the evolution of human consciousness. .

Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dann, Kevin T.

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient-a synaesthete-experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for over a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses. This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann discusses divergent views of synaesthesia and eideticism over the last hundred years and explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception. Celebrated at the turn of the century as a uniquely creative form of consciousness, synaesthesia became embroiled in a debate between Romantics who championed it as a desirable harbinger of a new, more spiritual age, and positivists who denounced it as primitive and irrational. The author debunks Romantic notions of the transcendental nature of synaesthesia and shows that although novelist Vladimir Nabokov was a true synaesthete and eidetic, other individuals the Romantics considered synaesthetes were not. Drawing on studies of autism and hallucinogenic drugs, Dann offers new perspectives on synaesthesia and eideticism and how they relate to the evolution of human consciousness.

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

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Traces on the Appalachians: A natural history of serpentine in eastern North America

Biological Sciences

Rutgers University Press

The intersection of cultural history and natural history. (or the sheer refreshing novelty of a regional portrait that insists on the vital inseparability of natural and social history, and that refuses to take sides, this book is a great ride. - Orion)

Lewis Creek Lost and Found (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)

Univ Pr of New England

Well known for his imaginative treatment of environmental issues, Kevin Dann presents a natural history of the Lewis Creek watershed in Vermont's Champlain Valley, told largely through the lives and thought of three individuals,whose investigations brought them into close contact with the area. Congregationalist minister John Perry (1825 - 1872) conducted paleontological research on the region's Paleozoic rock and attempted to negotiate his era's confrontation between science and religion. Rowland Robinson (1833 - 1900) was a Quaker farmer and author/artist whose historical fiction often dealt with issues of human impact on this watershed. The first plant-hunting expeditions of another Quaker farmer and noted plant collector, Cyrus Pringle (1838 - 1911), took place in this watershed as well. Dann's account of these three men, whose lives span nearly a century, graphically illustrates contemporary human-nature relationships at the same time that it suggests the limits of science in circumscribing our experience of the physical landscape. The experience of pain and loss is documented along with the stories of success and celebration, since, as Dann writes, "Genuine places, like human hearts, have dark recesses within them, and by examining these recesses within the Lewis Creek watershed, we take a small step toward demythologizing Vermont."

History

Americas

Middlebury College Pr

In 1909, the Champlain and Hudson Valleys-and America and the world along with them-celebrated the 300th anniversary of European "discovery" of these regions. Marking America's entry onto the world stage, the 1909 commemorations' parades, pageants, speeches and other spectacles prophetically mapped the nation's 20th century course toward empire. In the same year, the Austrian esoteric teacher Rudolf Steiner prophetically envisioned a very different American and world destiny, one whose culmination comes in 2009, the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson's fateful landings. Focusing its historical gaze on Burlington, Vermont and Manhattan, A Short Story of American Destiny, 1909-2009 is an unsettling, surprising look at a small set of past events with profound implications for our present moment. Author of Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America and Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge, Dr. Kevin Dann teaches in the History Department at State University of New York, Plattsburgh. San Rafael, California

A Short Story of American Destiny: 1909–2009

Fortunatus Press

In Europe during the Middle Ages, the most learned philosopher and the humblest peasant alike engaged in heated discussion and spectacular speculation on the subject of "Wonders." The sports of Nature-Unicorns, Sea Serpents, Dragons, and Odd Things Falling From the Sky; Signs in the Heavens; Human Prodigies; Dark Days; Auroras &amp; Comets; the deep mysteries of Earth &amp; Heaven-all drew forth peoples' astonishment and earnest questions. Are there not Wonders-and Marvels, Mysteries, Myth, and Magic-in our age as well? Of course there are! But we moderns tend not to be aware of them, and when they make headlines, we tend to dismiss them as fakes or hallucinations. An introduction to a new way of thinking about the Past, this "Brief History of the World" follows a trail of Wonders over the course of the last five centuries. From the extraordinary deeds of Joan of Arc to the mysteries of Aztec sacrifice to the workings of the secret brotherhoods of East and West, you will hear a surprising tale of World Destiny, one that inspires you to seek your own Grail within. Dr. Kevin Dann teaches in the History Department at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

A Book of Wonders: Marvels, Mysteries, Myth & Magic

World

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Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge

Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge

Traces on the Appalachians: A natural history of serpentine in eastern North America

Lewis Creek Lost and Found (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)

Lewis Creek Lost and Found (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)

A Short Story of American Destiny: 1909–2009

A Book of Wonders: Marvels, Mysteries, Myth & Magic