NY 1974 1st Columbia University. 8vo., 211pp., index. hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ.

Biogenetic Structuralism

Politics & Social Sciences

D'Aquili, Eugene G.

Laughlin, Charles D.

Social Sciences

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Reprint, in paper covers, of the Columbia U. Press edition of 1990. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Brain, Symbol & Experience: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Human Consciousness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McManus, John

Psychology & Counseling

Communing with the Gods presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. ¬The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds. ¬Communing with the Gods surveys anthropological theories of dreaming, what we know about how the brain produces dreams and why, and lucid dream research and how the notion of lucidity applies to dreaming of traditional societies. It explores the ways that societies encourage, evoke, experience and interpret dreams, as well as how people act in response to information obtained in the dream state. A comprehensive theory of brain, culture and dreaming is presented that explains the neurobiological functions of sleep and dreaming, the evolution of dreaming, the universality of, and cultural variation in dream elements, and the role of dreaming as a system of intra-psychic communication. ¬This theory is then applied to an examination of dreaming in modern society. The book discusses how modern dream-work may ameliorate wide-spread alienation, spiritual exhaustion and despair in modern society.

Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain

Philosophy

Daily Grail Publishing

The Contemplative Brain offers a comprehensive exploration of the cultural neurophenomenology of contemplation. The book is written by a neuroanthropologist who spent years as a Tibetan Tantric Buddhist monk and who has practiced many different traditions of contemplation, including Buddhist vipassana, Tantric arising yoga, Zen Buddhist zazen, Husserlian transcendental phenomenology, Western Mysteries esoteric Tarot, dream meditation, shamanic journeys, and other approaches to self-discovery. Over the course of half a century of contemplative experience, the author has learned to separate the practices and experiences of meditation traditions from their cultural, ideological, and religious trappings. He discovered that the brain-mind that seeks truth about the external world can be redirected to an exploration of the vast world of the inner Self-the truth-seeking brain in its contemplative mode. The book explains how the brain works to penetrate, understand, and eventually realize its own internal processes. This includes a detailed account of how the brain's sensorium portrays the world and the Self to itself in various alternative states of consciousness. A cross-cultural examination of methods and institutions used by contemplatives in the past and present to achieve self-awareness shows that humans have been interested in phenomenology for thousands of years. Methods for calming, centering, focusing and realization may or may not involve the use of entheogens (psychoactive drugs), ordeals, quests, ascetic lifestyles, hyper-awareness in dream states, and pursuit of mystical episodes, but all involve inherent capacity of the contemplative brain to discover its own nature.

The Contemplative Brain: Meditation, Phenomenology and Self-Discovery from a Neuroanthropological Point of View

Religion & Spirituality

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural--or individual--beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Berghahn Books

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural―or individual―beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

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Biogenetic Structuralism

Brain, Symbol & Experience: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Human Consciousness

Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain

The Contemplative Brain: Meditation, Phenomenology and Self-Discovery from a Neuroanthropological Point of View

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why