Dreaming Reality : How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness / Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miskovic, Vladimir, author.

Lynn, Steven J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Psychology and religion.

Contemplation.

Dreams.

Brain.

Mind and reality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Dreaming Reality looks to mystical traditions to challenge orthodoxies of brain science that model consciousness in purely physical terms. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, the authors study visionary states, ego death, meditation, prayer, and other phenomena that bring us closer to understanding how the mind makes experience.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. The Matter of the Mind

2. A Brain That Talks to Itself

3. Looking Directly at the Mind

4. The 500-Million-Year-Old Virtual-Reality Simulator

5. Adding Feelings to the Mix

6. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

7. The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

8. Psychedelics, Sensory Isolation Tanks, and Dreamy Mental States

9. Dreaming Reality

10. The Imaginative Brain and the Origins of Myth

11. Who Is Watching the Show?

12. The Emptiness of Being

13. Nonduality and Reality Beyond the Dream

Coda: Toward an Optimistic Neurophenomenology of the Future

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Miskovic, Vladimir Dreaming Reality

ISBN:

9780674299559

OCLC:

1482263977