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Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner in a relationship? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In this book Michael Singer explores the question of who we are and arrives at the conclusion that our identity is to be found in our consciousness,...
2) Consciousness and self-consciousness: a defense of the higher-order thought theory of consciousness
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Advances in consciousness research volume 6
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John Benjamins Pub
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"Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build toward an explanation of just what the matter is." "Nicholas Humphrey begins this exploration of the biggest of big questions with a challenge to the reader, and himself. What's involved in "seeing red"? What is it like for us to see someone else seeing something red?" "Seeing a red screen tells us a fact about something in the world. But it also creates...
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Advances in consciousness research volume 12
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American Psychological Association
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[2003]
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"'Alterations of Consciousness' is an analytic investigation into the nature of cognitive reality. Imants Baruss explores various manifestations of consciousness with rational and empirical rigour beginning with more ordinary states such as thinking, sleeping, dreaming and continuing on into hypnosis, trance, psychedelic experiences, transcendence and experiences related to death. This comprehensive overview of altered states examines consciousness...
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"Being Aware of Being Aware explores our primary, most intimate and familiar experience: the knowing of our own being, or awareness's knowing of itself in us. However, awareness, or the experience of simply 'being aware', has no observable qualities and is, therefore, usually overlooked or ignored. The returning of awareness to itself -- being aware of being aware -- is the essence of meditation and prayer, and the direct path to lasting peace and...
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Advances in consciousness research volume 20
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John Benjamins
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c2000
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Advances in consciousness research volume 72
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John Benjamins Pub. Co
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c2008
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Sahaja Publications
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2017.
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"Our world culture is founded on the belief that consciousness is derived from matter, giving rise to the materialistic assumption that informs almost every aspect of our lives as is the root cause of the suffering within individuals, the conflicts between communities and nations, and the degradation of our environment. The Nature of Consciousness exposes the fallacy of this belief and suggests that the recognition of the presence, the primacy and...
20) Mindfulness
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In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer?́?s theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment...
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