Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment decisions, to our own past.
This third volume in the Consciousness Reframed series, documenting the very latest artistic and theoretical research in new media and telematics including aspects of artificial life, robotics, technoetics, performance, computer music and intelligent architecture.
We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves?
Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location.
Discover how to create your own dream practice to help facilitate your work and relationships, self-exploration, soul growth, emotional healing and personal empowerment.
Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion is an instruction manual in the ideas and methods of the early twentieth- century French psychologist Emile Coue.
Existential Psychotherapy and the Interpretation of Dreams, by Clark Moustakas, presents a fresh model for the effective integration of dreamwork in humanistically oriented psychotherapy.
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states of being, and thus to bring to them a realization of the universality of the evolutionary process and its actuality; and to deal somewhat with the nature of the expanded states of consciousness and the enlarged life toward which all mankind is traveling.
The first practical guide to the transformative uses of salvia Explains how salvia connects you with your higher purpose and aids you in envisioning your unique path in life Describes appropriate methods of use, a shamanic diet to increase effectiveness, and the meaning of the symbols experienced during salvias ecstatic embrace Explores recent clinical research into salvias long-term positive psychological effects and its potential as a treatment for Alzheimers, depression, and addiction Salvia divinorum has been used since ancient times by the Mazatec shamans of Mexico for divination, vision quests, and healing.
An insiders account of the journey to become an ayahuasquero, a shaman who heals with the visionary vine ayahuasca Details the authors training and life as a curandero using ayahuasca medicine, San Pedro cactus, tobacco purges, psychedelic mushrooms, and other visionary plants Offers first-hand accounts of miraculous healing where ayahuasca revealed the cause of the illness, including how the author healed his mother from liver cancer Shows how ayahuasca tourism symbolizes the Western worlds reawakening need to connect with the universal life force For more than 20 years American-born Alan Shoemaker has apprenticed and worked with shamans in Ecuador and Peru, learning the traditional methods of ayahuasca preparation, the ceremonial rituals for its use, and how to commune with the healing spirit of this sacred plant as well as the spirit of the San Pedro cactus and other sacred plant allies.
The history of San Pedro and its uses for healing, creativity, and conscious evolution Includes interviews with practicing San Pedro shamans on their rituals, cactus preparations, and teachings on how San Pedro heals the mind and body Contains accounts from people who have been healed by San Pedro Includes chapters by Eve Bruce, M.
Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity Outlines a future that embraces psychedelics as tools for cognitive development, personal growth, business, and an experience-based religious reformation Presents research on the use of psychedelics to enhance problem-solving, increase motivation, boost the immune system, and deepen ethical values Includes chapters by Roger N.
Reveals the striking parallels between indigenous cultures of the Americas and the ancient Homeric world as well as Tolkiens Middle Earth Explores the shamanic use of healing songs, psychoactive plants, and vision quests at the heart of the Odyssey and the fantasy works of J.
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANNABIS AND YOUR HEALTHUnderpinned by his two-year research trial in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, involving up to 20,000 patients, which will create Europe's largest body of evidence on the plant's medicinal qualities - Professor David Nutt and his team of scientists will break the mould on the way we use Cannabis for our health in the future.
