Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness by Miskovic, Vladimir
Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness by Miskovic, Vladimir

Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness

A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge...
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Author: Vladimir Miskovic
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Language: English
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Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness by Miskovic, Vladimir

Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness

$77.51
Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness by Miskovic, Vladimir

Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness

$77.51
Author: Vladimir Miskovic
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.

We are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show that this way of thinking is both limited and an obstacle to understanding consciousness. In Dreaming Reality, Miskovic and Lynn connect the latest findings from neuroscience--which studies the brain from the outside in, as a purely physical object--to the insights of the world's mystical traditions, which chart elaborate cartographies of the mind from inside out through experiences of meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. We can tackle the biggest questions surrounding the nature of consciousness when we place objective scientific research alongside the phenomenology of "altered" states.

Dreaming Reality offers a rich synthesis of brains and minds, new and old, that challenges many cherished notions of how we experience our worlds and selves. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, Miskovic and Lynn take this only as the starting point of a progressive disentanglement of consciousness. Delving into Buddhism, Vedanta, and Christian mysticism, they find that we have much to learn from dreams, hallucinations, visionary states, ego death, mind wandering, sensory deprivation, psychedelic experimentation, meditation, and minimal phenomenal experiences of consciousness.

Each chapter brings us closer to understanding how we dream reality into existence and how we might transcend impoverished materialist models, whose unacknowledged effect is to drive us toward nihilism. Instead, we arrive at a model of consciousness that is more capacious and compassionate than biological sciences alone can imagine.

Author: Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780674271869


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Publishers Weekly 12/02/2024
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