Pursuing Consciousness
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Pursuing Consciousness
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Author : Peter Ralston
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Pursuing Consciousness written by Peter Ralston and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Building on his previous groundbreaking work, Peter Ralston once again proves to be a sure-footed guide for readers seeking to negotiate the challenging terrain of personal and spiritual growth. In accessible language, Ralston demonstrates how the lofty goals of self-transformation and enlightenment can be achieved with a no-nonsense approach available to anyone willing to reach beyond their current experience of self and reality. Pursuing Consciousness is a down-to-earth handbook for staying focused on the work at hand, even while tackling such unsettling tasks as investigating deeply ingrained psychological beliefs and identifying common areas of misunderstanding that hamper transformative growth. Ralston explains that deeper levels of consciousness aren't just for monks—anyone can have an enlightenment experience. He shows that enlightenment does not transform the self, and transforming the self does not produce enlightenment. Once we grasp that these two pursuits take place in entirely different domains of consciousness, we can use each to empower the other. Ralston provides specific tools for changing the very person that we experience being. His work has been acclaimed by people from a diverse range of disciplines—including spiritual teachers, psychiatrists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and artists. As with Ralston’s previous works, this book points the way to a direct encounter with the true nature of Being and the possibility of real personal change. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Genius Of Being
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Author : Peter Ralston
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-02-28
The Genius Of Being written by Peter Ralston and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here in The Genius of Being, a book of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and consciousness. The second volume, Pursuing Consciousness, clarifies the difference between enlightenment and self-transformation, and then pairs these two goals in a strikingly effective way. This third book is both shorter and more complex, taking us straight to the heart of the origins of our experience. In a progression of illuminating assertions, Ralston shows us how human consciousness carves out distinctions from whatever is absolutely true. This dynamic not only generates both self and reality from nothing, it imbues them with the quality of objective truth. From the time we first distinguish between self and not-self as infants, we begin making a sequence of existential assumptions that result in the illusion that a self is some ethereal “object” within. This universally accepted assumption persists despite the failure of exhaustive investigations to locate this inner self. This book is not for the faint of heart or the casual seeker, but contemplating the assertions here empowers you to personally and experientially grasp what is rarely even glimpsed: a profound consciousness of the genesis of human experience.
Consciousness Dialogues
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Author : Peter Ralston
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2018-06-12
Consciousness Dialogues written by Peter Ralston and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-12 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Peter Ralston responds to 150 questions about consciousness from a global spectrum of people striving to grasp the nature of their own selves This illuminating collection of 150 questions and responses between Peter Ralston and a global spectrum of seekers provides a rare and nuanced look at the nature of consciousness and the path to understanding our true selves. Ralston is the author of the groundbreaking trilogy on the existential foundations of the human condition—The Book of Not Knowing, Pursuing Consciousness, and The Genius of Being. Here he has selected inquiries from more than two decades of question-and-answer exchanges with students as they work their way through his communications. The mosaic of viewpoints from an astonishing diversity of real people at all levels of consciousness work yields a narrative that is intricate, wide-ranging, intimate, and emotionally honest. These dialogues expand our understanding of consciousness, test our assumptions, and interrogate the very process of inquiry.
The Liberation Of Consciousness From Identification With Form
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Author : Steven Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2019-05-30
The Liberation Of Consciousness From Identification With Form written by Steven Kaufman and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Self-Help categories.
The purpose of this work is to explain in detail how consciousness identifies with form, how that identification is perpetuated by the reactivity that naturally follows, and why this misidentification is a necessary part of the evolution of consciousness into ever-greater awareness of itself. Ultimately, the reason for explaining all of this is to make it clear that the way out of this self-constructed and self-perpetuated delusion is through some degree of nonreactivity. That is, what will be explained is that the way out of what seems to be the trap in which we have purposefully placed ourselves lies simply through ceasing to continuously interact with the world in a way that is dictated solely by our delusion regarding our nature, i.e., by the idea that what we are is form. Because as long as we continue to interact with the world solely on the basis of this delusion, the delusion cannot do other than persist. And as long as the delusion persists, as long as we are actively generating and perpetuating this delusion through our reactivity, i.e., through the way in which we naturally tend to interact with the world of form while knowing ourselves as form, we must continue to know ourselves as we are not, and so we must also continue to suffer.
Count Up To Infinity
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Author : Dahveed Nelson
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-04-28
Count Up To Infinity written by Dahveed Nelson and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-28 with Self-Help categories.
Dahveed Nelson, a founding member of The Last Poets (one of the forefathers of hip hop) continues the work he began in 1968, as a member of the artistic fraternity, in this exploration of black consciousness. In a series of journal entries, he seeks to usher in a new world and observes that in seeking their blackness, the black community is seeking higher consciousness. Count up to Infinity is a multigenre, multilevel experience. It is, first and foremost, an exercise in the elevation of human consciousness and thus draws upon and at the same time shares one pathfinders personal experiences as spiritual seeker, social psychologist, and advocate of the dawning golden age. The book may also be seen as a poetic expressiona reality, stream of consciousness novel; and, in some sense, it could be viewed as social commentary. It is a multifaceted worka writing that defies genre classification. Contemplate lifes greatest questions and find solutions to everyday problemsespecially problems in the black communitywith the insights in Count Up to Infinity.
Power And Freedom In The Space Of Reasons
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Author : Tuomo Tiisala
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Power And Freedom In The Space Of Reasons written by Tuomo Tiisala and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject’s constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, and Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault’s philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of “the archaeology of knowledge.” As a result, the book not only explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one’s own understanding. Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy.
Seeing Red
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Author : Nicholas Humphrey
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Seeing Red written by Nicholas Humphrey and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Psychology categories.
“A brilliantly inventive account of the evolution of consciousness, the best yet” (Paul Broks, Prospect). “Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is.” Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling 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 a new fact—a sensation in each of our minds, the feeling of redness. And that’s the mystery. Conventional science so far hasn’t told us what conscious sensations are made of, or how we get access to them, or why we have them at all. From an evolutionary perspective, what’s the point of consciousness? Humphrey offers a daring and novel solution, arguing that sensations are not things that happen to us, they are things we do—originating in our primordial ancestors’ expressions of liking or disgust. Tracing the evolutionary trajectory through to human beings, he shows how this has led to sensations playing the key role in the human sense of Self. The Self, as we now know it from within, seems to have fascinating other-worldly properties. It leads us to believe in mind-body duality and the existence of a soul. And such beliefs—even if mistaken—can be highly adaptive, because they increase the value we place on our own and others’ lives. “Consciousness matters,” Humphrey concludes with striking paradox, “because it is its function to matter. It has been designed to create in human beings a Self whose life is worth pursuing.” Praise for Seeing Red “A wonderful amalgam of science, philosophy, and art. [Seeing Red] is based on deep knowledge of visual processing by the brain and poetic understanding of human experience. This is a remarkable achievement.” —Richard Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Bristol, and editor of The Oxford Companion to the Mind “A brief, brilliant, and wonderfully lucid contribution to consciousness studies. By combining empirical scientific method, evolutionary theory, and a sensitive appreciation of the arts, Nicholas Humphrey argues plausibly that the “hard problem” of consciousness—the difficulty of explaining the connection between the material brain and the phenomenon of individual selfhood—may itself be the answer to a bigger question: what makes us human?”—David Lodge, author of Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays “Illustrating his argument with the musings of poets and painters, Humphrey stylishly inspires curiosity about consciousness.” —Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
Explaining The Shift In Consciousness
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Author : Endall Beall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-11
Explaining The Shift In Consciousness written by Endall Beall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-11 with categories.
In this volume the author explains the messages presented in the 'Becoming' book, the third volume of the New Paradigm Trilogy presented in 1999. The main topics covered in this volume are explanations about the two systems of human consciousness and the coming shift in consciousness and what it means for humanity. The entire Becoming book is presented in these pages along with explanations of clarification supplied by the author to promote greater understanding for the reader. This book contains messages for a group of dedicated individuals who refer to themselves as ground crew or Light Workers, but the messages apply to any human being who is seeking expanded consciousness and desires to help create a better path for humanity to evolve. There are explanations provided that clarify the roles of those who are committed to helping prepare the transition of humanity from one form of conscious awareness to a new paradigm of cognitive advancement. This will not be an easy or comfortable read as there have been many misperceptions about the New Paradigm Trilogy since it was first released to the public. The messages in many places in Becoming were quite enigmatic and the author of this book works to remove much of that enigma and clarify that confusion with pragmatic and easy to understand explanations about the harder to understand passages within the book. To many people, the messages may seem ''negative'', but what is revealed in the pages of this book are simply hard truths that humanity must face in order to shift its consciousness to a higher state of awareness, which may well affect the survival of humanity on this planet. Most people who are seeking a Shift in Consciousness have not given the issue much pragmatic thought and have mistakenly gone down the road of mystical expectations. This book brings sobering pragmatism to the idea of a species-wide shift in consciousness that is greatly needed for understanding what is currently in process on this planet. ***************************************************************************************************************************************"We are being asked now to rise to the challenge of seeking cognitive freedom over tyranny. This book speaks about personal growth and responsibility in a pragmatic way, and its function is to sow seeds of awareness. To find our cognitive freedom we must first confront the illusions proffered by false narratives and psychological control. The responsibility for one's cognitive advancement now lies in our own hands. The rest is up to the reader to become an aware human being." "Explaining the Shift in Consciousness" lets the reader know that they have a choice to either grow towards a cognitively advanced human being or to keep their consciousness stagnant and programmed. It is time now to break free from a victim mentality and to make a choice to move forward into greater awareness." Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D. - (Author of Healing the Wounded Mind: The Psychosis of the Modern World and the Search for the Self)
What Is Self
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Author : Bernadette Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Sentient+ORM
Release Date : 2005-01-15
What Is Self written by Bernadette Roberts and has been published by Sentient+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The renowned contemporary mystic and author of The Experience of No-Self presents her philosophical treatise on the nature of Self and God. As a Carmelite nun, Bernadette Roberts pursued a life in union with God. She wrote compellingly about her contemplative spiritual journey in her memoirs The Experience of No-Self and The Path of No-Self. Now she builds on the wisdom she gained, exploring the ultimate consciousness that transcends self and experience. In What Is Self?, Ms. Roberts explains her conceptions of the ego, the self, and the revelations of the contemplative life. Deeply personal and profoundly spiritual, this latest effort puts all of Bernadette’s insights into clearer and sharper perspective—as though her own journey has grown clearer with distance.
Consciousness And The Source Of Reality
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Author : Robert G. Jahn
language : en
Publisher: ICRL Press
Release Date : 2011
Consciousness And The Source Of Reality written by Robert G. Jahn and has been published by ICRL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
When Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne first embarked on their exotic scholarly journey more than three decades ago, their aspirations were little higher than to attempt replication of some previously asserted anomalous results that might conceivably impact future engineering practice, either negatively or positively, and to pursue those ramifications to some appropriate extent. But as they followed that tortuous research path deeper into its metaphysical forest, it became clear that far more fundamental epistemological issues were at stake, and far stranger phenomenological creatures were on the prowl, than they had originally envisaged, and that a substantially broader range of intellectual and cultural perspectives would be required to pursue that trek productively. This text is their attempt to record some of the tactics developed, experiences encountered, and understanding acquired on this mist-shrouded exploration, in the hope that their preservation in this format will encourage and enable deeper future scholarly penetrations into the ultimate Source of Reality.