CIIS Faculty Publications
Title
Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness
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Description
Consciousness is explored as a living stream of lucid experience composed of the essence of the moments of our lives. Grounded in Ken Wilber's model, consciousness is explained from many points of view: its historical evolution, its growth in the individual, its mystical dimensions, and the meaning of enlightenment.
ISBN
1557788839
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
Paragon House
City
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Keywords
Consciousness
Disciplines
Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy of Mind
Recommended Citation
Combs, Allan, "Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness" (2009). CIIS Faculty Publications. 24.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/24
Comments
Consciousness Explained Better represents thousands of years of humanity's struggle to understand consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives. It is an up-to-date digest of the search in bite-sized chapters:
Foreword -- Introduction -- A word worn smooth -- Never at rest -- Four streams of experience -- From one great blooming, buzzing confusion -- The adult mind -- States and structures of consciousness -- The hierarchy of minds -- Horizontal and vertical evolution of consciousness -- The many faces of integral consciousness.