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Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness

Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness

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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

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.

Consciousness Explained Better: Towards an Integral Understanding of the Multifaceted Nature of Consciousness

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