Black Culture and Black Consciousness Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Levine, Lawrence W
pdf | 61.65 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B000UDAOYO | Author: Levine, Lawrence W | Year: 1978

Seeds of Consciousness: The Wisdom of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj By Nisargadatta Maharaj; Jean Dunn
1997 | 215 Pages | ISBN: 0893860255 | PDF | 16 MB
Seeds of Consciousness is the first of three books edited by Jean Dunn, which are wholly taken from daily Talks given by Nisargadatta Maharaj at his Bombay apartment during 1979 and 1980. Books of this type have been prepared by other editors, all of whom used the same group of English translators, but Dunn (a disciple for many years) has selected the clearest talks, least burdened with technical Hindu pointers.

Chaos Theory And The Evolution Of Consciousness And Mind
pdf | 1.21 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B00C4GU8NC | Author: Rupert Sheldrake | Year: 2013

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198867239 | 141 pages | True PDF | 6.18 MB
When Alice stepped through the looking-glass, she encountered a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. Reflecting on the inception of consciousness, it is natural to suppose that there are just two alternatives. Either consciousness appeared in living beings suddenly, like a light switch turning on, or it appeared gradually,
like the biological development of life itself, through borderline cases which became the collective experience over time. For the former theory, consciousness is an on/off matter, but once it was there it became richer over time, like a beam of light becoming brighter and broader in its sweep. For

From Perception to Consciousness: Searching with Anne Treisman By Jeremy Wolfe, Lynn Robertson
2012 | 439 Pages | ISBN: 019973433X | PDF | 12 MB
Anyone interested in the study of attention will have had some exposure to the work of Anne Treisman. Anne Treisman has been one of the most influential cognitive psychologists in the last 50 years. Her research and theoretical insights have influenced a variety of disciplines, including vision sciences, auditory sciences, cognitive psychology, cognitive neurosciences, philosophy, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology. She is best known for her work on attention. Early in her career, much of that work involved auditory stimuli. Her later work has been primarily in the realm of visual attention. She has been especially concerned with the interactions among visual perception, attention, and memory as they relate to conscious and unconscious experience. Her Feature Integration Theory has been one of the organizing ideas in the field for three decades.While still a graduate student at Oxford, she helped launch the modern study of attention. In the present volume, several of her most influential papers are reprinted (including some of the harder to find early work). To accompany these reprints, the editors invited experts to comment and/or to show how their own work had been shaped by Treisman's ideas and findings. The result is a scientifically rich ride through the world of ideas inspired by Treisman's work. The contributed chapters include discussions of auditory and visual attention, the role of features in selection, parallel and serial processing, and automaticity. They describe the roots and evolution of Feature Integration Theory and related models like Guided Search. They explore the interactions of attention and perception at the cognitive, neuropsychological, and biological levels. Readers can consider the critical role of binding in perception, the role of attention in scene perception, as well as the influence of cognitive load, memory, reflection, and perceptual learning on early and late processing. They will see how methods to study conscious perceptual awareness have evolved over the years.

The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe By Richard Smoley
2009 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1577316444 | PDF | 2 MB
In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason. In the process, he shows that consciousness is the underlying reality beneath everything in the universe.In one of Hinduism's great myths, Shiva plays a dice game with his consort, Parvati, and loses consistently. If he is the greatest god, why does he lose? Through this story, Richard Smoley explores the interplay between consciousness, represented by Shiva, and experience, exemplified by Parvati. He draws on numerous disciplines to offer an illuminating exploration of mind and matter and a provocative understanding of consciousness, the self, and the world.

Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
English | Size: 953.89 MB
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Owen J Flanagan Consciousness Reconsidered
pdf | 33.72 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08J89T8SV | Author: Owen J. Flanagan | Year: 2020

Developing Magical Consciousness - A Theoretical and Practical Guide for the Expansion of Perception
pdf | 19.78 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1138078697 | Author: Susan Greenwood | Year: 2019

Susan Greenwood, "Developing Magical Consciousness: A Theoretical and Practical Guide for the Expansion of Perception"
English | ISBN: 1138078697 | 2019 | 226 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Offering a new template for future exploration, Susan Greenwood examines and develops the notion that the experience of magic is a panhuman orientation of consciousness, a form of knowledge largely marginalized in Western societies.