Head Trip Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness

Name: Head Trip Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
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ISBN: 9781400064847

ISBN-10: 1400064848

ISBN-13: 9781400064847

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jeff Warren, Jeff Warren

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A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us–and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately in bits and pieces yet understands in its totality scarcely at all. Tied to the body and the brain, consciousness is nonetheless beyond our ability to measure or quantify. Despite the attempts of scientists and mystics, poets and dreamers, crackpots and geniuses, to map its contours and explain its secret workings, the mind remains mysterious. And the more we learn about it, the more mysterious it becomes. But that is not to say that we know nothing about consciousness. In fact, as gonzo science journalist Jeff…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Jeff Warren studied literature at McGill University, Canada. Head Trip emerged out of two radio documentaries he wrote and produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on sleep and dreaming. Jeff lives in Toronto. For more information, see www.headtrip.ca.



Author's Note


Introduction


Trip Notes: The Wheel of Consciousness



Night



The Hypnagogic


Trip Notes: The Slow Wave



The Watch


Trip Notes: The REM Dream



The Lucid Dream



Day


Trip Notes: The Hypnopompic



The Trance


Trip Notes: The Daydream



The SMR


Trip Notes: The Zone



The Pure Conscious Event


Conclusion: Emergence


Epilogue: A Phenomenological Map of Consciousness



Variations of Consciousness Special Effects


Notes and Sources


Select Bibliography


Index