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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness
Millions of readers of Carlos Castaneda books have long enjoyed the
fantastic teachings of don Juan Matus, the Yaqui shaman from
northern Mexico. Now, thanks to the practical techniques based on
Castaneda's writings offered here by author Victor Sanchez--the
body as a field of energy, the not-doings of the personal self,
stopping the internal dialogue, the magic of attention, setting up
dreaming, the warrior's greatest love, and more--you can apply
these teachings to your everyday life.
'Wide ranging, backed by science and research, informative and easy
to understand, this is a great book for the sleep-deprived' Lisa
Artis, The Sleep Council When was the last time you had a proper
night's sleep? In today's fast-paced, non-stop world, research by
the UK's Sleep Council has found that almost a third of us don't
get enough sleep most nights. Insomnia can wreak havoc on everyday
life - leaving us feeling exhausted, irritable and unwell. Lack of
sleep has also been linked to a whole host of long-term chronic
conditions including Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high
blood pressure, obesity and depression. But don't despair - help is
at hand! This book is packed with easy to read and simple to follow
tips, as well as some weird and wonderful tricks, all gathered from
expert scientific research, that will help you fall asleep and stay
asleep. You may be surprised to learn that everything from having a
purpose in life to warming your feet, from what you eat through the
day to how you breathe, from how much time you spend outdoors to
reframing your thoughts and mindset can all help you get a better
night's rest. A good night's sleep can help change your life for
the better, and this book will help you to achieve it.
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive,
appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a
predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us
can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and
consider ourselves "unmusical." This volume offers
interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive,
appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology,
neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology,
and other fields consider what music is for and why every human
culture has it; whether musicality is a uniquely human capacity;
and what biological and cognitive mechanisms underlie it.
Contributors outline a research program in musicality, and discuss
issues in studying the evolution of music; consider principles,
constraints, and theories of origins; review musicality from
cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain perspectives;
discuss the computational modeling of animal song and creativity;
and offer a historical context for the study of musicality. The
volume aims to identify the basic neurocognitive mechanisms that
constitute musicality (and effective ways to study these in human
and nonhuman animals) and to develop a method for analyzing musical
phenotypes that point to the biological basis of musicality.
Contributors Jorge L. Armony, Judith Becker, Simon E. Fisher, W.
Tecumseh Fitch, Bruno Gingras, Jessica Grahn, Yuko Hattori, Marisa
Hoeschele, Henkjan Honing, David Huron, Dieuwke Hupkes, Yukiko
Kikuchi, Julia Kursell, Marie-Elaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Bjoern
Merker, Iain Morley, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, Martin
Rohrmeier, Constance Scharff, Carel ten Cate, Laurel J. Trainor,
Sandra E. Trehub, Peter Tyack, Dominique Vuvan, Geraint Wiggins,
Willem Zuidema
What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How
does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The
simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the
sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that
we do. Examining representations of coma and brain injury across a
variety of texts, this book investigates common tropes and
linguistic devices used to portray the medical condition of coma,
giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in the
public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent,
or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives
of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through
writing groups he has run over the last 10 years. Discussing a
diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh,
Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film
and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The
Walking Dead, Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination
with coma. With a proliferation of misleading stories of survival
in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential
impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its
victims.
Conversations on Consciousness is just that - a series of twenty
lively and challenging conversations between Sue Blackmore and some
of the world's leading philosophers and scientists. Written in a
colloquial and engaging style, the book records the conversations
Sue had when she met these influential thinkers, whether at
conferences in Arizona or Antwerp, or in their labs or homes in
Oxford or San Diego. The conversations bring out their very
different personalities and styles and reveal a wealth of
fascinating detail about their theories and beliefs. Why is
consciousness such a special and difficult issue for twenty-first
century science? Sue, herself a researcher into this controversial
and difficult topic, begins by asking each of her colleagues this
simple question and is immediately plunged into the depths of the
debate: how do the subjective experiences we call consciousness
arise from the physical brain? Is this even the right question to
ask? Can zombies - people who behave outwardly just like others but
have no inner mental life - exist? What can dreams tell us about
consciousness? Should we all be learning to meditate?Do we have
free will, and if not is it possible to live without it? With an
introduction setting out the broad structure of the debate on
consciousness, and an extensive glossary, this book provides an
engaging and accessible account of the most challenging problem of
all, through the words of some of the leading figures involved in
seeking to solve it.
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