9780262511094
Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
James H. Austin
ISBN 13: 9780262511094
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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The book uses Zen Buddhism as the opening wedge for an extraordinarily wide-ranging exploration of consciousness. In order to understand the brain mechanisms that produce Zen states, one needs some understanding of the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain. Austin, a neuroscientist and Zen practitioner, interweaves his teachings of the brain with his teachings/personal narrative of Zen. The science, which contains the latest relevant developments in brain research, is both inclusive and rigorous; the Zen sections are clear and evocative. Along the way, Austin covers such topics as similar states in other disciplines and religions, sleep and dreams, madness, consciousness-altering drugs, and the social consequences of advanced stages of enlightenment.
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"This singular book, clearly a work of love undertaken over many years, may well become something of a landmark in both behavioral neurology and consciousness studies. For one thing, it is a compendium of almost all the available scientific literature on meditation. For another, it is a first-rate in-depth introduction to functional neuroanatomy, provided in an imaginative and readable way. It is also a personal narrative of a Zen training It is a long, dense book, a full 697 pages, with a 112 page bibliography, but it seems to stand off to the side from all the clamoring about the Hard Problem and the explanatory gap. It offers many testable ideas about the nature of spiritual experience as a brain state, and it offers a clear theory of how some altered states of consciousness come into being."
George Adelman
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