Offers readers an insightful and easy-to-understand exploration of consciousness in its many facets and forms. This title examines human consciousness from a wide range of view-points - its historical evolution, its growth in the individual, its mystical dimensions, and the meaning of enlightenment. Num Pages: 300 pages, b&w photos & illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Consciousness Explained Better
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1557788839
ISBN 13: 9781557788832
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Consciousness Explained Better is a unique contribution. This compact volume 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. Allan Combs has managed to encapsulate and synthesize vast bodies of thought and research without dilution. He has made even the most mind-twisting arguments and questions comprehensible, and he has brought forward scholarship and rigorous inquiry in language that speaks to the heart as well as the head. This book satisfies with its comprehensiveness yet intrigues with all that still remains enigmatic. It brings forward the yearning, the brilliance, the awe, and the outrageous audacity of our search to understand conscious. It reminds us that, in a world where much of our lives on a mundane basis has been reduced to the trivial, the logistical, and the manageable, everything about that world and about ourselves is still completely beyond our grasp. We still live and move in the Great Mystery. --From the Foreword by Jenny Wade, author of Changes of Mind and Transcendent Sex

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Allan Combs teaches at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and The Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. He is the author of over fifty articles, chapters, and books on consciousness and the brain. His recent books include Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster with Mark Holland. He is the cofounder of The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and belongs to the 100-member Club of Budapest.

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