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Consciousness quest : where East meets West : on mind, meditation, and neural correlates /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Das, J. P.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by K. Ramakrishna Rao
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Concept of consciousness and Indian theories of mind
  • Cognition, neuropsychology, and consciousness
  • Experience of consciousness : eastern phenomenology
  • Explanations from neuroscience
  • Consciousness and meditation : at the intersection of eastern traditions
  • And neuroscience
  • Foundations of mindfulness
  • Interpretations of mindfulness
  • A comparison of two cognitive processing models : the Abhidhamma and PASS
  • Contemporary western research : from Julian Jaynes to Eckhart Tolle
  • Talking about consciousness, self-knowledge, access, and sentience
  • Materialism and behaviorism in eastern philosophy and western psychology
  • Material basis of consciousness
  • Origin and uses of consciousness : in the beginning is its end
  • Hard problems : legacy of ancient times
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.