03375cam a2200445 4500 1993246777 TxAuBib 20250104120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781666688733 1666688738 cb246e39-ccc8-41fe-836c-7d6cf47ca73c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11368792 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Miskovic, Vladimir. Dreaming Reality [Libby Audiobook] : How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness. Dreamscape Media, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 385MB. psychedelic experiences. neuroscience challenges. sensory deprivation. mystical traditions. effects of prayer. altered states. transcendence. consciousness. Neuroscience. meditation. ego death. Buddhism. HTML:<p><strong>A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experiences to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.</strong></p> <p>We are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show that this way of thinking is both limited and an obstacle to understanding consciousness. In Dreaming Reality, Miskovic and Lynn connect the latest findings from neuroscience?which studies the brain from the outside in, as a purely physical object?to the insights of the world's mystical traditions, which chart elaborate cartographies of the mind from inside out through experiences of meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. We can tackle the biggest questions surrounding the nature of consciousness when we place objective scientific research alongside the phenomenology of "altered" states.</p> <p>Dreaming Reality offers a rich synthesis of brains and minds, new and old, that challenges many cherished notions of how we experience our worlds and selves. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, Miskovic and Lynn take this only as the starting point of a progressive disentanglement of consciousness. Delving into Buddhism, Vedanta, and Christian mysticism, they find that we have much to learn from dreams, hallucinations, visionary states, ego death, mind wandering, sensory deprivation, psychedelic experimentation, meditation, and minimal phenomenal experiences of consciousness.</p> <p>Each chapter brings us closer to understanding how we dream reality into existence and how we might transcend impoverished materialist models, whose unacknowledged effect is to drive us toward nihilism. Instead, we arrive at a model of consciousness that is more capacious and compassionate than biological sciences alone can imagine.</p>. Religion & Spirituality. Psychology. Nonfiction. Science. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-03-04 20:00:03. Lynn, Steven Jay. Lockford, Lesa, 1958- https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=cb246e39-ccc8-41fe-836c-7d6cf47ca73c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)