02405oam 22004452 450 991090188870332120240123140657.60-262-37728-40-262-37729-2(CKB)29838398300041(MiAaPQ)EBC30534875(Au-PeEL)EBL30534875(OCoLC)1417760281(OCoLC)1396081625(OCoLC-P)1396081625(MaCbMITP)15196(EXLCZ)992983839830004120230427d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe elephant and the blind philosophy, science, and 500+ experiential reports /Thomas Metzinger1st ed.Cambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2024]1 online resource (705 pages)9780262547109 Relaxation -- Peace -- Silence -- Wakefulness -- Clarity -- Density -- Soundness -- Non-identification -- Suchness -- Presence -- Connectedness -- The most natural state -- Coming home -- There is nothing left to do -- Joy, awe, bliss, and gratitude -- Simplicity, nothingness, and absence -- Emptiness and fullness -- Luminosity -- Witnessing -- Pure awareness during dreamless deep sleep -- Pure awareness and lucid dreaming -- From timelessness to timeless change -- Space without structure, center, or periphery -- Bodiless body-experience -- Ego dissolution: melting into the phenomenal field -- Nondual being: unity -- Nondual awareness: insight -- Transparency, translucency, and virtuality -- The true self -- Pure awareness knows itself -- It is not an experience -- Meditation and nonmeditation -- Timeless continuity -- The elephant: what is pure awareness?"The Elephant and the Blind is a book about why we need a new culture of consciousness, and how to get it. A culture of consciousness (or Bewusstseinskultur) is a culture that values and cultivates the mental states of its members in an ethical and evidence-based way"--Provided by publisher.ConsciousnessConsciousness.153Metzinger Thomas1958-473314OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910901888703321The elephant and the blind4273239UNINA