The elephant and the blind : philosophy, science, and 500+ experiential reports / / Thomas Metzinger

• Autore: Metzinger Thomas <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (705 pages)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetto topico: Consciousness
• Nota di contenuto: 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The elephant and the blind
• ISBN: 0-262-37728-4; 0-262-37729-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910901888703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II