Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness
Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2012
384 pages
978-1-58394-517-9 (ISBN)
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A diverse group of authors journey into the fringes of human consciousness, tackling psychic and paranormal phenomena, lucid dreaming, synchronistic encounters, and more. Collected from the online magazine Reality Sandwich, these essays explore regions of the mind often traversed by shamans, mystics, and visionary artists; adjacent and contiguous to our normal waking state, these realms may be encountered in dreams or out-of-body experiences, accessed through meditation or plant medicines, and marked by psychic phenomena and uncanny synchronicities. From demons encountered in sleep paralysis visions to psychic research conducted by the CIA, the seemingly disparate topics covered here congeal to form a larger picture of what these extraordinary states of consciousness might have to tell us about the nature of reality itself.
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Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
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Daniel Pinchbeck is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich and cofounder of Evolver.net. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, among other works.
Ken Jordan is the publisher and executive producer of Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net and has written for Wired, Index, and The Paris Review. Pinchbeck and Jordan have coedited two other anthologies, Toward 2012 and What Comes After Money? Both live in New York City.
Ken Jordan is the publisher and executive producer of Reality Sandwich and Evolver.net and has written for Wired, Index, and The Paris Review. Pinchbeck and Jordan have coedited two other anthologies, Toward 2012 and What Comes After Money? Both live in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Exploring the Edge Realms Of Consciousness: An Introduction: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Part 1: Of Minds and Molecules
- 1. Syllable and Sound: -Michael Taussig
- 2. Into the Quantum Realm: -James Oroc
- 3. Divine Mothership of Trance: Boom 2010: -Graham St John
- Part 2: Adventures into the Psyche
- 4. Seeing into the Unseen: A Personal Journey of Discovery: -Timothy Wyllie
- 5. Do You See What I See? Memoirs of a Blind Biker: -Russell Targ
- 6. The Jhanas: Or, When Every Mystical State You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: -Jay Michaelson
- 7. Diamond Solitaire: Washing Beets with God: -Erik Davis
- Part 3: Science of the Psyche
- 8. On Anthropological Approaches to Anomalous Phenomena: Explorations in the Science of Magic and the Narrative Structure of Paranormal Experiences: -David Metcalfe
- 9. Psiverts and Psychic Piracy: The Future of Parapsychology?: -David Luke
- 10. What Gorilla? Why Some Can't See Psychic Phenomena: -Dean Radin
- Part 4: Visions in Night and Darkness
- 11. Eye Spirits: Visions of the Blind: -Paul Devereux
- 12. Meeting in the Dream World: Oneironauticum: -Jennifer Dumpert
- 13. Lucid Dreaming: -Paul Levy
- 14. Shattering Subconscious Isolation: Inception, Lucid Dreaming and the Collective Unconscious: -Robert Waggoner
- 15. Layers of Illusion: Manifesting Astral Body, Dream, and Lucidity: -Anthony Peake
- 16. Sleep Paralysis Visions: Demons, Succubi, and the Archetypal Mind: -Ryan Hurd
- Part 5: Synchromysticism
- 17. Universal Feedback and Reality as Remix: -Jennifer Palmer
- 18. Chaos, Synchronicity, and the Technology of Magic: -Tony Vigorito
- 19. Synchronicity and Emergent Self-Organization: -Simon G. Powell
- Part 6: Shamanic Operations
- 20. Homo Luminous: The New Human: -Alberto Villoldo
- 21. Journey Through a Cosmic Portal: A Serpent Ladder: -Franklin LaVoie
- 22. Into the Green Underworld: -Daenin Tejeda
- 23. Prolegomena to a Guide for the Emerging Yoga Shaman: -Allowah
- Part 7: Thought at the Periphery
- 24. Super Free Will: Metaprogramming and the Quantum Observer: -Paul Hughes
- 25. The Virtues of Being an Object: Touch, Pornography, and Having Bodies: -Conner Habib
- 26. Virtual Reality and Hallucination: -Diana Reed Slattery
- 27. Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain?: -Chris Carter
- Notes
- Contributors
- About the Editors
- Rights and Permissions
