Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download literature-and-the-evolution-of-consciousness full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online literature-and-the-evolution-of-consciousness ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Kishor Gandhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Evolution of Consciousness written by Kishor Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kishor Gandhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Evolution of Consciousness written by Kishor Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Hall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365459361
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (593 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Consciousness (Classic Reprint) written by Leonard Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Evolution of Consciousness Thus, in the social community, currents of motion pass from one member of the community to another, producing the effect of consciousness on each member as it passes along. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard Maurice Bucke
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498036788
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Cosmic Consciousness written by Richard Maurice Bucke and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.
Author : Leonard Hall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440090578
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Consciousness written by Leonard Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Evolution of Consciousness In the following pages I have attempted to trace the evolution of consciousness from the simplest kind of consciousness manifested in animal life to the complex consciousness of man. The only kinds of human consciousness which arc here excluded from consideration are deductive reasoning and some of the higher emotions. It is hoped to take up these subjects, or at least the former of them, in a future publication. An introductory chapter is devoted to a brief consideration of a theory of the nature of man which I have propounded more fully elsewhere. It may be as well to state, however, that the reasoning in the subsequent chapters, although it touches on this theory here and there in one or two minor points, is for the most part independent of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Hurrell Crook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Human Consciousness written by John Hurrell Crook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crook has an extensive range of interests and writes with authority on the whole sociobiological spectrum. He discusses the behavior of insects, birds, primates, and so forth, with impressive thoroughness and detail. He ... introduces an equally expert and apparently firsthand discussion of Eastern philosophy, especially Zen Buddhism. His purpose is to emphasize the duality, or perhaps multiplicity, of consciousness, and the importance of society's more objective facets. A scholarly work complete with excellent bibliographies, index, and references." --Choice
Author : Roger Briggs
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620238837
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Emerging World: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Future of Humanity written by Roger Briggs and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is there so much chaos and suffering in the world today? Are we sliding towards dystopia and perhaps extinction, or is there hope for a better future? What happened in the human lineage over the last three million years that made us into a near-geologic force capable of altering the face of our planet and threatening our own existence? In Emerging World, Roger Briggs explores the evolution of consciousness and shows that this is behind everything humans have done, are now doing, and are capable of in the future. By bringing together the best knowledge from paleoanthropology, cultural philosophy, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary theory, Briggs makes the case that humanity is now on the verge of a major transformation, a monumental turning point in our story. Foreseen by many sages and scholars, this anticipated leap promises a new era of history and culture, and a new civilization on Earth in which the needs of all people are met and we become stewards of our living planet. Yet this is by no means guaranteed. Emerging World offers a new understanding of our crisis today and points the way to a bright future for humanity and life on our planet.
Author : Todd E. Feinberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262534606
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Origins of Consciousness written by Todd E. Feinberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious. How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific findings to answer these questions—and to tackle the most fundamental question about the nature of consciousness: how does the material brain create subjective experience? After assembling a list of the biological and neurobiological features that seem responsible for consciousness, and considering the fossil record of evolution, Feinberg and Mallatt argue that consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed. About 520 to 560 million years ago, they explain, the great “Cambrian explosion” of animal diversity produced the first complex brains, which were accompanied by the first appearance of consciousness; simple reflexive behaviors evolved into a unified inner world of subjective experiences. From this they deduce that all vertebrates are and have always been conscious—not just humans and other mammals, but also every fish, reptile, amphibian, and bird. Considering invertebrates, they find that arthropods (including insects and probably crustaceans) and cephalopods (including the octopus) meet many of the criteria for consciousness. The obvious and conventional wisdom–shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago. Combining evolutionary, neurobiological, and philosophical approaches allows Feinberg and Mallatt to offer an original solution to the “hard problem” of consciousness.
Author : Barbara Marx Hubbard
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577312813
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Conscious Evolution written by Barbara Marx Hubbard and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlining the new worldview of conscious evolution, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard has written a call to action for our current generation to fulfill its creative potential. She defines conscious evolution as “the awareness that humans have gained the power to affect our own evolution,” and she asserts that we must quickly become capable of wise and ethical guidance of evolution itself, if life on earth is to survive. Only in the last fifty years have we gained the scientific and technological power to destroy or enhance the planet's life-support system. Our generation has the ability to abuse or conserve these powers — to act, in a way, as “co-creator.” Conscious Evolution reveals the “path of the co-creator” — born out of these powers and society's new spirituality — and discusses the tools and opportunities that each of us has to fully participate in this exciting stage in history.
Author : Andrew Lohrey
Publisher : Icrl Press
ISBN 13 : 9781936033324
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Consciousness written by Andrew Lohrey and published by Icrl Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Consciousness begins to set an agenda for science to include consciousness. This program may well result in making redundant many of the cherished assumptions of mechanical science. When consciousness is considered, for example, the standard fiction that space and time are physical features of an independent universe is seen for what it is: an illusion. Both are features of universal consciousness. The universe is not full of information, as many scientists have thought, but full of the relations of Meaning. This book demonstrates how humans have seven ways to see and make meaning of the world. These represent the steps in the evolution of consciousness as well as the developmental phases in each person's spiritual path. ..". a bravura achievement and a poke in the eye for uncompromising materialism..." -- Larry Dossey, author of One Mind "Andrew Lohrey makes some astounding observations in this remarkably clear book." -- Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Adelaide Andrew Lohrey has a PhD in Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney. His doctoral thesis, The Meaning of Consciousness, was published by the University of Michigan Press. He has contributed to several books, including Bridging Science and Spirituality, and has written papers on consciousness and meaning for a range of journals. He has four daughters and lives on the east coast of Tasmania with his wife, the writer Amanda Lohrey.
Author : Merlin Donald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393049503
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)
Download or read book A Mind So Rare written by Merlin Donald and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald (psychology, Queen's University, Canada) challenges the prevailing view that seeks to explain away human consciousness and presents a theory on the origins of the modern mind. He describes the cultural and neuronal forces that power human modes of awareness, and proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of the interweaving of the brain with an invisible symbolic web of culture to form a "distributed" cognitive network. Using evidence from brain and behavioral studies of humans and animals, he explains how an expansion of consciousness transcends the limitations of the mammalian mind, and elaborates the foundations of self-evaluation and self-reflection. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Veronica Vogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649525437
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Human Consciousness written by Veronica Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unconventional book is being written with the highest intention to awaken the consciousness of all humanity and that it will help us speed up in the path of human evolution.We are to include our feelings and our emotions and with open minds to be our guide in this process. All the information in this book needs to be approached in this manner!A sudden realization came that this book was there all along, and it was just waiting to be written when the highest awareness was there!
Author : Richard M. Bucke
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605200182
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Cosmic Consciousness written by Richard M. Bucke and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildly arrogant, stunningly bombastic, and undeniably fascinating. This 1901 work-the masterpiece of an eclectic genius whose life encompassed medical science, mystical transcendence, and prospecting for gold-posits a higher form of sentience that only a few humans have ever achieved, among them Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Dante, William Blake, and the author himself, of course. As Bucke shares his metaphysical experience of the "cosmic consciousness" and offers evidence for the few instances in history of its occurrence ("it may as well be frankly stated at once that the view of the present editor is that Francis Bacon wrote the 'Shakespeare' plays and poems"), the reader may well be moved to throw this bizarre and highly intriguing book furiously across the room... if the reader can put it down at all, that is. Canadian mystic and doctor RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE (1837-1902) was a pioneer in the medical treatment of mental illness; his famous friendship with Walt Whitman was the subject of the 1992 movie Beautiful Dreamers. He also wrote Man's Moral Nature (1879) and an 1883 authorized biography of Whitman.
Author : Shirley Sugerman
Publisher : Polarity Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597311168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Evolution of Consciousness written by Shirley Sugerman and published by Polarity Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of articles offered as a festschrift to Owen Barfield on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333741801
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Coming Into Being written by William Irwin Thompson and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of consciousness from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings, to the writings of Marcel Proust, around the monumental wrappings of Christo and up to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.
Author : Nicholas Humphrey
Publisher : Copernicus
ISBN 13 : 9781441985446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)
Download or read book A History of the Mind written by Nicholas Humphrey and published by Copernicus. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey argues that raw sensations are central to all conscious states and that consciousness must have evolved, just like all other mental faculties, over time from our ancestors'bodily responses to pain and pleasure. "Humphrey is one of that growing band of scientists who beat literary folk at their own game"-RICHARD DAWKINS "A wonderful bookbrilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely through the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems offering a feast of provocative ideas." -DANIEL DENNETT
