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Chronicles on Consciousness

Author : Debanjan Bhowmik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781638325789
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles on Consciousness written by Debanjan Bhowmik and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the mind emerge from matter? Does an absolute reality exist, independent of any conscious individual? If not, what makes the reality experienced by one individual slightly different from that experienced by the others? As Ary carries out doctoral and post-doctoral research in the sciences and travels back and forth between Calcutta and California for over half a decade, he seeks answers to these questions. In the process, he goes through various experiences: confusion regarding his career path, friendship, love, loneliness, and spiritual bliss. This philosophical novel, which chronicles all these experiences in Ary's life, is unique in the way it combines science with autobiographical fiction to present various original theories on the mind and consciousness.

Chronicles on Consciousness

Author : Debanjan Bhowmik
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1638325790
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles on Consciousness written by Debanjan Bhowmik and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the mind emerge from matter? Does an absolute reality exist, independent of any conscious individual? If not, what makes the reality experienced by one individual slightly different from that experienced by the others? As Ary carries out doctoral and post-doctoral research in the sciences and travels back and forth between Calcutta and California for over half a decade, he seeks answers to these questions. In the process, he goes through various experiences: confusion regarding his career path, friendship, love, loneliness, and spiritual bliss. This philosophical novel, which chronicles all these experiences in Ary’s life, is unique in the way it combines science with autobiographical fiction to present various original theories on the mind and consciousness.

The Anatomy of Consciousness

Author : Robert Blackthorn
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484981511
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Consciousness written by Robert Blackthorn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a sequence of choices. How we make those choices is the key to living a life of bliss. The Anatomy of Consciousness is the blueprint for understanding why we habitually make the life choices that either hinder us or help us grow. The Anatomy of Consciousness utilizes a sys- tem of solar numerology combined with nine primary archetypes to explore the human potential as well as its limitations. These nine archetypes also correspond with nine year life cycles that over time, create the foundation of human learning and conscious evolution. The Anatomy of Consciousness also explores the concept that beyond our archetypal programming is a special part of us called the personal genius. Every human being has a personal genius and by living our lives within that uniqueness is how we break free from the bondage of conformity. Our personal genius is also the expression of our authentic self, which for many of us, is continually hindered by programmed pat- terns of behavior and the imprints of unresolved trauma. Each chapter is designed to help the individual explore their nine archetypal life cycles, and constructively deal with the inhibiting issues that keep them from evolving. The Anatomy of Consciousness is a journey of self-discovery that takes the reader deep into their own subconscious in order to comprehend their archetypal programming and eventually locate, recover, and actualize the blissful state of their authentic self.

The Consciousness Chronicles Volume One

Author : Jack Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520950389
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Consciousness Chronicles Volume One written by Jack Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is VOLUME ONE of The Consciousness Chronicles series. The Consciousness Chronicles recount one man's lifelong and generally solitary journey to ascertain how consciousness interacts with the external world, focusing on the perspective of consciousness as the transcendental creative force binding the unanimity of perceived existentiality, including how we manipulate reality to manifest an infinity of intricate incarnations within our spatial-temporal dimensionality. Pushing the restrictions and rule sets of perceptual existentiality through critical observation, hazardous experience, and resolute exploration of the alternate realities revealed within lucid dreaming and tripping on psychotropic substances, the author found illumination and clarity in the transcendental acts of creativity we innovatively conceptualize, resulting in real manifestations heretofore unknown instantiated from the nascent machinations of our transcendent ultra-conscious imaginings. To augment the reader's comprehension of the innovative concepts herein discussed, the two volumes include 600 color photographs in all.Some philosophers argue consciousness is a unitary concept intuitively understood by the majority of sentient beings, despite the intricacy of trying to define it. Others contend the obvious disagreement about the meaning of the conception of the term suggests either it means different things to different individuals, or it is an umbrella term including a diversity of meanings without verifiable axiomatic elements shared in common. But it does not matter if a consensus about what consciousness truly might be another Holy Grail mankind aspires to achieve with no hope of attainment, because it is something all of us innately possess when we are born into this reality. Consequently, each of us is a living and breathing laboratory equipped with what we require to ascertain what this self-awareness we call consciousness denotes to each of us; assuming one has the aspiration to do something significant with his or her cognizance unconnected to humankind's unrelenting quest to realize love, fame and fortune in lieu of all else. So let us adopt the existential axiom at the outset that your consciousness and mine may or may not be entirely different metaphysically; and instead focus on the degree of consciousness we employ or may conceivably employ during the tenure of our lives within this reality we share. Considering how much we accomplish with the little truly-focused consciousness most of us now expend, try to cognize what we might achieve if we remained 100% conscious during every existential moment of our lives. The possibilities are infinite; and as you will learn, if you are able to suspend your disbelief while reading the volumes of The Consciousness Chronicles, astonishingly mind-bending as well as aberrantly reality-bending. Being conscious does not imply that once in a blue moon we exhibit consciousness within our existentiality. Being truly conscious means the effects of consciousness will be continuously apparent in increasingly more of our interactions with reality each twinkling of the present we exist, because the responsibility of intensified cognizance does not grant us indiscriminate dispensation to pick and choose when it is permissible to be only partially aware.Ultimately, we are not the pawns of reality we fool ourselves into believing; we are essentially the architects. For awake or asleep, what we perceive at any given present instant, we spontaneously assemble from matter and manifest into existence. So there is no reason not to take responsibility for our creations by ensuring we are respectfully expressed and deployed. We should not allow malevolent manifestations to pop extemporaneously into our collective reality. Our godlike responsibility is to presage only potentialities of benevolence and harmony, leaving no place for aberrant malignancies to become apparent or evident.

The Mind Chronicles

Author : Barbara Hand Clow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439612
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Chronicles written by Barbara Hand Clow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of past lives experienced through hypnotic regression • Unlocks the primordial memory bank of planetary consciousness • Explores the past lives of spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow at sacred sites during historical periods critical to the development of human consciousness • With illustrations by Angela Werneke, illustrator of Medicine Cards • First editions collectively sold 60,000 copies Combined for the first time in one updated and revised volume, the three books of The Mind Chronicles Trilogy--Eye of the Centaur, Heart of the Christos, and Signet of Atlantis--show that all the places, times, and beings we have ever known exist now in our memory banks. Using the mind state produced during 100 sessions of hypnotic regression, Barbara Hand Clow unlocks the primordial memory bank--the records of time in which all humans participate--offering readers critical information to reflect upon now. In The Mind Chronicles, Clow guides readers through 100,000 years of human history, using in-depth experiences of initiations and sacred ceremonies to illuminate the forgotten wisdom of our ancestors. She shows that this ancient knowledge, which is contained deep within all of us, is becoming even more relevant as the Mayan Calendar comes to a close and a new stage of evolution begins.

Evolved

Author : Maximilian Werner
Publisher : Torrey House Press
ISBN 13 : 1937226182
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Evolved written by Maximilian Werner and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With startling insights, Werner explores how our Pleistocene instincts inform our everyday decisions and behaviors in this modern day Walden.

Chronicles of Conscience

Author : J. Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Conscience written by J. Calder and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Paradox of Self-consciousness

Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522779
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Self-consciousness written by José Luis Bermúdez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jos� Luis Berm�dez addesses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of fully fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how fully fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human development? Berm�dez argues that a paradox (the paradox of self-consciousness) arises from the apparent strict interdependence between self-conscious thought and linguistic self-reference. The paradox renders circular all theories that define self-consciousness in terms of linguistic mastery of the first-person pronoun. It seems to follow from the paradox of self-consciousness that no such account or explanation can be given. Drawing on recent work in empirical psychology and philosophy, the author argues that any explanation of fully fledged self-consciousness that answers these two questions requires attention to primitive forms of self-consciousness that are prelinguistic and preconceptual. Such primitive forms of self-consciousness are to be found in somatic proprioception, the structure of exteroceptive perception, and prelinguistic forms of social interaction. The author uses these primitive forms of self-consciousness to dissolve the paradox of self-consciousness and to show how the two questions can be given an affirmative answer.

Information—Consciousness—Reality

Author : James B. Glattfelder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030036332
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Information—Consciousness—Reality written by James B. Glattfelder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discovering the gift of technology. Today, however, our island of knowledge is surrounded by ever longer shores of ignorance. Science appears to have hit a dead end when confronted with the nature of reality and consciousness. In this fascinating and accessible volume, James Glattfelder explores a radical paradigm shift uncovering the ontology of reality. It is found to be information-theoretic and participatory, yielding a computational and programmable universe.

Mind and Cosmos

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199919755
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Mind and Cosmos written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

The Roots of consciousness

Author : Jeffrey Mishlove
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345361318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of consciousness written by Jeffrey Mishlove and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Consciousness Chronicles Volume Two

Author : Jack Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520950402
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Consciousness Chronicles Volume Two written by Jack Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is VOLUME TWO of The Consciousness Chronicles series. The Consciousness Chronicles recount one man's lifelong and generally solitary journey to ascertain how consciousness interacts with the external world, focusing on the perspective of consciousness as the transcendental creative force binding the unanimity of perceived existentiality, including how we manipulate reality to manifest an infinity of intricate incarnations within our spatial-temporal dimensionality. Pushing the restrictions and rule sets of perceptual existentiality through critical observation, hazardous experience, and resolute exploration of the alternate realities revealed within lucid dreaming and tripping on psychotropic substances, the author found illumination and clarity in the transcendental acts of creativity we innovatively conceptualize, resulting in real manifestations heretofore unknown instantiated from the nascent machinations of our transcendent ultra-conscious imaginings. To augment the reader's comprehension of the innovative concepts herein discussed, the two volumes include 600 color photographs in all.Some philosophers argue consciousness is a unitary concept intuitively understood by the majority of sentient beings, despite the intricacy of trying to define it. Others contend the obvious disagreement about the meaning of the conception of the term suggests either it means different things to different individuals, or it is an umbrella term including a diversity of meanings without verifiable axiomatic elements shared in common. But it does not matter if a consensus about what consciousness truly might be another Holy Grail mankind aspires to achieve with no hope of attainment, because it is something all of us innately possess when we are born into this reality. Consequently, each of us is a living and breathing laboratory equipped with what we require to ascertain what this self-awareness we call consciousness denotes to each of us; assuming one has the aspiration to do something significant with his or her cognizance unconnected to humankind's unrelenting quest to realize love, fame and fortune in lieu of all else. So let us adopt the existential axiom at the outset that your consciousness and mine may or may not be entirely different metaphysically; and instead focus on the degree of consciousness we employ or may conceivably employ during the tenure of our lives within this reality we share. Considering how much we accomplish with the little truly-focused consciousness most of us now expend, try to cognize what we might achieve if we remained 100% conscious during every existential moment of our lives. The possibilities are infinite; and as you will learn, if you are able to suspend your disbelief while reading the volumes of The Consciousness Chronicles, astonishingly mind-bending as well as aberrantly reality-bending. Being conscious does not imply that once in a blue moon we exhibit consciousness within our existentiality. Being truly conscious means the effects of consciousness will be continuously apparent in increasingly more of our interactions with reality each twinkling of the present we exist, because the responsibility of intensified cognizance does not grant us indiscriminate dispensation to pick and choose when it is permissible to be only partially aware.Ultimately, we are not the pawns of reality we fool ourselves into believing; we are essentially the architects. For awake or asleep, what we perceive at any given present instant, we spontaneously assemble from matter and manifest into existence. So there is no reason not to take responsibility for our creations by ensuring we are respectfully expressed and deployed. We should not allow malevolent manifestations to pop extemporaneously into our collective reality. Our godlike responsibility is to presage only potentialities of benevolence and harmony, leaving no place for aberrant malignancies to become apparent or evident.

How to Change Your Mind

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224153
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book How to Change Your Mind written by Michael Pollan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now on Netflix as a 4-part documentary series! “Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374100764
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh written by Susan Sontag and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes begins in the middle of the 1960s and traces Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world to renowned critic.

Twisted

Author : Bert Ashe
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572847492
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Twisted written by Bert Ashe and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks with Ashe's own mid-life journey to lock his hair. Ashe is a fresh, new voice that addresses the importance of black hair in the 20th and 21st centuries through an accessible, humorous, and literary style sure to engage a wide variety of readers. After leading a far-too-conventional life for forty years, Ashe began a long, arduous, uncertain process of locking his own hair in an attempt to step out of American convention. Black hair, after all, matters. Few Americans are subject to snap judgements like those in the African-American community, and fewer communities face such loaded criticism about their appearances, in particular their hair. Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles makes the argument that the story of dreadlocks in America can’t be told except in front of the backdrop of black hair in America. Ask most Americans about dreadlocks and they immediately conjure a picture of Bob Marley: on stage, mid-song, dreads splayed. When most Americans see dreadlocks, a range of assumptions quickly follow: he's Jamaican, he's Rasta, he plays reggae; he stinks, he smokes, he deals; he's bohemian, he's creative, he's counter-cultural. Few styles in America have more symbolism and generate more conflicting views than dreadlocks. To "read" dreadlocks is to take the cultural pulse of America. To read Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles is to understand a larger story about the truths and biases present in how we perceive ourselves and others. Ashe's riveting and intimate work, a genuine first of its kind, will be a seminal work for years to come.

Chronicles from the Future

Author : Paul Amadeus Dienach
Publisher : This Way Out Productions
ISBN 13 : 9786188221819
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles from the Future written by Paul Amadeus Dienach and published by This Way Out Productions. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health, falls into a one-year-long coma. During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another man in 3906 A.D. When Dienach awakens from his coma, he finds himself back in 1922. Knowing that he doesn't have much time left, he writes a diary, recording whatever he could remember from his amazing experience: the mankind's history in the forthcoming centuries, from the nightmare of overpopulation and World Wars up until the world-changing globalisation, the radical new administration system, the colony on Mars and the next human evolutionary stage. Without any close friends and relatives to entrust, he doesn't say a word to anyone out of fear of being branded a lunatic. Before he dies, he hands his diary to his favourite student, George Papachatzis, later prominent Professor of Law and Rector of Panteion University of Greece.The diary circulates as hidden knowledge amongst high ranking masons in the lodges of Athens. In 1972, professor Papachatzis, despite an intense dispute, decides to publish Dienach's diary in Greek. Paul Dienach was not an author, poet, or professional writer. Rather, he was an ordinary man who kept a journal, never with the expectation that it would be published. This unique and controversial book, a universal legacy, is now carefully edited, translated and available to everyone. This is the history of our future! We deliver it to you."

Chronicles in Stone

Author : Victoria Donovan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747886
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles in Stone written by Victoria Donovan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. Combining detailed archival research, participant observation and oral history work, it explores the transformation of three northwestern Russian towns from provincial backwaters into the symbolic homelands of the Soviet and Russian nations. The book's central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people's genius, heroism and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945. Through sustained engagement with local voices, it reveals the ways these narratives were internalized, revised, and resisted by the communities living in the region. Donovan provides an alternative lens through which to view the rise of Russian patriotic consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, adding a valuable regional dimension to our knowledge of Russian nation building and identity politics.