E-Book: The Roots of Consciousness

The Roots of Consciousness
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD

Contents
INTRODUCTION
Dedication
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction to Revised Edition

• We Are All Ourselves
  

Introduction to the Original Edition

SECTION I: THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORATION
Shamanistic Traditions
Ancient Mesopotamia

• Dream Portents
  

Ancient India

• The Language of Consciousness
  
• The Discipline of Yoga
  

Ancient China

• Taoism
  

Ancient Greece

• Mystery Traditions
  
• Oracles
  
• Pythagoras
  
• Democritus
  
• Socrates
  
• Plato
  
• Aristotle
  
• Neoplatonism
  

Ancient Rome

• Appolonius of Tyana
  

Ancient Hebrews and Early Christians

• Prophecy
  
• The Teachings of Jesus
  
• Christian Saints
  
• The Monastic Tradition
  

Hermeticism
Islamic Exploration of Consciousness

• Theories of Occult Radiation
  

Medieval and Renaissance Exploration of Consciousness

• Maimonides
  
• Albertus Magnus
  
• Cornelius Agrippa
  
• Paracelsus
  
• John Dee
  
• The Rosicrucians
  

The Age of Enlightenment

• Descartes and Mind-Body Dualism
  
• Leibnitz and Monadology
  
• Idealism
  
• Sir Isaac Newton
  

SECTION II: THE FOLKLORE OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORATION
Astrology

• Ptolmaic Astrology
  
• Kepler and Astrology
  
• Astrology in Contemporary Times
  
• Astro-Biology
  
• Chronotopology
  
• Arthur M. Young's "Geometry of Meaning"
  
• Concluding Thoughts on Astrology
  

Astral Projection and Out-Of-Body Experiences

• Ramacharaka's Theosophical Perspective
  
• An Accidental Projection
  
• OBE In A Dream
  
• Conscious Astral Projection
  
• Sylvan Muldoon's Method
  
• Robert Monroe's Method
  
• Robert Crookall's Observations
  
• Contemporary Perspectives About OBEs
  

Healing

• Healing Temples
  
• An Inner Healing Advisor
  
• Mesmerism
  
• Animal Magnetism
  
• Holistic Faith Healing
  
• Radionics
  
• Edgar Cayce
  
• Psychic Surgery
  
• Delusion and Fraud
  
• Healing at Lourdes
  
• Mental Imagery
  
• Omega Seminar Techniques
  
• A Case Study
  
• Ramacharaka's Healing Exercise
  
• Deep Healing
  

Spiritual Anatomy

• Thoughtforms
  
• The Aura
  
• Experimental Tests
  
• The Vital Body
  
• The Chakras
  
• Chinese Acupuncture
  
• Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy
  
• The Soviet Concept of Biological Plasma
  
• Kirlian Photography
  
• Kirlian Photography Anecdotes
  
• The Phantom Leaf Effect
  
• Kurt Lewin's Field Theory
  

Communication with Higher Intelligence

• Angels and Guardian Spirits
  
• The Glance of the Master
  
• Cabala
  
• Emmanuel Swedenborg
  
• Gustav Theodor Fechner and Psychophysics
  
• The Theosophical Society
  
• A Course in Miracles
  
• The Invisible College
  

Other Worlds

• Swedenborg
  
• From India to the Planet Mars
  
• The Fatima Appearances
  
• UFOs As Apparitions
  
• Carl Jung's Interpretation of UFOs
  
• Uri Geller and UFOs
  
• UFO Research Today
  
• The Stella Lansing Case
  
• Automobile Teleportation
  
• The Strange Case of Dr. X
  
• Biological Effects of UFO Contact
  
• The Betty and Barney Hill Case
  
• Robert Monroe UFO Encounter
  
• UFO Contactee Cults
  
• Ray Stanford UFO Research
  
• Earth's Ambassador
  
• Close Encounters
  
• Jacques Vallee's Analysis
  

Life Within Death -- Death Within Life

<LI>Survival of Consciousness After Death
<LI>Ancient Egypt
<LI>The Tibetan Book of the Dead
<LI>The Visions of Gustav Theodore Fechner
<LI>Spiritualism
<LI>The Spiritism of Allan Kardec
<LI>Founding of the Society for Psychical Research
<LI>Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
<LI>The Watseka Wonder
<LI>Apparitions and Hauntings
<LI>Near Death Experiences
<LI>Mediumship
<LI>Mrs. Piper
<LI>Cross-Correspondences
<LI>The "Marjory" Mediumship
<LI>Reincarnation
Xenoglossy
Unusual Powers of Mind Over Matter

• D. D. Home -- The Greatest Medium Who Ever Lived
  
• Sir William Crookes' Researches
  
• Marthe Beraud
  
• Paraffin Hands
  
• Eusapia Palladino
  
• Psychic Photography
  
• Nina Kulagina
  
• Uri Geller
  
• Poltergeist Cases
  
• Matthew Manning
  
• Philip the Ghost
  
• Ted Owens -- The "PK Man"
  
• Lightning Striking
  
• Weather Control
  

Firewalking
Psionics -- Practical Application of Psychic Awareness

• Harmful Purposes
  
• National Security Applications
  
• Ancient History and Folklore
  
• The World Wars
  
• Eastern Europe
  
• United States
  
• Accident prevention
  
• Dowsing
  
• Treasure Hunting
  
• Accuracy of Information Transmission
  
• Psychic Archeology
  
• Psychic Police Work
  
• Journalism and Investigative Reporting
  
• History
  
• Precognition in Business Management
  
• Public Safety
  
• Communication
  
• Creativity in Art, Literature and Music
  
• Agriculture and pest control
  
• Athletics and Sports
  
• Finding Lost Objects
  
• Scientific Discovery
  
• Weather Prediction and Control
  
• Animal Training and Interspecies Communication
  
• Intuitive Consensus
  

SECTION III: THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Introduction
The Problem of Consciousness
To Err is Human

• The Psychology of Cognitive Biases
  
• The Illusion of Self-Awareness
  
• The Illusion of Control
  
• The Need to be Consistent
  
• The Sleeper Effect
  
• The Effect of Formal Research
  

Extrasensory Perception (ESP)

• Introduction
  
• J. B. Rhine's Early Research at Duke University
  
• Criticisms of ESP Research
  
• Unconscious ESP
  
• Dream Telepathy
  
• Hypnosis and ESP
  
• Exceptional ESP Laboratory Performers
  
• Pavel Stepanek
  
• Bill Delmore
  
• Uri Geller
  
• Ganzfeld Research
  
• The Experimenter Effect
  
• The Sheep-Goat Effect
  
• Psi-Missing
  
• ESP and Personality Traits
  
• Extraversion/Introversion.
  
• Effects of Different ESP Targets
  
• Psi Mediated Instrumental Response
  
• Stanford's Conformance Behavior Model
  
• Precognition
  

Psychokinesis

• Rhine's Early Studies
  
• PK With Random Number Generators (RNGs)
  
• Chinese Reports of Psychokinesis Associated with ESP
  
• PK Metal-Bending
  
• Bio-PK
  

Psionics -- Practical Application of Psychic Awareness

• Casino Gambling Simulation
  
• Possible Psi Healing
  
• Bernard Grad's Research at McGill University
  
• Conceptual Replications of Grad's Research
  
• The Transpersonal Imagery Effect
  

Proper Scientific Controls for ESP Experimentation

• Randomization
  
• Sensory Leakage
  
• Subject Cheating
  
• Recording Errors
  
• Classification and Scoring Errors
  
• Statistical Violations
  
• Reporting Failures
  
• Experimenter Fraud
  

Evaluating Psi Research
SECTION IV: THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Introduction
The Biological Perspective

• The Nervous System
  
• The Endocrine System
  
• The Temporal Lobe Factor in Psychic Experience
  
• The Ecology of Consciousness
  
• Challenges to the Biological Identity Model
  

Consciousness and the New Physics

• Space-Time According to Einstein
  
• Folded Space
  
• Multidimensional Spacetime
  
• The EPR Effect and Bell's Theorem
  
• The Implicate Order
  
• Observational Theories
  
• Unified Field Theory and Consciousness
  
• Evaluating Implications of the New Physics
  

The Reflexive Universe
APPENDIX: CONSCIOUSNESS -- A HYPERSPACE VIEW BY SAUL-PAUL SIRAG

• Introduction
  
• Consciousness as Reflection Space
  
• Coda
  
• References
  
• Glossary
  

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