Metaphors of Consciousness

Abstract

Part I. Metaphors and maps -- Science and reality : metaphors of experience and experience as metaphorical / Robert D. Romanyshyn -- Maps of the mind : the cartography of consciousness / Rolf von Eckartsberg -- Part II. Psychological approaches -- Radical behaviorism and consciousness / James G. Holland -- The nature of consciousness : the existential-phenomenological approach / Donald M. Moss and Ernest Keen -- Reflections on David Bohm's holomovement : a physicist's model of cosmos and consciousness / Renee Weber -- Behaviorism, phenomenology, and holism in psychology : a scientific analysis / Karl H. Pribram -- Phenomemology and neuropsychology : two approaches to consciousness / Donald M. Moss -- Part III. Psychological frontiers -- The mind contained in the brain : a cybernetic belief system / John C. Lilly -- Exo-psychology / Timothy Leary -- Transpersonal realities or neurophysiological illusions? Toward an empirically testable dualism / Charles T. Tart -- Part IV. Beyond psychology : East meets West -- Depth consciousness / Stanton Marlan -- Approaches to psychotherapy : Freud, Jung, and Tibetan Buddhism / David M. Levin -- Two paradigmatic strands in the Buddhist theory of consciousness / Padmasiri de Silva -- Heideggerian thinking and the Eastern mind / Rolf von Eckartsberg and Ronald S. Valle -- Part V. Transcendence and mysticism -- Energy of consciousness in the human personality / Swami Rama -- Human consciousness and the Christian mystic : Teresa of Avila / Silvio E. Fittipaldi -- Transformation of self and world in Johannes Tauler's mysticism / Donald M. Moss -- Part VI. Literary modes -- God-consciousness and the "poetry of madness" / Elsa von Eckartsberg -- The nature and expression of feminine consciousness through psychology and literature / Valerie A. Valle and Elizabeth L. Kruger -- Speculative approaches to consciousness in science fiction / David Ben Leavitt -- Part VII. The natural sciences -- Relativistic quantum psychology : a reconceptualization of what we thought we knew / Ronald S. Valle -- Chemistry and human awareness : natural scientific connections / Neil E. Schore -- On the shifting structure of mathematical paradigms / John M. Carpenter -- Computer metaphors for consciousness/ Puran Khan Bair -- Thymos as biopsychological metaphor : the vital root of consciousness / Paul A. Lee.