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Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness
By: Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn

Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness
 
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Author: Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780674271869
Publication Date: 2025


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We are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show that this way of thinking is both limited and an obstacle to understanding consciousness. In Dreaming Reality, Miskovic and Lynn connect the latest findings from neuroscience--which studies the brain from the outside in, as a purely physical object--to the insights of the world's mystical traditions, which chart elaborate cartographies of the mind from inside out through experiences of meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. We can tackle the biggest questions surrounding the nature of consciousness when we place objective scientific research alongside the phenomenology of "altered" states.
Dreaming Reality offers a rich synthesis of brains and minds, new and old, that challenges many cherished notions of how we experience our worlds and selves. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, Miskovic and Lynn take this only as the starting point of a progressive disentanglement of consciousness. Delving into Buddhism, Vedanta, and Christian mysticism, they find that we have much to learn from dreams, hallucinations, visionary states, ego death, mind wandering, sensory deprivation, psychedelic experimentation, meditation, and minimal phenomenal experiences of consciousness.
Each chapter brings us closer to understanding how we dream reality into existence and how we might transcend impoverished materialist models, whose unacknowledged effect is to drive us toward nihilism. Instead, we arrive at a model of consciousness that is more capacious and compassionate than biological sciences alone can imagine.
Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness, Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Hardcover, 392 pages, $29.95

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