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  title info:
    title: Meditation - neuroscientific approaches and philosophical implications
  name:
    name part: Schmidt, Stefan
    name part: 1967 September 30-
  name:
    name part: Walach, Harald.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 411 pages)
  abstract: This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are so called "higher states of consciousness" that some people report during meditation pointing towards a new understanding of consciousness? Meditation research is a new discipline that shows new inroads into the study of consciousness. If a meditative practice changes brain structure itself this is direct proof of the causal influence of consciousness onto its substrate. If different states of consciousness can be linked with properties and states of the brain this can be used to study consciousness more directly. If the sense of self is modifiable through meditative techniques and this can be objectively shown through neuro-imaging, this has profound implications for our understanding of who we are. Can consciousness, in deep states of meditative absorption, actually access some aspect of reality which we normally don't? Meditation research can potentially foster us with a new access to the phenomenological method in general. This has even been branded with a new catch-phrase: Contemplative Science. It brings together the most modern neuroscientific approach and the most advanced phenomenological methodology of studying the mind from within, through highly skilled self-observation that has gone through many thousand hours of honing the capacity to look carefully, without distraction. This book addresses these issues by bringing together some of the leading researchers and thinkers in the field. The scope of the volume reaches from first person neuroscience to Indian philosophy, from pedagogic applications to epistemological aspects and from compassion meditation to the study of brain activity.
  note: Stefan Schmidt, Harald Walach, editors.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Meditation
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Neuropsychology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Mental health
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body -- Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body
  classification: BF161
  classification: 128.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Meditation - Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications
    name:
      name part: Schmidt, Stefan
    origin info:
      publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,c2013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality ; vol. 2
  identifier: 9783319016344
  identifier: 3319016342
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140208
    record change date: 20250816210733.9
    record identifier: in00003478247
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng