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Psyche & Symbol—Dionysian Unconscious: Destroy and Create New Life

By Joseph Campbell — 2019

Joseph Campbell looks at the worship of Dionysos and its connection to the upwelling of the energy of nature and life from the unconscious into the conscious mind, as well as its association with the earlier worship of the Great Goddess.

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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (The MIT Press)

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness.

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Christof Koch
2024
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What Happens if Your Mind Lives For Ever On the Internet?

It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.

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Michael Graziano
2019
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How Weird Is Consciousness?

Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.

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Alison Gopnik
2010
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.

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Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson
2009
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The Gifts of a Mythic Life

Myth is not a no thing, an insubstantial conceptual will-o'-the-wisp. It is coded into our cells and waters the seas of the unconscious. It dwells in our little finger and plays along the spine as well as the spirit.

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Jean Houston
2013
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The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys, Volume One

The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the “microscope and telescope of the human psyche”—and other psychedelic substances.

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Stanislav Grof
2024
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The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys, Volume Two

The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the “microscope and telescope of the human psyche”—and other psychedelic substances.

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Stanislav Grof
2019
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Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. How does one do this? By becoming metahuman. To be metahuman, however, isn’t science fiction and is certainly not about being a superhero.

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Deepak Chopra
2019
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