What Always Comes to Mind The Visualist's Guide to a Metaspheric Perspective on Reality |
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| Editor:
| Wheeler, Mary |
| Author:
| Guy, James |
| ISBN: | 978-0-692-76878-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
| Publisher: | Avataric Allusions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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A brief, compelling philosophy of mind that dares ask: Can we consciously trace what comes to mind to its source? What is mind anyway? Has mind become evolutionarily obsolete in its purpose as a survival mechanism? What exactly is that mechanism? Is there some evolutionary responsibility to consciously re-purpose mind, and is that the anticipated awakening the wisdom traditions ask of us?Both ardent visualists and casual explorers of mind and consciousness are predisposed to ask as...
More DescriptionA brief, compelling philosophy of mind that dares ask: Can we consciously trace what comes to mind to its source? What is mind anyway? Has mind become evolutionarily obsolete in its purpose as a survival mechanism? What exactly is that mechanism? Is there some evolutionary responsibility to consciously re-purpose mind, and is that the anticipated awakening the wisdom traditions ask of us?Both ardent visualists and casual explorers of mind and consciousness are predisposed to ask as well as answer these and even more radical considerations posed in this book. If your wanderlust to join this exploration has kicked in, this is a must-have guidebook for your trip. Its 240 pages have equal share of full color exemplary maps of the territory and fully accessible prose to grab the attention of both experiential and reflexive sides of mind. The principal visualists cited in the book who have been my guides in corroborating what always comes to mind include Buckminster Fuller, John Venn, G. Spencer-Brown, Charles Peirce, Arthur M. Young, Peter Mark Roget, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Chogyam Trungpa, Ram Dass, Pir Vilayat Khan, Jakob Bohme, Franklin Jones-aka Adi Da, and Hermann Hesse, along with anonymous Vedantists, Buddhists, and Hermetists.The narrative underpinning of this excursion into the mystery of mind is the author's entheogen experience and the nagging intuition it left in mind: that mind has structure and process more easily observed using the technical metaphor of perspective.