The Mind's Eye (Oliver Sacks) deals with the idea of how we are the creators of our own experiences. Sacks raises the question as to what extent we shape our brains through experience.
When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday (Martha Stout) is concerned with divided consciousness, our way of escaping reality and maintaining healthy mental balance, but also with the issue of where the threshold lies when escaping reality affects sanity.
Wisdom (Robert Thurman) discusses the loss of "self" and how the idea of "no self" has been misjudged. "No self" is not necessarily a bad thing and is actually the center of what is considered "infinite life."
The Case for Mental Imagery presents an argument that mental images depict information and play a role in human cognition. It outlines a specific theory of how image representations are used in
information processing and how they come about from
neural processes.
The Myth of Sanity talks about how trauma and dissociation affects the personality daily. These wild reactions to events are a lot more common than we think.
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