Science & Consciousness

This book explores the concept of consciousness when defined in the terms mind, spirit, soul and awareness. It consists of the edited proceedings of a colloquium held in Cordoba, at which experts in physics, neuro- and psycho-physiology, analytical psychology, philosophy and religious knowledge discussed aspects of their work related to this main theme. The following areas are covered: quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness, neurophysiology and states of consciousness, the manifestation of the psyche in consciousness, the odyssey of consciousness, and science and consciousness. The discussions which follow give a multi-disciplinary perspective on the questions involved.

Of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, physicists, neurophysiologists, and theologians.

(partial) Conscious experience and its place in physics, B D Josephson. The Tao of physics, F Capra. Altered states of consciousness, Y Ikemi. Hypnic thought and waking dreams: a cross-transference, A Virez. Science and consciousness as seen by analytical psychology as a science, C A Meier. From the biological to the imaginal, P Solié. Orpheus and Iris 80: the exploration of the imaginary, G Durand. Shrodinger's cat and the imagination, D L Miller. Mind, brain and consciousness: the organisation of competence and conduct, K Pribam. The neurocybernetics of human behaviour in the light of the silence of thought in hesychasm, G Pégand. Imagination and implicate order, D Bohm. Physics and alchemy, P Solié.