Books on Consciousness and Psychology
A historical ASPR book catalogue on consciousness, psychology and exceptional mental states.
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Consciousness & Psychology
Mystical Experience in 30 Days:
The Higher Consciousness Program
Keith Harary, Ph.D. & Patricia Weintraub
Who Do You Think You Are? The Berkeley Personality Profile
Keith Harary, Ph.D. & Eileen Donahue, Ph.D.
Margins of Reality:
The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
Robert K. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne
The Variety of Religious Experience
William James
The Dilemma of Psychology:
A Psychologist Looks at His Troubled Profession
Lawrence LeShan
How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery
Lawrence LeShan
The Holographic Universe
Michael Talbot
William James on Exceptional Mental States
Eugene Taylor
Mystical Experience in 30 Days:
The Higher Consciousness Program
Keith Harary, Ph.D. & Patricia Weintraub
Safe, simple exercises to induce mystical experiences.
90 pp., pbk., 1991, St. Martin's Press
Who Do You Think You Are? The Berkeley Personality Profile
Keith Harary, Ph.D. & Eileen Donahue, Ph.D.
A unique new method of personality assessment.
215 pp., pbk, 1995, Harper San Francisco
Margins of Reality:
The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
Robert K. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne
From a decade of research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Laboratory, the authors present a fundamental reevaluation of human consciousness and physics: the ability of the mind to affect physical devices; definitive evidence of psychokinesis from repeatable laboratory experiments.
427 pp., 1987, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
The Variety of Religious Experience
William James
Classic work on human consciousness by the incomparable William James. An objective exploration of the ineffable - documenting, through many anecdotal accounts, the various facets of religious experience.
534 pp., pbk., 1985, Penguin
The Dilemma of Psychology:
A Psychologist Looks at His Troubled Profession
Lawrence LeShan
Challenges traditional viewpoints and methodology of psychologists and psychotherapists; questions the effectiveness of standard treatments.
203 pp., cloth, 1990, E.P. Dutton
How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery
Lawrence LeShan
An easy-to-follow and realistic approach to the therapeutic benefits of meditation; includes specific programs and exercises.
161 pp., pbk., 1974, Bantam
The Holographic Universe
Michael Talbot
Explores how our concepts of time, personality and consciousness can be altered by holographic dimensions perceived through the study of quantum physics; provides a rational physical explanation for many paranormal experiences.
320 pp., pbk., 1991, Harper-Collins
William James on Exceptional Mental States
Eugene Taylor
Reconstruction of James' classic 1896 Lowell Lectures on the subconscious mind: dreams and hypnotism, multiple personality, demoniacal possession, witchcraft, degeneration and genius.
222, pbk., 1982, University of Massachusetts Press
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