my mind on books

Jeff Warren’s The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness is an entertaining tour with Warren as an enthusiastic and witty guide, who earnestly tries to figure it all out. Sometimes I laughed out loud, other times I tried to roll my eyes to the back of my head (an indicator of hypnotic capacity), and I wanted to check out many of the books and authors Warren consults along the way.

So following is a list of “further reading” for the consciousness tourist…

The Hypnogogic

Hypnagogia: The Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep by Andreas Mavromatis
The Mind At Night: The New Science Of How And Why We Dream by Andrea Rock

The Slow Wave

The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience by Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull

The Watch

At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch

The REM Dream

Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep by J. Allan Hobson

The Lucid Dream

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephan LaBerge (Lucidity Institute)

Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason by James Kent

The Trance

The Inner Source: Exploring Hypnosis (Revised) by Donald Connery
Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis by Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel

Placebo: The Belief Effect by Dylan Evans

The Daydream

Fantastic Thought: All about Dreams, Daydreams, Hallucinations, and Hypnosis by Steven Starker

Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential by Ian Robertson

Evan Thompson, Antoine Lutz “Neurophenomenology” Journal of Consciousness Studies

The SMR

The Neurofeedback Book by Lynda and Michael Thompson

The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins

A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brain Wave Biofeedback by Jim Robbins

Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine by John Geiger

The Zone

In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports by Michael Murphy and Rhea White

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Pure Conscious Event/Meditation

The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience by Daniel Goleman
Visuddhimagga, or The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga (Bhikkhu Nanamoli, tr.)
The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy by Robert K.C. Forman
The Mind: A User’s Manual by John G. Taylor

Conclusion

States of Consciousness by Charles Tart

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness