Cultivating Consciousness

?An interesting volume.... one can recommend it heartily as an addition to institutional collections.?-Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research "An interesting volume.... one can recommend it heartily as an addition to institutional collections."-Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research

K. RAMAKRISHNA RAO is Director of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in North Carolina. He worked earlier as a professor of psychology and vice-chancellor at Andhra University in India. He is the author of Experimental Parapsychology (1966), Gandhi and Pragmatism (1968), Mystic Awareness (1972), and the editor of The Basic Experiments in Parapsychology (1984) and Case Studies in Parapsychology (1986). He is also the editor of the Journal of Indian Psychology and the Journal of Parapsychology.

Does Further Progress in Consciousness Research Await a Reassessment of the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science? Getting Clear about Wholeness: A Critical Response to Harman Facilitating the Study of Consciousness: Emerging Themes on the Frontiers of Science What Is Consciousness and Why Is It So Problematic? Some Epistemological Problems Inherent in the Scientific Study of Consciousness Cultivating Consciousness: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues Embracing the Subtle: The Emerging Paradigm in Relation to the Subtle Realms The Complementarity of Consciousness Mind Embodied! Computer-Generated Virtual Reality and a New Dualistic-Interactive Model for Transpersonal Psychology Current Hypotheses about the Nature of the Mind-Brain Relationship and Their Relationship to Findings in Parapsychology Co-Operator Experiments with an REG Device The Power of Imagination: Steps toward a Philosophy of Healing Inner Teachers and Transcendent Education Consciousness and Well-Being The Scene and the Screen: The Nature of Reality On the Trail of Survival: A Key to Expanded Knowledge Bibliography Author Index Subject Index