{"title":"Vladimir Miskovic","description":"\u003cp\u003eVladimir Miskovic's work invites readers into a realm where imagination and reality intertwine, offering a unique narrative experience. His writing explores the boundaries of perception, often blending dreamlike elements with thought-provoking themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect stories that challenge conventional storytelling, rich in atmosphere and introspective depth. Miskovic’s books are ideal for those who appreciate literature that lingers in the mind long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dreaming-reality-by-vladimir-miskovic-9780674271869","title":"Dreaming Reality","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experiences to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show that this way of thinking is both limited and an obstacle to understanding consciousness. In \u003cem\u003eDreaming Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, Miskovic and Lynn connect the latest findings from neuroscience—which studies the brain from the outside in, as a purely physical object—to the insights of the world's mystical traditions, which chart elaborate cartographies of the mind from inside out through experiences of meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. We can tackle the biggest questions surrounding the nature of consciousness when we place objective scientific research alongside the phenomenology of \"altered\" states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDreaming Reality\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rich synthesis of brains and minds, new and old, that challenges many cherished notions of how we experience our worlds and selves. Instead of privileging the experience of waking life, Miskovic and Lynn take this only as the starting point of a progressive disentanglement of consciousness. Delving into Buddhism, Vedanta, and Christian mysticism, they find that we have much to learn from dreams, hallucinations, visionary states, ego death, mind wandering, sensory deprivation, psychedelic experimentation, meditation, and minimal phenomenal experiences of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter brings us closer to understanding how we dream reality into existence and how we might transcend impoverished materialist models, whose unacknowledged effect is to drive us toward nihilism. Instead, we arrive at a model of consciousness that is more capacious and compassionate than biological sciences alone can imagine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340734709996,"sku":"9780674271869","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1220573482428.jpg?v=1772167705"},{"product_id":"dreaming-reality-by-steven-jay-lynn-9780674306097","title":"Dreaming Reality","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are nothing but a pack of neurons, Francis Crick once said. But while there may be some truth to this way of thinking, it is also an obstacle to understanding consciousness. \u003cem\u003eDreaming Reality\u003c\/em\u003e responds by connecting the latest findings from neuroscience to the insights of the world's mystical traditions, which chart elaborate cartographies of the mind through experiences of meditation, prayer, and ecstasy. Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn show how we can tackle the biggest questions surrounding the nature of consciousness when we place objective scientific research alongside the phenomenology of \"altered\" states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile neuroscience privileges the experience of waking life, \u003cem\u003eDreaming Reality\u003c\/em\u003e finds that we have much to learn from dreams, hallucinations, and visionary states. Miskovic and Lynn delve into Buddhism, Vedanta, and Christian mysticism, addressing questions of selfhood from the standpoints of ego death, mind wandering, sensory deprivation, psychedelic experimentation, and minimal phenomenal experiences of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67807571837164,"sku":"9780674306097","price":64.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674306097-dreaming-reality-1.jpg?v=1792524500"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/vladimir-miskovic.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}