Areas of study, supplementing my analysis and meditations on the crisis:
To clarify consciousness during purgation I have been studying:
(This list is is dire need of updating!)
- philosophy of mind (including works of Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel
Kant, Leszek Kolakowski, John Searle, etc.)
- comparative religion (including works of
Vivekananda, William James,
Evelyn Underhill, W.T. Stace, Aldous Huxley, R.K.C. Forman, Gene Thursby,
Charles Tart, etc.
- mystical writings: (For references see reference section at the end of
An Engineer's Story.)
- consciousness studies: (including works of
Ralph D. Ellis, Alwyn Scott, David
Chalmers, Pradeep Mutalik, etc.).
- cognitive neuroscience (including G. A. Miller, A. Newell and H. A. Simon,
G. Edelman, M. Velmans, N. Block, A. R. Damasio, Joseph LeDoux, etc.),
- psychology (including works of
Richard C. Schwartz,
William James, S. Freud, Joseph Weiss, David Malan, Michael Basch,
M. Csikszentmihalyi, A. Deikman, Richard Lazarus, David Shapiro, DSM-IV,
E.R. Hilgard, Geo. Vaillant, Peter Hartocollis, David Rapaport, Otto Kernberg,
Michael Balint, Charles Ducey, Ulrich Goluke, Jay Haley, etc.),
- sociobiology or evolutionary psychology (including
works by E. O. Wilson),
- system dynamics (including writings of Jay Forrester, John Sterman,
George Richardson, Ulrich Goluke, Peter Senge, Michael Goodman, Ralph
Levine, Pratap Mohapatra, Jorgen Randers, Barry Richmond, David C.
Lane, Alan K. Graham, Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, etc.)
- mathematics (Steven H. Strogatz's book on nonlinear dynamics),
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