Seeing Myself | Free Book
Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand their own mind
and to find a spiritual path that is compatible with science
As an impressionable young student, Susan Blackmore had
an intense, dramatic and life-changing experience, seeming to leave
her body and travel the world. With no rational explanation for her
out-of-body experience (OBE) she turned to astral projection and the
paranormal, but soon despaired of finding answers. Decades later, a
Swiss neurosurgeon accidentally discovered the spot in the brain
that can induce OBEs and everything changed; this crucial spot is
part of the brain's self-system and when disturbed so is our
experience of self. Blackmore leaped back into OBE research and at
last began to unravel what had happened to her.
Seeing Myself describes her long quest for answers through
spirituality, religion, drugs, meditation, philosophy and
neuroscience.
Anyone can have an OBE, indeed 15 per cent
of us have. Even more have experienced sleep paralysis, lucid
dreaming and the creepy sense of an invisible presence. At last,
with the advent of brain stimulation, fMRI scanning and virtual
reality, all these phenomena are beginning to make sense. Long
relegated to the very fringes of research, the new science of
out-of-body experiences is now contributing to our understanding of
consciousness and our very selves.
About the Author
Susan J. Blackmore is a distinguished and influential psychologist, known for her books exploring consciousness, memetics, evolution and spirituality. Her first book, Beyond the Body (1982), was hailed as a classic and the (then) definitive work on OBEs. She is a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth and a freelance writer, giving lectures all over the world both at academic conferences and to the public.
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