Tag: mind

I’m yawning, writing this article. (Has anyone put together a montage of yawns to show to insomniacs?) These books about sleep (and many more) are available to borrow for free from the Internet Archive.

Borrow for free. An investigation of the history and ideas of a multitude of experiences that are denied by conventional reality.

Creative Dreaming, by clinical psychologist Patricia Garfield, is a really useful, classic guide to creating a dream world that serves and is in harmony with your waking life. You can borrow it from the Internet Archive for up to 14 days.

Borrow for free. “There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it — from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons — are [like Princess Leia’s hologram] only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time. The main architects of this astonishing idea are two of the world’s most eminent thinkers: University of London physicist David Bohm, a protege of Einstein’s and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists; and Karl Pribram, a neurophysiologist at Stanford University.”

Borrow for free. Jacques Vallée is the French scientist that the character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is based on. For decades, he has been looking at the UFO phenomenon from a radically different perspective from the mainstream, and this book is a collection of accounts of incidents involving extra-terrestrial visitations throughout history.

Mandalas are widely known as symbols that assist with meditation and concentration, but there are complexities and profundities of meaning, if you want to dig a little deeper.