The Metaphors of consciousness / [electronic resource] / edited by Ronald S. Valle and Rolf Von Eckartsberg.. — New York : : Plenum Press,, c1981.. — xxii, 521 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Part I. Metaphors and maps -- Part II. Psychological approaches -- Part III. Psychological frontiers -- Part IV. Beyond psychology : East meets West -- Part V. Transcendence and mysticism -- Part VI. Literary modes -- Part VII. The natural sciences -- : Science and reality : metaphors of experience and experience as metaphorical / : Maps of the mind : the cartography of consciousness / : Radical behaviorism and consciousness / : The nature of consciousness : the existential-phenomenological approach / : Reflections on David Bohm's holomovement : a physicist's model of cosmos and consciousness / : Behaviorism, phenomenology, and holism in psychology : a scientific analysis / : Phenomemology and neuropsychology : two approaches to consciousness / : The mind contained in the brain : a cybernetic belief system / : Exo-psychology / : Transpersonal realities or neurophysiological illusions? Toward an empirically testable dualism / : Depth consciousness / : Approaches to psychotherapy : Freud, Jung, and Tibetan Buddhism / : Two paradigmatic strands in the Buddhist theory of consciousness / : Heideggerian thinking and the Eastern mind / : Energy of consciousness in the human personality / : Human consciousness and the Christian mystic : Teresa of Avila / : Transformation of self and world in Johannes Tauler's mysticism / : God-consciousness and the "poetry of madness" / : The nature and expression of feminine consciousness through psychology and literature / : Speculative approaches to consciousness in science fiction / : Relativistic quantum psychology : a reconceptualization of what we thought we knew / : Chemistry and human awareness : natural scientific connections / : On the shifting structure of mathematical paradigms / : Computer metaphors for consciousness/ : Thymos as biopsychological metaphor : the vital root of consciousness / Robert D. Romanyshyn -- Rolf von Eckartsberg -- James G. Holland -- Donald M. Moss and Ernest Keen -- Renee Weber -- Karl H. Pribram -- Donald M. Moss -- John C. Lilly -- Timothy Leary -- Charles T. Tart -- Stanton Marlan -- David M. Levin -- Padmasiri de Silva -- Rolf von Eckartsberg and Ronald S. Valle -- Swami Rama -- Silvio E. Fittipaldi -- Donald M. Moss -- Elsa von Eckartsberg -- Valerie A. Valle and Elizabeth L. Kruger -- David Ben Leavitt -- Ronald S. Valle -- Neil E. Schore -- John M. Carpenter -- Puran Khan Bair -- Paul A. Lee.