From: keg@strathspey.llnl.gov (Keith Grant)
Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
Subject: States of consciousness, hypnosis, and meditation
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:36:34 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Originator: keg@strathspey.llnl.gov



For those wanting to explore the available literature on states of 
consciousness and their relationship to different types of meditative 
and hypnotic states, I offer up the following reading list as a starting
point.   

Author:           Naranjo, Claudio.
Date:             [1974, c1973]
Title:            The healing journey: new approaches to consciousness.
Publisher:        Pantheon Books

Author:           Naranjo, Claudio.
                  Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
Date:             1976.
Title:            On the psychology of meditation / Claudio Naranjo and Robert
                    E. Ornstein.
Publisher:        Penguin Books,

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
Date:             c1991.
Title:            The evolution of consciousness : of Darwin, Freud, and
                    cranial fire : the origins of the way we think / Robert
                    Ornstein ; line illustrations by Ted Dewan.
Publisher:        Prentice Hall Press,

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
                  Sobel, David S. (David Stuart)
Date:             c1987.
Title:            The healing brain : breakthrough discoveries about how the
                    brain keeps us healthy / Robert Ornstein and David Sobel.
Publisher:        Simon and Schuster,

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
                  Sobel, David S. (David Stuart)
Date:             c1989.
Title:            Healthy pleasures / Robert Ornstein and David Sobel.
Publisher:        Addison-Wesley,

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
Date:             1986.
Title:            Multimind / Robert Ornstein.
Publisher:        Houghton Mifflin,

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
Date:             [1973]
Title:            The nature of human consciousness: a book of readings, edited
                    by Robert E. Ornstein.
Publisher:        W. H. Freeman

Author:           Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-
Date:             1986.
Title:            The psychology of consciousness / Robert Ornstein.
Publisher:        Penguin Books,

Author:           Tart, Charles T., 1937-
Date:             1990.
Title:            Altered states of consciousness / edited by Charles T. Tart.
Publisher:        Harper,

Author:           Tart, Charles T., 1937-
                  Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Date:             1986.
Title:            Waking up : overcoming the obstacles to human potential /
                    Charles T. Tart.
Publisher:        New Science Library ; Distributed in the U.S. by Random
                    House,

Author:           Tart, Charles T., 1937-
Date:             [1975]
Title:            Transpersonal psychologies / edited by Charles T. Tart.
Publisher:        Harper & Row,



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