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Communing with the Gods

Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain

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Presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds. The perspective is that of neuroanthropology - the merger of neuroscience with ethnographic research on dreaming.

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Communing with the Gods, Charles D. Laughlin

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2011
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Title
Communing with the Gods
Subtitle
Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain
Language
English
Released
2011
Format
Paperback
Pages
588
ISBN10
0980711169
ISBN13
9780980711165
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Presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. The book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds. The perspective is that of neuroanthropology - the merger of neuroscience with ethnographic research on dreaming.