The Mind Field: A Personal Essay - Hardcover

Robert E. Ornstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670476277 ISBN 13: 9780670476275

Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR, 1976

Synopsis

For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety. But now, this rational Western perception of consciousness has been challenged by an Eastern discipline which brings into sharp focus the travesty and deception underlying many of the contemporary awareness movements. Yet it is also the author's intent to combat the easy criticisms of the super-rationalists who dismiss every new development as the irresponsible inventions of the "guru-of-the-month club." He offers not only the finding of extensive scientific research on the brain but the valuable discoveries of personal experience as well. There is no one who is better qualified to assess our modern approach to matters of the mind than Robert Ornstein and he does so with clarity, wit, and utter persuasiveness

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Review:

Robert Ornstein is a brain researcher who, having worked his way to the cutting edge of consciousness, refuses to budge. In what is essentially a series of essays, The Mind Field takes a rational, scientific look at the esoteric envelope -- psychotherapy, Eastern mysticism, intuition training, parapsychology. With deft reasoning and rock-solid information, Ornstein delivers an enlightening exploration which brushes away much detritus, leaving a sprout of potential to be nurtured and observed.

About the Author:

Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., is a psychologist and author of more than 20 books on the brain, mind, and health including The Psychology of Consciousness and The Right Mind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0670476277
• ISBN 13: 9780670476275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 141