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On the terminology of consciousness: mysticism and cognitive neuroscience
Terminology is not simply an agreed framework for communicating ideas. It crucially establishes the structures by which we observe the issues of interest. In the case of consciousness, much confusion is caused by the lack of agreed terms. In particular, it remains unclear as to what the ‘un’ refers in our term ‘unconscious’. In this paper, I examine the nexus of integration between Buddhist Abhidhamma texts, kabbalistic literature and the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness in order to propose a core terminology of consciousness and conscious states.
Prof Les Lancaster is Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University, and part of the Adjunct Research Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, California. He is emeritus Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. At LJMU he co-founded the Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit, through which postgraduate programmes in these areas have been running for the last 15 years. He has published widely in scholarly journals, and his most recent books are The Essence of Kabbalah and Approaches to Consciousness: the Marriage of Science and Mysticism.
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