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"Using Zen meditation to unravel the mysteries of consciousness. The calming and de-stressing benefits of Zen meditation have long been known, but scientists are now considering its huge potential to influence our ability to understand and experience consciousness – though few will say it! Susan Blackmore is about to change all that: she’s a world expert in brain science who has also been practising Zen meditation for over twenty-five years. In this revolutionary book, she doesn’t push any religious or spiritual agenda but simply presents the methods used in Zen as an aid to help us understand consciousness and identity – concepts which have stumped scientists and philosophers – in an exciting new way. Each chapter takes as its starting point one of Zen’s - and science's - most intriguing questions such as, ""Am I conscious now?"" and ""How does thought arise?"""

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I do recommend this book both to Susan Blackmore's many admirers and her detractors. Journal of Consciousness Studies Should be compulsory reading for anyone in consciousness studies and certainly on every psychology course. The Scientific and Medical Network [Sue Blackmore's] formidable intellect and clarity of approach is complemented by a warm and self-deprecating sense of humour. Psychologist,The

I do recommend this book both to Susan Blackmore's many admirers and her detractors. * Journal of Consciousness Studies * Should be compulsory reading for anyone in consciousness studies and certainly on every psychology course. * The Scientific and Medical Network * [Sue Blackmore's] formidable intellect and clarity of approach is complemented by a warm and self-deprecating sense of humour. * Psychologist,The *

"""[Sue Blackmore's] formidable intellect and clarity of approach is complemented by a warm and self-deprecating sense of humour."" * Psychologist,The * ""Should be compulsory reading for anyone in consciousness studies and certainly on every psychology course."" * The Scientific and Medical Network * ""I do recommend this book both to Susan Blackmore's many admirers and her detractors."" * Journal of Consciousness Studies *"

"""I do recommend this book both to Susan Blackmore's many admirers and her detractors."" * Journal of Consciousness Studies * ""Should be compulsory reading for anyone in consciousness studies and certainly on every psychology course."" * The Scientific and Medical Network * ""[Sue Blackmore's] formidable intellect and clarity of approach is complemented by a warm and self-deprecating sense of humour."" * Psychologist,The *"

[Sue Blackmore's] formidable intellect and clarity of approach is complemented by a warm and self-deprecating sense of humour. * Psychologist,The * Should be compulsory reading for anyone in consciousness studies and certainly on every psychology course. * The Scientific and Medical Network * I do recommend this book both to Susan Blackmore's many admirers and her detractors. * Journal of Consciousness Studies *

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Dr Susan Blackmore is a writer, broadcaster and Visiting Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her many publications include Conversations on Consciousness, A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness, and The Meme Machine. She has been practicing Zen for over twenty-five years.

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