Contents and introduction (Curtain Raiser) to Godhead: The Brain's Big Bang, the first book to accurately explain the explosive origin of creativity, mysticism and mental illness and link it to the universal nature of consciousness.
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CONTENTS
PART I: ORIGINS
Chapter 1 What are we?
The law of all living things
The brain’s big bang
The appearance of creativity
The appearance of mental illness
The appearance of mysticism
Chapter 2 The ‘Mad Monk’
Caetextia
The animal within
Left- and right-brained caetextia
The imprinted brain
The brain’s default system
Spirituality and autism
The Observing Self
Caetextia as an organising idea
Daydreaming: triumph or disaster?
Chapter 3 Your self-concept
Our caetextic culture
Caetextia, creativity and genius
Casualties of evolution
Organisational caetextia
Chapter 4 Why all learning is post-hypnotic
How we internalise knowledge
Hypnosis: psychotherapy’s most powerful tool
Conditioning
Learning versus indoctrination
PART II: RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 5 Why consciousness matters
Consciousness and psychotherapy
Pondering in the dark
Chapter 6 The vital spark
Relatons
Self-consciousness
How life accumulates knowledge
Relationships are pattern-matches
The memory mystery
Connection
The dream
PART III: HOW TIME IS CREATED
Chapter 7 Unseen probabilities
How time came about
The oscillating nature of reality
Ancient texts
Necessity and spirituality
Choosing up or down
Chapter 8 What happens to consciousness after death?
The value of metaphor
The mystical experience
God and Godhead
‘Burnt Norton’
All and everything
Nothing is not what it seems
Evolution
PART IV: THE GREAT WORK
Chapter 9 The pattern in the maze
Scientia
Prehistory: the heart in the cave
The Shaft of the Dead Man
The cost of culture
How myths shape meaning
Why every myth must die
Chapter 10 Ice Age Illuminati
Harnessing superstition
Stone circles
From circles to pyramids
Occam’s razor and extraterrestrials
The great secret
Chapter 11 The higher impulse
The universality of ancient teachings
Gnostic mystery schools
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The medieval Renaissance
Love
The mystical process in the modern world
PART V: FINDING YOUR WAY
Chapter 12 The Assertion
Gaining spare capacity
The obstacle race
Removing the ‘veils’
Mastering appetites
How to recognise and avoid cults
The expectation factor
Mystics and madness
The Ladder
Your destiny
Appendices
I Egyptian temple writings
II The human givens
References and notes
Index
CONTENTS
PART I: ORIGINS
Chapter 1 What are we?
The law of all living things
The brain’s big bang
The appearance of creativity
The appearance of mental illness
The appearance of mysticism
Chapter 2 The ‘Mad Monk’
Caetextia
The animal within
Left- and right-brained caetextia
The imprinted brain
The brain’s default system
Spirituality and autism
The Observing Self
Caetextia as an organising idea
Daydreaming: triumph or disaster?
Chapter 3 Your self-concept
Our caetextic culture
Caetextia, creativity and genius
Casualties of evolution
Organisational caetextia
Chapter 4 Why all learning is post-hypnotic
How we internalise knowledge
Hypnosis: psychotherapy’s most powerful tool
Conditioning
Learning versus indoctrination
PART II: RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 5 Why consciousness matters
Consciousness and psychotherapy
Pondering in the dark
Chapter 6 The vital spark
Relatons
Self-consciousness
How life accumulates knowledge
Relationships are pattern-matches
The memory mystery
Connection
The dream
PART III: HOW TIME IS CREATED
Chapter 7 Unseen probabilities
How time came about
The oscillating nature of reality
Ancient texts
Necessity and spirituality
Choosing up or down
Chapter 8 What happens to consciousness after death?
The value of metaphor
The mystical experience
God and Godhead
‘Burnt Norton’
All and everything
Nothing is not what it seems
Evolution
PART IV: THE GREAT WORK
Chapter 9 The pattern in the maze
Scientia
Prehistory: the heart in the cave
The Shaft of the Dead Man
The cost of culture
How myths shape meaning
Why every myth must die
Chapter 10 Ice Age Illuminati
Harnessing superstition
Stone circles
From circles to pyramids
Occam’s razor and extraterrestrials
The great secret
Chapter 11 The higher impulse
The universality of ancient teachings
Gnostic mystery schools
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
The medieval Renaissance
Love
The mystical process in the modern world
PART V: FINDING YOUR WAY
Chapter 12 The Assertion
Gaining spare capacity
The obstacle race
Removing the ‘veils’
Mastering appetites
How to recognise and avoid cults
The expectation factor
Mystics and madness
The Ladder
Your destiny
Appendices
I Egyptian temple writings
II The human givens
References and notes
Index
