Ebook: Zen and the brain: Toward an Understand of Meditation and Consciousness

Contents in Brief -- Chapters Containing Testable Hypotheses -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- By Way of Introduction -- Is There Any Common Ground between -- Zen and the Brain? -- A Brief Outline of Zen History -- But What Is Zen? -- Mysticism, Zen, Religion, and Neuroscience -- Western Perspectives on Mystical Experiences -- Is Mysticism a Kind of Schizophrenia in Disguise? -- The Semantics of Self -- Constructing Our Self -- Some ABCs of the -- The Zen Mirror: Beyond Narcissism -- and Depersonalization