Beyond the Conscious Mind: Unlocking the Secrets of the SelfA new understanding of consciousness that helps you to better understand your own and others behavior. Your mind is a self-organized team of specialized independent modules that each take control of your behavior depending upon context. One of these modules, the "self-module," is the verbal interpreter of all of your behavior. However this self-module only controls behavior when you are using self-control. Introspection is thus usually nothing more than self-serving rationalization. Using experimental evidence Blakeslee clearly demonstrates the many mental illusions created by this flawed understanding of self and helps you to develop a new, more accurate, self-concept. |
Contents
Sports and Creative Thinking Modules | 24 |
You Do That? | 46 |
Time and Consciousness | 51 |
Is Consciousness Continuous? | 61 |
Other Concepts of Self | 85 |
False Beliefs | 111 |
Mental Illness | 126 |
Belief in Magic | 133 |
Development of the SelfConcept | 192 |
Nonverbal Thinking | 199 |
The Reptilian Brain | 212 |
Silencing the Self Module | 219 |
LoveMerging | 227 |
The Empty Self | 245 |
The SplitBrain Experiments | 258 |
Notes | 273 |
Hypnosis and Other | 139 |
Psychotherapy | 153 |
The Infant Brain | 177 |
The Beginnings of Spontaneous Organization | 183 |
Selected Bibliography | 291 |
36 | 303 |
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