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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781620558188
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2019
Publisher: Inner Traditions


Description:
An exploration of mind design technologies and practices-mindapps-that boost intellectual capacity and enable new ways of thought and action

* Reveals how mindapps transform the patterns of our mind-body complex and help generate new ideas by enabling access to new mind states

* Examines the singlestate fallacy-the myth that useful thinking only occurs in our ordinary awake mental state

* Explores a wealth of mindapp practices and techniques, including microdosing with psychedelics, yoga and martial arts, hypnosis, breathing techniques, lucid dreaming, rites of passage, biofeedback and neurofeedback, and transcranial brain stimulation

Just as we can write and install apps in our electronic devices, we can construct mindapps and install them in our brain-mind complex, and as just as digital apps add capabilities to our devices, mindapps can expand our mental powers and creative abilities, allowing us to intentionally redesign our minds.

Using psychedelics as the prime example, Thomas B. Roberts explores the many different kinds of mindapps, including meditation, other psychoactive plants and chemicals, sensory overload and deprivation, biofeedback and neurofeedback, hypnosis and suggestion, sleep and lucid dreaming, creative imagery, transcranial brain stimulation and optical brain stimulation, rites of passage, martial arts and exercise routines, yoga, breathing techniques, and contemplative prayer. He also looks at the future of mindapps, the potential for new mindapps yet to be invented, and how installing mult