Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

by Jean Houston

Overview

This essay, chapter 25 of Psychic Exploration, explores the crisis of consciousness and its historical analogies and suggests that the mythic persona emerging from the crisis points toward a new image of man and a new possibility for humanity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944529314
Publisher:	Cosimo Books
Publication date:	05/01/2016
Series:	Psychic Exploration
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	23
File size:	808 KB

About the Author

JEAN HOUSTON, Ph.D., co-founded the Foundation for Mind Research near New York City. A graduate of Barnard College, Dr. Houston holds a doctorate in psychology and has served on the faculties of religion, philosophy, and ps­chology at Columbia, Hunter College, the New School for Social Research, and Marymount College. Since 1964 Dr. Houston and her co-workers at the foundation have pursued an extensive nondrug study of altered states of consciousness, accelerated learning, audiovisual environments, internal imagery processes, alternate cognitive modes, subjective time, biofeedback training, the psychology of the creative process and its induction, and the laboratory study of religious-type experiences. She defines this work as the potentiation of latent human capacities. With her husband, Robert Masters, she has written several books on this and other research.