Griffin and Tyrrell

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.

 

                     Curtain Raiser

                     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

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