New Releases
Robert Ornstein: The Psychology of Conscious Evolution Trilogy
God 4.0, Robert Ornstein’s much anticipated final work, completes his definitive Psychology of Conscious Evolution Trilogy. The three books together offer a fresh perspective on ancient religious and spiritual traditions in the light of advances in brain science and psychology – a groundbreaking view of critical importance to our shared future.
God-4.0
“A fitting final chapter in the canon of an innovative psychologist. This book carefully balances readability and scientific complexity in its quest to find explanations for the near ubiquity of spirituality in humanity’s history, and the author displays a firm command of information regarding world religion, secular history, and cutting-edge science and psychological theory”
– Kirkus Reviews
Evolution of Consciousness
What is your mind? How is it that, like the proverbial fish in the ocean, we know so little about something that controls every aspect of our individual and collective lives?Passionate, entertaining and provocative, The Evolution of Consciousness is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about the human mind and how it works.
The Psychology of Consciousness
In this new fourth edition of his revolutionary study, Robert Ornstein reexamines what is known about consciousness and why this understanding is so important at this time of enormous challenge, change and potential.
Past Releases
Awakening Young Minds
A perennial challenge for educators, writes Nessel, is one Plato addressed in The Republic: “how to avoid simply feeding students information and instead get them to use their innate capacities and think for themselves.”
Battle for the Mind
How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a prisoner of war sign a confession‚ that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt?
Burnout
Christina Maslach’s pioneering work offers fresh perspectives on understanding burnout—the feeling of emotional exhaustion, the sense of indifference, and the belief in our ability to help others.
Darwin and Facial Expression
Paul Ekman and a cast of other notable scholars and scientists reconsider central concepts and key sources of information in Darwin’s work on emotional expression.
Emotion in the Human Face
The author examines research as to whether the face provides accurate information about emotion, and whether some facial expressions are universal.
The Golden Door
One of the most potentially disastrous consequences of global warming is likely to be the massive migration of displaced populations, including many of the world’s poorest.
The Healing Brain
This pioneering book helped to bring about a new way of looking at the brain, one which restored the perspective that the major role of the brain is to mind the body and maintain health.
The Manipulated Mind
Most of us cherish our values of individual freedom of thought. Yet after the Korean War, American POW's fell greater victim to Chinese brainwashing techniques than those of other nationalities.
Meditation and Modern Psychology
Robert Ornstein examines meditation from the perspectives of religions and philosophies such as Zen, Yoga, the Sufis and Christian mystics, and the perspective of modern psychology.
The Mind Field
The rational Western perception of consciousness has been challenged by an Eastern discipline which brings into sharp focus the travesty and deception underlying many of the contemporary awareness movements.
MindReal
One of the most startling findings of modern science is that we don’t experience the world as it is, but as virtual reality.
MultiMind
"Stuck side by side, inside the skin, inside the skull, are several special purpose, separate, and specific small minds... although our illusion is that each of us is somehow unified...."
New World New Mind
We don’t have time to rely on the pace of cultural evolution to deal with today’s dilemmas. How do we generate the social and political will to move a program of conscious evolution to the top of the human agenda?
Origins of Mental Illness
The author explains that "psychiatric disorders" even in their most severe forms are abnormal manifestations of temperamental and personality characteristics we all possess to a greater or lesser degree.
The Shy Child
Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." In this book, the authors present a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulthood.
Sounds from the Bell Jar
The authors explore the lives and works of 10 authors, among them Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, who embody both serious mental illness and great originality of thought.
The Teachers of Gurdjieff
When The Teachers of Gurdjieffwas first published some 25 years ago, it made a very considerable stir. George Gurdjieff was one of the most famous mystics before the war, a teaching master who had many fashionable and influential pupils.
Unmasking the Face
The authors explain how to identify basic emotions correctly from facial expressions and how to tell when people try to mask, simulate, or neutralize them.
