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The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Consciousness, Mysticism And Psi, Les Lancaster
The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Consciousness, Mysticism And Psi, Les Lancaster
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
The greatest contemporary challenge in the arena of cognitive neuroscience concerns the
relation between consciousness and the brain. Over recent years the focus of work in this
area has switched from the analysis of diverse spatial regions of the brain to that of the
timing of neural events. It appears that two conditions are necessary in order for neural
events to become correlated with conscious experience. First, the firing of assemblies of
neurones must achieve a degree of coherence, and, second, reflexive (i.e. top-down, or reentrant)
neural pathways must be activated. It does not, of course, follow that such neural …