Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying · an Exploration of Consciousness With the Dalai Lama by Lama, Dalai -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama A Prelude to the Journey

Charting Ego’s Shadow Zones Cross-Cultural Dialogue and the Mind and Life Conferences

Chapter 1: What’s in a Self?

A History of the Concept of Self Self-Exploration and Modernity Science and the Self The Self and Humanism Non-Self in the West

Chapter 2: Brain’s Sleep

Sleep in Neuroscience Early Ideas The Basics of the EEG Sleep Patterns Characterizing REM Sleep Dreaming and REM Sleep in Evolutionary Perspective Why Do We Sleep? Dreams in the Tibetan Tradition Dissolution in Sleep and Death Are There Correlates of Subtle Mind? Intention and Effort in Practice Sleep, Orgasm, and Death Awareness and Discontinuities

Chapter 3: Dreams and the Unconscious

Psychoanalysis in Western Culture Freud and Company A Topography of the Mind Dreaming and the Unconscious Narcissism Dreams, the Royal Road to the Unconscious Marie-Josée’s Story Beyond Freud Is There an Unconscious in Buddhist Teaching? On the Complex Inheritance of Mental Tendencies Foundation Consciousness and the Unconscious Imprints and the “Mere-I” More on Mere Identities Gross and Subtle Mind Conventional Designation Psychoanalysis as Science?

Chapter 4: Lucid Dreaming

Evidence for Lucidity How Common Is Lucidity? Traits of Lucid Dreamers Inducing Lucid Dreaming Lucidity and Witnessing

Chapter 5: Levels of Consciousness and Dream Yoga

The Notion of a Self Self and Action Motivation for Action Is Mental Levels of Consciousness Types of Causal Connections Foundation Consciousness Continuity of Levels Mental Factors and Sleep Clear Light, Subtle Self The Cycle of Embodiments Dream Yoga

Chapter 6: Death and Christianity

Christianity and the Love of God Death in the Christian Tradition Attitudes Toward Death in the West Secular Attitudes Toward Death

Chapter 7: What Is Bodily Death?

The Western Medical Definition of Death A Buddhist Definition of Death Interlude: A Conversation on Body Transplants Brain Death Brain Correlates of Consciousness Alterations of Consciousness Epilepsies Epilepsy and Tibetan Medicine Indications of Death in the Tibetan Tradition Stages of Death Gross and Subtle Levels of Mind Gross and Subtle Sexual Intercourse Transference of Consciousness Experimental Occasions for Subtle Mind

Chapter 8: Near-Death Experiences

Death as Rite of Passage Exploring the Edge of Death Archaeology of Death Rituals Western Discovery of the Afterlife Testimonies and Their Patterns Detailed Nature of Near-Death Experiences Feelings and Sensations Core Experiences Company and Well-Being Some Materialistic Perspectives Possession and Epilepsy Near-Death Experiences and Buddhist Teachings Near-Death Experiences and the Clear Light

Coda: Reflections on the Journey

Winding Down What We Learned Return

Appendix: About the Mind and Life Institute, Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Contributors Index