Tuning the Mind: Geometries of Consciousness - Holonomic Brain Theory and The Implicate Order

by Shelli Joye

This book is about consciousness and how it is structured. Presented here is a map of consciousness which I hope will help others in their explorations of consciousness, whether undertaken through drugs, prayer, meditation, dreams, or physical exercises. I have been passionately seeking to draw this map of consciousness for almost fifty years now, ever since, as a young physics and engineering student between semesters at Rice University (during the “Summer of Love” in 1967) I first experienced the full impact of ranges and dimensions of consciousness beyond anything I could have previously imagined. My lifelong search for a map of consciousness began around a small campfire on a lovely Pacific ocean beach just south of Big Sur, California, shortly after ingesting a little yellow pill of LSD (“Owsley acid”) at around 10 pm.
Having just completed my third year of an electrical engineering program, my vision of the universe was deeply influenced by such things as frequency charts, Fourier and Laplace transform equations, and electromagnetic theories describing an invisible energy. Suddenly all of these dry theories became vividly real to me, overlayed and energized by the direct visual, auditory, and tactile experiences other entities in an enormous ocean of energy, an ocean of consciousness that I had never realized lay beyond the shores of my own familiar mind, and I realized that we are all immersed in planetary and galactic energy fields swirling in and out of our own limited islands of consciousness. The map of consciousness presented in this book is supported both by direct experience as well as major concepts that have emerged in modern quantum physics and brain research, including the “holonomic mind/brain” theory of Karl Pribram and the “Implicate/Explicate orders” developed by the quantum physicist David Bohm.

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2017