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On the Psychology of Meditation
ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDITATION, CLAUDIO NARANJO, ROBERT E. ORNSTEIN, 1976 EDITION.
246 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1971
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Robert Ornstein
28 books99 followersPsychologist Robert Ornstein's wide-ranging and multidisciplinary work has won him awards from more than a dozen organizations, including the American Psychological Association and UNESCO. His pioneering research on the bilateral specialization of the brain has done much to advance our understanding of how we think.
He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from City University of New York in 1964 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1968. His doctoral thesis won the American Institutes for Research Creative Talent Award and was published immediately as a book, On the Experience of Time.
Since then he has written or co-written more than twenty other books on the nature of the human mind and brain and their relationship to thought, health and individual and social consciousness, which have sold over six million copies and been translated into a dozen other languages. His textbooks have been used in more than 20,000 university classes.
Dr. Ornstein has taught at the University of California Medical Center and Stanford University, and he has lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. and overseas. He is the president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK), an educational nonprofit dedicated to bringing important discoveries concerning human nature to the general public.
Among his many honors and awards are the UNESCO award for Best Contribution to Psychology and the American Psychological Foundation Media Award "for increasing the public understanding of psychology."
He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from City University of New York in 1964 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1968. His doctoral thesis won the American Institutes for Research Creative Talent Award and was published immediately as a book, On the Experience of Time.
Since then he has written or co-written more than twenty other books on the nature of the human mind and brain and their relationship to thought, health and individual and social consciousness, which have sold over six million copies and been translated into a dozen other languages. His textbooks have been used in more than 20,000 university classes.
Dr. Ornstein has taught at the University of California Medical Center and Stanford University, and he has lectured at more than 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. and overseas. He is the president and founder of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK), an educational nonprofit dedicated to bringing important discoveries concerning human nature to the general public.
Among his many honors and awards are the UNESCO award for Best Contribution to Psychology and the American Psychological Foundation Media Award "for increasing the public understanding of psychology."
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September 12, 2020A two-part book about meditation, the first part exploring the spiritual avenues of meditation and the second describing the physiological implications and further research needed to make determinations about benefits of meditation. The book was written almost 50 years ago but especially the first part gave me a good basis of the different forms of meditation and how they are related to some of the world's major religions.
About the writing - it seemed to be overall fairly succinct and easy to digest even for someone who does not have a background in psychology.
About the writing - it seemed to be overall fairly succinct and easy to digest even for someone who does not have a background in psychology.
March 29, 2008
This is a essentially two books in one. The first half of the book by Claudio Naranjo is a survey of the types of meditation practiced around the world in different religious contexts. The second half of the book by Robert Ornstein reviews the state of psychological research into meditation. He is highly dependent on Deikman's work, who in the 1960s did the first serious research into meditation in the West. He also surveys the studies that had been conducted on Zen masters in Japan.
It is excellent background reading for people interested in meditation, altered states of consciousness, ESP, and transpersonal psychology.
It is excellent background reading for people interested in meditation, altered states of consciousness, ESP, and transpersonal psychology.
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