The Mind Field: A Personal Essay

By Robert Ornstein

Book Overview

For years, North Americans have been seeking rational, analytical answers to despair and anxiety. But now, this rational Western perception of consciousness has been challenged by an Eastern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670476277
• ISBN13: 9780670476275
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

In-between science and spirituality: parapsychology

In this book, Ornstein gives his opinion about the shortcomings of both pure psychology and pseudo-spiritual practices. As neither pure science nor pure spirituality can cover the whole spectrum of the human subjectivity field, both are required to understand the nature and the working of the human mind. Science analyzes, reasons, and is limited by its very rationality and consistency requirements. Any single-minded spirituality on the other hand cannot capture the whole range of possible subjective approaches of reality as seen by every human being. Overall, this book provides quite interesting insight and experience as seen from a professional psychologist who is deeply interested in understanding the mind, not just describing as are most blind scientists.