- Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
- Cover
- Title
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- A Prelude to the Journey
- Chapter 1: What’s in a Self?
- 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
- Chapter 5: Levels of Consciousness and Dream Yoga
- Chapter 6: Death and Christianity
- 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
- Appendix: About the Mind and Life Institute, Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
- More Wisdom from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- About His Holiness The Dalai Lama
- Copyright
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