TY - BOOK AU - Das,J P TI - Consciousness quest : where East meets West : on mind, meditation, and neural correlates SN - 9788132113492 AV - BF201 .D37 2014 U1 - 153 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Sage KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Research KW - Consciousness N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-300) and index; Foreword / by K. Ramakrishna Rao -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Concept of consciousness and Indian theories of mind -- Cognition, neuropsychology, and consciousness -- Experience of consciousness : eastern phenomenology -- Explanations from neuroscience -- Consciousness and meditation : at the intersection of eastern traditions -- And neuroscience -- Foundations of mindfulness -- Interpretations of mindfulness -- A comparison of two cognitive processing models : the Abhidhamma and PASS -- Contemporary western research : from Julian Jaynes to Eckhart Tolle -- Talking about consciousness, self-knowledge, access, and sentience -- Materialism and behaviorism in eastern philosophy and western psychology -- Material basis of consciousness -- Origin and uses of consciousness : in the beginning is its end -- Hard problems : legacy of ancient times -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author ER -