Best Psychology & Neuroscience Books of 2014 (according to me)

Here are some of the best books I have been exposed to this year. Obviously, I cannot read everything, so this is a partial list at best. They are listed in alphabetical order. Descriptive text is from the publisher’s blurb on Amazon. A few of these books warrant the RECOMMENDED READ classification. Adult Attachment Patterns … Read more

Thomas Roberts – What Is Philosophy’s Greatest Opportunity? — An Essay on Multistate Philosophy

Thomas Roberts is the author of The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values (2013) and Psychedelic Horizons (2006), among other works. The paper below is posted at Academia.edu – it looks at re-visioning our understanding of consciousness from a singlestate model to a multistate model. As … Read more

Nathan A. Thompson – True Secrets of Psychedelics: Are They Everything They’re Cracked Up to Be?

On the heals of the Sam Harris article on hallucinogens I posted earlier today, here is a similar article from Salon. This article, however, focuses on psychedelics as a vehicle to open us up to the spiritual. But once we get a taste, the recommendation is to take up a practice that can provide continuous … Read more