{"product_id":"communing-with-the-gods-charles-d-laughlin-9780980711165","title":"Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain","description":"Communing with the Gods presents the most comprehensive account of culture and dreaming available in the anthropology of dreaming, and is written by an anthropologist who is also trained in neuroscience, and who is himself a lucid dreamer and Tibetan Tantric dream yoga practitioner. ｬThe book examines the place of dreaming in the experience of peoples from diverse cultures and historical backgrounds. ｬCommuning with the Gods surveys anthropological theories of dreaming, what we know about how the brain produces dreams and why, and lucid dream research and how the notion of lucidity applies to dreaming of traditional societies. It explores the ways that societies encourage, evoke, experience and interpret dreams, as well as how people act in response to information obtained in the dream state. A comprehensive theory of brain, culture and dreaming is presented that explains the neurobiological functions of sleep and dreaming, the evolution of dreaming, the universality of, and cultural variation in dream elements, and the role of dreaming as a system of intra-psychic communication. ｬThis theory is then applied to an examination of dreaming in modern society. The book discusses how modern dream-work may ameliorate wide-spread alienation, spiritual exhaustion and despair in modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles D. Laughlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0980711169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780980711165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Daily Grail Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Charles D. Laughlin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926966436095,"sku":"9780980711165","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_856ccfbd-10f5-49ea-87d3-4fd78c7dcd21.jpg?v=1681086031","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/communing-with-the-gods-charles-d-laughlin-9780980711165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}