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Tables of Contents for Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
1
2
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A Prelude to the Journey
3
2
Charting Ego's Shadow Zones
5
3
Cross-Cultural Dialogue and the Mind and Life Conferences
8
3
Chapter 1: What's in a Self?
11
12
A History of the Concept of Self
11
3
Self-Exploration and Modernity
14
2
Science and the Self
16
2
The Self and Humanism
18
1
Non-Self in the West
19
4
Chapter 2: Brain's Sleep
23
20
Sleep in Neuroscience
23
1
Early Ideas
24
1
The Basics of the EEG
24
3
Sleep Patterns
27
3
Characterizing REM Sleep
30
2
Dreaming and REM
32
1
Sleep in Evolutionary Perspective
33
2
Why Do We Sleep?
35
3
Dreams in the Tibetan Tradition
38
5
Dissolution in Sleep and Death
43
2
Are There Correlates of Subtle Mind?
45
3
Intention and Effort in Practice
48
1
Sleep, Orgasm, and Death
49
1
Awareness and Discontinuities
50
3
Chapter 3: Dreams and the Unconscious
53
48
Psychoanalysis in Western Culture
53
1
Freud and Company
54
1
A Topography of the Mind
55
1
Dreaming and the Unconscious
56
4
Narcissism
60
1
Dreams, the Royal Road to the Unconscious
61
5
Marie-Josee's Story
66
10
Beyond Freud
76
3
Is There an Unconscious in Buddhist Teaching?
79
3
On the Complex Inheritance of Mental Tendencies
82
4
Foundation Consciousness and the Unconscious
86
2
Imprints and the "Mere-I"
88
8
More on Mere Identities
90
2
Gross and Subtle Mind
92
3
Conventional Designation
95
3
Psychoanalysis as Science?
98
3
Chapter 4: Lucid Dreaming
101
10
Evidence for Lucidity
101
2
How Common Is Lucidity?
103
1
Traits of Lucid Dreamers
104
2
Inducing Lucid Dreaming
106
1
Lucidity and Witnessing
107
4
Chapter 5: Levels of Consciousness and Dream Yoga
111
20
The Notion of a Self
111
2
Self and Action
113
2
Motivation for Action Is Mental
115
3
Levels of Consciousness
118
1
Types of Causal Connections
119
1
Foundation Consciousness
120
2
Continuity of Levels
122
1
Mental Factors and Sleep
123
1
Clear Light, Subtle Self
124
2
The Cycle of Embodiments
126
1
Dream Yoga
127
4
Chapter 6: Death and Christianity
131
6
Christianity and the Love of God
131
1
Death in the Christian Tradition
132
2
Attitudes Toward Death in the West
134
1
Secular Attitudes Toward Death
135
2
Chapter 7: What Is Bodily Death?
137
40
The Western Medical Definition of Death
137
3
A Buddhist Definition of Death
140
1
Interlude: A Conversation on Body Transplants
141
3
Brain Death
144
2
Brain Correlates of Consciousness
146
2
Alterations of Consciousness
148
6
Epilepsies
154
4
Epilepsy and Tibetan Medicine
158
3
Indications of Death in the Tibetan Tradition
161
1
Stages of Death
162
2
Gross and Subtle Levels of Mind
164
7
Gross and Subtle Sexual Intercourse
171
2
Transference of Consciousness
173
2
Experimental Occasions for Subtle Mind
175
2
Chapter 8: Near-Death Experiences
177
38
Death as Rite of Passage
177
1
Exploring the Edge of Death
178
2
Archaeology of Death Rituals
180
1
Western Discovery of the Afterlife
181
1
Testimonies and Their Patterns
182
6
Detailed Nature of Near-Death Experiences
188
3
Feelings and Sensations
191
2
Core Experiences
193
4
Company and Well-Being
197
1
Some Materialistic Perspectives
198
4
Possession and Epilepsy
202
2
Near-Death Experiences and Buddhist Teachings
204
4
Near-Death Experiences and the Clear Light
208
7
Coda: Reflections on the Journey
215
4
Winding Down
215
1
What We Learned
215
3
Return
218
1
Appendix: About the Mind and Life Institute, Acknowledgments
219
6
Notes
225
2
Glossary
227
16
Contributors
243
4
Index
247