Mind S Eye

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307366368

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From the author of the #1 national bestselling Musicophilia comes a truly visionary book: an exploration of the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains cope with the loss of sight by finding new forms of perception to create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world. Following the phenomenal success of his international bestseller Musicophilia, the inimitable Oliver Sacks returns with another book on the extraordinary interaction between our brain and our senses — in this case, vision. In The Mind's Eye, Sacks examines questions ranging from the primary experiences of how we perceive depth or color or motion to the complex matter of how different individuals have varied ways of thinking and experiencing or recreating the visual world. Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks's new book is based primarily on individual stories — including Sacks's own experience of an ocular tumor that left him unable to perceive depth. As always, he embeds these case histories in a rich historical and scientific context. Sacks goes beyond basic vision to explore perception, hallucination and the power of visualization, as well as the ocular effects of migraine, epilepsy and other conditions. Oliver Sacks is our perfect guide to the visual world, a realm that, it turns out, is much, much more complicated than we could have imagined.

Author : Keagan Caea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686385064

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Mind's Eye Vision by Keagan Caea Pdf

We live in a world of shadows and illusions, and of lies and deception. Finding our way through this stifling darkness requires that we learn how to recognize fraudulent distortion in all its forms. Shunning any and every preconceived notion that has been planted, and giving ourselves the ability to truly understand our own truth. This is what we call MIND'S EYE VISION, which is the ability to see with the mind and not only the eyes. And is something that is critical to our wellbeing for while the eyes sees mostly illusions, an awaken mind has the ability to see through all deception. This book has been written with one sole purpose, which is to remove the veil has placed over our eyes, and to break the chains that have been used to shackle our minds. It is a very short book consisting of only three chapters, but the words that lie within are sharper than the blade of a razor. Each chapter is separated into what the author conveniently call keys, because they are the keys to conquests for anyone who manages to attain mastery of them, and must thus be carefully articulated for they will only serve to sharpen the mind.One has to tread very carefully for knowledge of this caliber has the ability to blow minds to oblivion, and is ultimately dependent on the individual's level of enlightenment, something that negates the effect of the shock and softens the blow of what is revealed.As individuals we must learn how to comprehend the nature of the world we live in, to develop a heighten sense of things, and to see people and organizations for what they really are and not what they present themselves as. Accomplishing this will demand self discipline, and a conviction that will strengthen our resolve by ensuring that we deduce the truth behind our own history. A history that must be extrapolated from the wisdom that is attained through evidence, and one that will allow us TO KNOW THY ORIGINS, TO KNOW THY SELF, and TO KNOW THY ENEMY.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2023347939

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Author : Mike Samuels,Nancy Samuels
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fantasy
ISBN : UOM:49015002332584

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Seeing with the Mind's Eye by Mike Samuels,Nancy Samuels Pdf

This book opens the mind's eye to the inner world - whether as memories, fantasies, dreams, or visions. Over 100 illustrations.

Author : Ian Robertson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429979825

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Opening the Mind's Eye by Ian Robertson Pdf

Ian Robertson has always been fascinated by how the mind makes images, for that awesome power directly and deeply affects our lives. All of us "visualize" the world differently, and how we do so dictates the way we feel, remember, and think--and therefore our health, memory, and creativity. In this lively, accessible and fascinating book, Robertson explains that most of us employ language as a basis for visualization. In effect, we think in words more than in images. The result is an imbalance between the logical and the intuitive, between imagery-based thought and language-based thought. Opening the Mind's Eye is both an enlightening and stimulating explanation of how we "see," and a compelling argument for extending the mind's powers to improve the quality of our lives. Like Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, it combines insight and application.

Author : Judith Mason
Publisher : Books & Books Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0991327152

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This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never a photograph or diagram in sight. Your mind's eye will create all the images in this text, and each mind is unique. Getting these, and other images, down on paper will provide you with fun, frustration, joy and despair. Like life.

Author : Eugene S. Ferguson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 026256078X

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Engineering and the Mind's Eye by Eugene S. Ferguson Pdf

In this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.

Author : Mike Samuels,Nancy Samuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164917799

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Seeing with the mind's eye by Mike Samuels,Nancy Samuels Pdf

Author : Robert Sommer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fantasy
ISBN : 038528439X

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Author : Ian Robertson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781446423288

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The Mind's Eye by Ian Robertson Pdf

A picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say. Yet our world, our civilisation has grown up on a foundation of words - laws, constitutions, treaties, charters, creeds - words that have tamed and liberated in equal measure. Our education, from earliest childhood, emphasises the importance of words. We take the world before our eyes and define it in a verbal language, and in so doing we capture it, understand it, celebrate it. But there are costs. In our reliance on the cold efficency of language we have neglected the wordless ways of the brain. The uniquely complex human mind is capable of the most exquisite images and visions. But visualisation is not merely about sight and the imagined, it is about the way we interact with the world through our five senses. In THE MIND'S EYE Ian Robertson demonstrates how we are underutilising our brain's powers of visualisation. Taking the lessons of hard science, he explains how the brain works and how important visualisation can be. But more importantly, how we can all unleash the awesome power of our brains. Following simple exercises Ian Robertson describes how visualisation can: improve memory and learning power be the key to creative thinking and problem solving offer powerful ways of combating stress fight physical illness and pain enrich musical and artistic experience enhance sporting skill and strength In his trademark accessible and imaginative style, Ian Robertson brings to life the hidden workings of the brain, and teaches us all how we can best capitalise on our inate abilities. A must read for anyone interested in how the brain works, or unlocking our mind's full potential.

Author : Nigel K Perrymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798539351946

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The Mind's Eye is a remarkable modern-day approach to principles that have been on the Earth for thousands of years. The Mind's Eye is an intimate story and experience of the process one has to take in order to create success, wealth, fame and family closeness. It comes from a person who was deemed a statistical loser by society and whose entire life was turned upside down by a single thought. The main ingredient in The Mind's Eye is the introduction of God's Divine Energy, the Power of Belief and a new concept of recognizing and acknowledging the visual miracles within one's own Mind's Eye, a thought within your mind. The Power of Belief is so powerful, that within the lightning strike of a single thought everything in existence has become a reality. Believe it!

Author : Douglas E Richards
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783013289

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Mind's Eye by Douglas E Richards Pdf

Nick Hall has no memory and is being hunted by ruthless killers. He soon discovers he has brain implants allowing him to surf the web with his thoughts alone, and read minds. But who planted the implants? And why? The answers can either catapult civilization to new heights-or bring society to its knees. (Extrapolated from actual research).

Author : C. Anthony Sherman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1720158657

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A View Into My Minds Eye by C. Anthony Sherman Pdf

This book captures the essence of the Authors life experiences, observations, and emotions, as they were pressed through his mind's eye. As you read this body of work, you will feel empathy, sadness, elation, and motivation through the creative expressions of poetry and poems. Although written for his present and future grandchildren for them to know him, you, too, will come to know an Artist, Author, Counselor and Observer of Humanity through his mind's eye.

Author : Jeremy Frommer
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781576877302

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Omni was a jewel among popular science magazines of its era (1978–1998). Science Digest, Science News, Scientific America, and Discover may have all been selling well to armchair scientists, but Omni masterfully blended cutting edge science news and science fiction, flashy graphic design, a touch of sex, and the images of a generation of artists completely free and unburdened by the disciplines of the masters. Created by the legendary Bob Guccione, better known for founding Penthouse than perhaps any of the other facets of his inspired career in business, art, and literature, Guccione handpicked the artists and illustrators that contributed to the Omni legacy—they in turn created works ignited by passion and intellect, two of Guccione's principal ideals. The Mind's Eye: The Art of Omni is the very first publication to celebrate in stunning detail the exceptional science fiction imagery of this era in an oversized format. The Mind's Eye contains 185 images from contributing Omni artists including John Berkey, Chris Moore, H.R. Giger, Rafal Olbinski, Rallé, Tsuneo Sanda, Hajime Sorayama, Robert McCall, and Colin Hay among many more, along with quotes from artists, contributors, writers, and critics. Omni lived in a time well before the digital revolution. The images you see on these pages have taken years to track down and brought the editors in touch with many esteemed artists, amazing photographers and dusty storage lockers. Their quest is far from over; you'll notice an almost decade-long gap in the material, the contents of which were either lost or destroyed. Efforts to search throughout the universe for any images will continue and will be shared with the world at the all-things-Omni website, omnireboot.com. Stay tuned... Collected in book form for the first time ever, the striking art from this extraordinary magazine will delight fans who remember seeing the work years ago and newcomers interested in the unique aesthetic of this genre's biggest artists. "Omni was a magazine about the future. From 1978 to 1998 Omni blew minds by regularly featuring extensive Q&As with some of the top scientists of the 20th century—E.O. Wilson, Francis Crick, Jonas Salk—tales of the paranormal, and some of the most important science fiction to ever see magazine publication: William Gibson's genre-defining stories 'Burning Chrome' and 'Johnny Mnemonic,' Orson Scott Card's 'Unaccompanied Sonata,' novellas by Harlan Ellison and George R. R. Martin, 'Thanksgiving,' a postapocalyptic tale by Joyce Carol Oates—even William S. Burroughs graced its pages." —Vice magazine, Motherboard "Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years...Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at." —Ben Bova, six-time Hugo award winner

Author : Edmund Blunden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : LCCN:34031279

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