The Emerging Mind [Hardcover]

Karen Nesbitt Shanor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

Larry King has said: "The Emerging Mind is one of the most fascinating and helpful books I have ever read." Is your big toe capable of thinking? Who's driving your car while you're busy daydreaming? What goes on on your mind while you sleep? Can our thoughts really influence others or create physical objects? Dr. Shanor shows us how we can change our lives by tapping into the deepest layers of our minds and explains the power and science behind "The Internet of the Mind." (For example, teleportation -- exemplified in Star Trek's "Beam Me Up Scotty,"-- has now been demonstrated in a scientific lab and might explain what happens to our thought waves.) With the help of Deepak Chopra, Karl Pribram and other internationally renowned experts who participated in her acclaimed Smithsonian lecture series, she also delves into such fascinating areas as hypnosis, mind-body medicine, the development of "self," preventing ADD in children, multiple personalities, and our many states of consciousness during sex, sports, or while watching television or using the computer. Dr. Shanor helps readers with some of the issues we face everyday, including improving self esteem, alleviating depression, creating the relationship we truly desire, and overcoming addictions to alcohol and drugs. Read this book and take a quantum leap in your understanding of the mind and improving your life.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"'The Emerging Mind' is one of the most fascinating and helpful books I've ever read."--Larry King

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Karen Nesbitt Shanor, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in Washington D.C.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 254 pages
• Publisher: Renaissance Books; 1st edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158063057X
• ISBN-13: 978-1580630573
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,758,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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93 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last! A High Level View for the Layman, March 8, 2000

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Angel Woodman (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Emerging Mind (Hardcover)

Dr. Shanor has bridged the gap between complex academic research and the lay readers' never ending curiousity about "what, simply, makes us tick." She has presented very clearly a new "language of the mind and spirit." This language helps to better describe our human functions and dysfunctions, to explain new cross discipline research findings (Neuro-paths and Faith?), to raise issues for further investigation, and to weave Western and Eastern spiritual/medical philosophies toward mutually supporting world views.

She systematically presents to the reader many interesting and critical contemporary concepts in neuro-biology, psychology, phenomenology, physics, health and healing, hypnosis and dreams, the conscious and the subconscious realms.

The book is emminently readable. Each of her supporting contributors (Chopra, Pribram, Putnam, Gachenbach, and Spencer) is a formidable expert in his or her field(s). And there is humor in the Truths she is addressing. Enjoy!

73 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and well done!, January 19, 2000

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Emerging Mind (Hardcover)

What do you think about while you are sleeping? Does you mind and body have some sort of connection to each other? Is it possible for to unlock your full potential? In the book The Emerging mind you may find these answers and so much more.

Doctor Shanor has written a book that takes a completely new look and how the mind really works. Shanor's communicates ideas that may be difficult for most to understand, but after reading this book I was amazed at how simple they are.

Along with experts like Deepak Chopra, Karl Pribram, Frank Putnam and others you'll with find ways to help improve your life and make it easier to for you to begin down the road to success. Doctor Shanor and others give you a glimpse into this new realm.

Find out how to gain esteem and self-importance, work on overcoming addictions, building and creating lasting relationships and so much more. Not a "standard" self-help book, The Emerging Mind is just what the doctor ordered.

52 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pop Psych, May 7, 2000

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daibando (Thailand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Emerging Mind (Hardcover)

"The Emerging Mind explains how you can solve everyday problems by understanding the inner workings of your most precious resource---your mind."

Solve problems? When I read the above from Amazon's editorial review, I thought the book would include some instruction and exercises - like a "How to" book.

With that scenario in mind, I began reading.

Frank Putnam MD describes how a person with MPD, (Multiple Personality Disorder), who normally must wear eyeglasses can have 20/20 vision when being another personality. ("Fantastic, I thought! - maybe I can learn how such a thing is possible.") But there wasn't another word about it.

John Spencer, Ph.D. describes in wonderful detail what he experienced when some guy in Kansas waved his hands over him, and cured his ongoing sinus and headache problem - permanently. ("Great! Maybe he's going to tell how that was done.") No such luck. Not even a hint as to where to find this guy. (A city would have been enough. I'll guess Kansas City.) Instead he writes about skeptics.

Then, when the discussion turned to self hypnosis, I really dug in, with an "O-boy-this-is-gonna be-good!" attitude. Here's a book, (I thought), that includes instruction on self hypnosis written by someone with a bunch of letters after her name. However, by the time I neared the last chapter I realized instruction on self hypnosis would not be forthcoming. Not a word of it. I was very disappointed. There wasn't even a reference to another self hypnosis book. Instead, she also talks about skeptics. I stopped reading. I finally realized this isn't the kind of book I thought it was.

Well, just what IS the purpose of this book?

My guess is: besides trying to make a few bucks, it is a discussion about how modern science is finally realizing that the Spirit of Man is a very real entity. It surpasses the test tubes, couches, drugs and patent remedies. It goes way beyond how medicine attempts to heal the body and the mind.

Spirit can heal. It can change the destiny of a very sick world. It can work miracles. I've known this for 64 years. I think a lot of us have.

Perhaps the upside of Emerging Mind is reading that some Ph.Ds and MDs in the west are finally discovering and accepting what has been known in the east for a few thousand years. Maybe they will include it in their treatments.

No, probably not. If everyone gets permanently well by Spirit, medicine will be obsolete, and these doctor/writer/lecturer people will be out of a job.

If you really want to read about what the mind can do, better you can read: The Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda. If you want actual instruction in healing, freeing the mind and realizing your Spiritual Self, using physical exercises and meditation, the same author offers a three year course by mail. (Available through Self Realization Fellowship).