Table of Contents
1 Welcome 1
The Mind's Curiosity About Itself 5
A Common View: The Mind Is What the Brain Does 7
Our Identity and the Internal and Relational Origin of Mind 12
Why this Book About the Mind? 13
An Invitation 16
The Approach of Our Journey 17
Words Reflecting on Reflecting Words 20
2 What Is the Mind? 26
Working on a Working Definition of Mind (1990-1995) 26
The System of Mind: Complex Systems, Emergence, and Causality 42
Reflections and Invitations: Self-Organization of Energy and Information Flow 51
3 How Does the Mind Work in Ease and Dis-Ease? 62
Self-Organization, Lost and Found (1995-2000) 63
Differentiation and Linkage: The Integration of Healthy Minds 75
Reflections and Invitations: Integration and Well-Being? 85
4 Is the Mind's Subjective Reality Real? 99
Adapting to a Medical World that had Lost Its Mind (1980-1985) 100
Mind sight in Health and Healing 110
Reflections and Invitations: The Centrality of Subjectivity 115
5 Who Are We? 123
Exploring the Layers of Experience Beneath Identity (1975-1980) 124
Top-Down and Bottom-Up 127
Reflections and Invitations; Identity, Self, and Mind 140
6 Where Is Mind? 145
Could Mind Be Distributed Beyond the Individual? (1983-1990) 145
Neuroplasticity and Cultural Systems 177
Reflections and Invitations; Within and Between 182
7 A Why of Mind? 188
Meaning and Mind, Science and Spirituality (2000-2005) 188
Integration as the "Purpose of Life?" 200
Reflections and Invitations; Purpose and Meaning 206
8 When Is Mind? 212
Exploring Presence in Mind and Moment (2005-2010) 212
Attunement, Integration, and Time 227
Reflections and Imitations; Awareness and Time 235
9 A Continuum Connecting Consciousness, Cognition, and Community? 257
Integrating Consciousness, Illuminating Mind (2010-2015) 258
Consciousness, Non-Consciousness, and Presence 277
Reflections and Invitations: Cultivating Presence 287
10 Humankind: Can We Be Both? 302
Being, Doing, and Integrating Mind (2015-eternal present) 302
The Systems of a Plural Self and Integration of Identity 316
Reflections and Invitations: MWe, an Integrating Self, and a Kind Mind 323