References and further reading

The numbered entries identify the sources cited in the chapters and notes. Primary texts are given priority. Dates attached to ancient and scriptural works are omitted where a single date would conceal a complex textual history. Translation choices matter; an English term such as mind, consciousness, spirit, or intellect should be read in the setting of the source rather than assumed to retain one meaning throughout this list.

[1] James, William. The Principles of Psychology. 1890. Volume I, especially chapters IX, The Stream of Thought, and XI, Attention. The linked text is a later reprint. Read the text.

[2] Koch, Christof, and Naotsugu Tsuchiya. “Attention and consciousness: two distinct brain processes.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11, no. 1 (2007): 16-22. DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2006.10.012. University record and abstract.

[3] Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy. 1641. Especially Meditation II. Descartes’ later mind-body distinction must be distinguished from the experiential starting point used in this book. Modernized English text.

[4] Chalmers, David J. “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 2, no. 3 (1995): 200-219. Especially the distinction between functional explanation and the hard problem. Author’s text.

[5] Augustine. Confessions. Book XI, especially the discussion of creation, eternity, and time. English text.

[6] Plato. Timaeus. Especially 30b-d and 34b-35a on intelligence, soul, and the cosmic body. Benjamin Jowett translation. Read the dialogue.

[7] Plotinus. Enneads. Especially V.1, V.2, and V.6 on the principal hypostases and what exceeds intellect. Translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page. The Fifth Ennead.

[8] Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. 1710; revised 1734. Especially sections 2-3, 27-33, and 146-147. Read the treatise.

[9] Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. 1781 and 1787. Especially the Transcendental Aesthetic and Refutation of Idealism. J. M. D. Meiklejohn translation. Read the text.

[10] Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation, also translated as The World as Will and Idea. First edition dated 1819. Volume I, especially Books I and II. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp translation. Read the text.

[11] Spinoza, Benedict de. Ethics. 1677. Part II, especially propositions 1-7 and 13. R. H. M. Elwes translation. Read the text.

[12] Strawson, Galen. “Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, nos. 10-11 (2006): 3-31. Paper hosted by San Jose State University.

[13] Kastrup, Bernardo. “The Universe in Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 25, nos. 5-6 (2018): 125-155. Publisher’s open-access paper.

[14] Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologiae. Part I, question 14, especially articles 4, 7, 8, and 13 on divine understanding, causality, and contingent things. English text.

[15] Maimonides, Moses. The Guide for the Perplexed. Part I, chapter 58, on negative attributes. M. Friedlander translation. English and Hebrew text.

[16] Pseudo-Dionysius. The Mystical Theology. Especially chapters I and V. C. E. Rolt translation in On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology. Full translated volume.

[17] The Qur’an. On incomparability, the limits of vision, creative command, and divine nearness, respectively: 42:11, 6:103, 36:82, and 50:16. The Quranic Arabic Corpus presents parallel translations.

[18] Genesis. Chapter 1, especially verses 1-3 and 26-27 on creation and the divine image. Hebrew and English text.

[19] Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Tanya, Part II, Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, chapter 1, on the continuing vitality of divine speech in creation. English text.

[20] Aitareya Upanishad. Especially 3.1.1-3; numbering also appears in alternative divisions. English presentation by A. K. Aruna, with translation of Shankara’s commentary by Swami Gambhirananda. Text and commentary.

[21] Mandukya Upanishad. Especially verse 7, with the Advaita commentary tradition. Swami Nikhilananda translation. Verse and commentary.

[22] Bhagavad Gita. Chapter 13, opening verses on the field and its knower, and 18.66 on surrender. Numbering of the opening of chapter 13 differs across editions. Chapter 13 and 18.66.

[23] Kshemaraja. Pratyabhijnahridaya. Especially sutras 1-5. Jaideva Singh, Pratyabhijnahrdayam The Secret of Self-Realization, third revised edition, Motilal Banarsidass, 1980. Excerpted presentation of the sutras and interpretation.

[24] Majjhima Nikaya 38, Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, especially the discussion of the conditions of consciousness. Bhikkhu Sujato translation. Read the discourse.

[25] Vasubandhu. Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only, in Three Texts on Consciousness Only. Translated from the Chinese by Francis H. Cook. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research; BDK English Tripitaka. Especially verses 1-5 and 17-29. Publisher’s edition and download.

[26] Laozi. Dao De Jing, chapter 1. James Legge translation, published as The Tao Teh King. Read the text.

[27] Guru Granth Sahib. Ang 1, including the Mul Mantar and opening of Japji Sahib, on the One, hukam, and ego. Text and English translation.

[28] Umasvati or Umasvami. Tattvartha Sutra. Especially 2.8 and chapter 5 on conscious and nonconscious realities. Verse 2.8 and chapter 5.

[29] Corpus Hermeticum, treatise I, Poimandres. Especially sections 6-12 and 24-26. Brian P. Copenhaver, translator, Hermetica. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Excerpt from the translation.

[30] Three Initiates. The Kybalion. First published 1908; linked edition 1912. Especially chapters II, V, and VI. This is a modern occult text, distinct from the ancient Corpus Hermeticum. Read the text.

[31] Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Complete three-book edition 1533. Book III, especially chapters 5, 10, 36, and 43. English translation by James Freake; digital edition by Joseph H. Peterson. Book III.

[32] Iamblichus. On the Mysteries. Especially II.11 and V.26 on theurgy and prayer. Thomas Taylor translation, first published 1821; linked reprint 1895. Read the text.

[33] Vital, Hayyim, transmitting the teaching of Isaac Luria. Etz Chaim, opening discourse, gate 1, branch 2. Primary extracts and interpretive comparison. For the later nonliteral interpretation, see also Immanent Transcendence.

[34] Sefer Yetzirah. Chapter 1, especially 1.1-4. Text and translations.

[35] Levi, Eliphas. Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. 1854-1856. A. E. Waite translation, Transcendental Magic Its Doctrine and Ritual, 1896. Especially the discussions of the magical agent, imagination, and will. Read the translated text and historical edition record.

[36] Crowley, Aleister. Liber II The Message of the Master Therion, as printed in The Equinox III, no. 1 (1919). On true will and the distinction from personal liking. Read the text.

[37] Mashour, George A., and Anthony G. Hudetz. “Neural Correlates of Unconsciousness in Large-Scale Brain Networks.” Trends in Neurosciences 41, no. 3 (2018): 150-160. DOI 10.1016/j.tins.2018.01.003. Open-access text.

[38] James, William. Human Immortality Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine. 1898. Especially the distinction between productive and transmissive or permissive brain function. Read the text.

[39] Seth, Anil K., and Karl J. Friston. “Active Interoceptive Inference and the Emotional Brain.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371, no. 1708 (2016): 20160007. DOI 10.1098/rstb.2016.0007. Open-access text.

[40] Jung, C. G. Psychology and Religion. 1938; incorporated in Collected Works, volume 11, Psychology and Religion West and East. Princeton University Press, second edition, 1969. IAAP abstracts and bibliographic guide.

[41] Sharp, Daryl. Jung Lexicon. Inner City Books, 1991. Entries on inflation, the ego, and the Self; these entries cite Jung’s Collected Works, including volume 9ii, paragraph 44, and volume 12, paragraph 563. Online lexicon.

[42] James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902. Especially lecture I, Religion and Neurology, and lectures XVI-XVII, Mysticism. Read the text.

[43] Simons, Daniel J., and Christopher F. Chabris. “Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events.” Perception 28, no. 9 (1999): 1059-1074. DOI 10.1068/p281059. Article and abstract.

[44] Bernstein, Amit, and colleagues. “Decentering and Related Constructs: A Critical Review and Metacognitive Processes Model.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 10, no. 5 (2015): 599-617. DOI 10.1177/1745691615594577. Open-access text.

[45] Weil, Simone. “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.” In Waiting for God, translated by Emma Craufurd. French essay written 1942; English collection published 1951. Essay and edition information and full essay.

[46] Anonymous. The Cloud of Unknowing. Especially chapters 3-7 on contemplative intention and the limits of thought. Evelyn Underhill edition. Chapter on knowing through love and chapter on intention.

[47] Zurek, Wojciech H. “Decoherence, Einselection, and the Quantum Origins of the Classical.” Reviews of Modern Physics 75 (2003): 715-775. DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.75.715. Author’s preprint.

[48] The Gospel according to Matthew. 6:5-13, on prayer to the Father, divine will, and human need. The discussion reads Jesus and his earliest followers within their Jewish setting. King James Version.

[49] Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality. 1929. Part V, chapter II, God and the World. On the distinction between primordial and consequent natures. Excerpt from the text.

[50] Ibn Arabi, Muhyiddin. Fusus al-Hikam, chapter on Adam. English rendering by Bulent Rauf, with its accompanying interpretive context. Extract from the text.

[51] Chittick, William C. “Ibn Arabi.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. First published 2008. Especially the discussions of imagination, divine names, and the relation of immanence to transcendence. Read the entry. See also Chittick’s The Sufi Path of Knowledge, SUNY Press, 1989.

[52] Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. Mishkat al-Anwar, The Niche of Lights. W. H. T. Gairdner translation, Royal Asiatic Society, 1924. Especially Part I on the senses of light and intellectual apprehension. Read Part I.

[53] Maimonides, Moses. Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing 4:15-16. On intention in prayer and standing before the divine presence. Text and translation.