We started work on Godhead: The Brain's Big Bang seven years ago. Now it's finished, printed and available for others to read. The book is about the explosive origin of creativity, mysticism and mental illness and takes some of the original ideas set out in our earlier work, Human Givens, and uses them as stepping stones to explain some of the great scientific mysteries, particularly in regard to the importance of consciousness, pattern-matching and how the Universe maintains itself.
The book contains information on the following: The law of all living things; The brain’s big bang; The appearance of creativity mysticism and mental illness; Caetextia; The animal within; The imprinted brain; The brain’s default system; Spirituality and autism; The observing self; Caetextia as an organising idea; Daydreaming: Triumph or disaster? Your self-concept; Our caetextic culture; Caetextia, creativity and genius; Casualties of evolution; Organisational Cetextia; Why all learning is post-hypnotic; How we internalise knowledge; Hypnosis: psychotherapy’s most powerful tool; Conditioning; Learning versus indoctrination; Why consciousness matters; Consciousness and psychotherapy; Relatons; Self-consciousness; How life accumulates knowledge; Relationships as pattern-matches; The memory mystery; How time is created; Unseen probabilities; The oscillating nature of reality; Ancient texts; Necessity and spirituality; What happens to consciousness after death? The value of metaphor; The mystical experience; God and Godhead;Burnt Norton;All and everything; What the 'nothing' is that physicists have been looking for and what all matter is supposed to have come from; How the information arose in the Universe that made inanimate and animate matter appear; Evolution; Prehistory: The heart in the cave; The Shaft of the Dead Man; Harnessing superstition; How myths shape meaning; Why every myth must die; Ice Age Illuminati; Stone circles; From circles to pyramids; Occam’s razor and extraterrestrials; The great secret; The higher impulse; The universality of ancient teachings; Gnostic mystery schools; Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Medieval Renaissance; Love; The mystical process in the modern world; Finding your way; Gaining spare capacity; The obstacle race; Mastering appetites; How to recognize and avoid cults; The expectation factor; Mystics and madness; The ladder; Destiny.
