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The Head Trip Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness

Jeff Warren

A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us–and within us. It is the world of consciousness, a protean mental landscape that each of us knows intimately in bits and pieces yet understands in its totality scarcely at all. Tied to the body and the brain, consciousness is non...

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Jeff Warren wrote this book about consciousness, focusing on waking, sleeping, and dreaming, after an accident altered his internal experience. He included a chapter on Buddhism because he felt he needed to gesture towards that tradition when writing about consciousness.

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And that led ultimately to me writing an entire book about consciousness. Even called the head trip.

— Episode: Jeff Warren & the '10% Happier' Road Tri...

Episode: Jeff Warren & the '10% Happier' Road Trip! (Bonus...

Jeff Warren wrote this book about consciousness, focusing on waking, sleeping, and dreaming, after an accident altered his internal experience. He included a chapter on Buddhism because he felt he needed to gesture towards that tradition when writing about consciousness.

"

And that led ultimately to me writing an entire book about consciousness. Even called the head trip.

So which is about waking, sleeping and dreaming about how they work, but it was really about what are the, what are the fundamental ways in which we're aware over 24 hours?

And it had a chapter because I felt like, okay, here I am writing a consciousness. I got at least gesture to these guys, the Buddhists, whoever they are.

Episode: Jeff Warren, After the '10% Happier' Road Trip

This was one of the co-author's previous books, which was a very long, information-heavy book that the author later looked back on and felt was very characteristic of his ADD tendencies.

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I mean it's like a 500 page book with like tons of footnotes I look at it now and like I'm like wonder how my editor has even let that out in the world you know it's very much an ADD thing so it was so so you know.

Episode: Jeff Warren & the '10% Happier' Road Trip! (Bonus...

Jeff Warren wrote this book about consciousness, covering waking, sleeping, and dreaming states. He mentioned writing it because he was deeply interested in how we are aware over 24 hours and what that tells us about ourselves.

"

And that led ultimately to me writing an entire book about consciousness. Even called the head trip.

So which is about waking, sleeping and dreaming about how they work, but it was really about what are the, what are the fundamental ways in which we're aware over 24 hours?

Episode: Jeff Warren & the '10% Happier' Road Trip! (Bonus...

Jeff Warren wrote this book about consciousness, covering waking, sleeping, and dreaming states, stemming from his personal curiosity after a head trauma incident in his youth.

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And that led ultimately to me writing an entire book about consciousness. Even called the head trip.

It was about the progress of insight, which is a particular, it's a Buddhist way of working...

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