Indian philosophy and meditation: perspectives on consciousness

India has a rich tradition of meditative practices designed to study the phenomenon of consciousness.

From the distant past to the present, India has evolved a unique psychological culture with grand unifying themes and universal modes of meditative practice.

Providing a detailed analysis of classical and modern Indian views on consciousness along with their related meditative methods, the book critically analyses three distinct trends of Indian thought.

The most striking feature of the work is that side by side theoretical exposition of consciousness, it includes a number of worksheets which explain how to use meditation to achieve relaxation, as well as cognitive 'maps' of the different levels of conscious states and instruction and how one can traverse from one state to another.