This was kind of a hybrid between a beginner's neuroscience text and a new age shamanic Shirley McClain daydream. The idea that the mind may exist outside, and maybe even in spite of, the brain certainly is plausible enough: but, Dr. Hunt doesn't present her case very well, relying too much on electrographs coupled with unreasonable assumptions as compelling evidence. The writing was erratic and at times seemed like it was being presented by more than one author. Not really worth the effort in my humble opinion.

I read this book 10 years ago. I wanted to give it zero stars but one star is the lowest rating.

There is no science at all in this book. It is pure nonsense. Hunt should be lumped into the same category as people like Fred Singer (who denies that CO2 causes global warming and previous to that denied that chlorofluorocarbons could affect ozone levels). There are lots of ways to be nutty but ultimately it all comes down to one thing: nuttiness.

This book has a lot of ideas taken from people like Jung to make it seem
believeable.
It is so good that a person like me with only a BSEE and Compute Sciences
degree would swallow it as, except for the many technical errors and the fact that the end intent is selling a watch that is purported to cure
illness is being sold at a riduculous price, with the come on that the profits are going to a non profit association.
Come now. This kind of snake oil product was dropped by Sears and Roebuck many years ago because of ethical reasons.
Come now, Non profit, Maybe the IRS will go looking into this scam.

This is a thoroughly researched, beautifully written BIBLE on the current concept of energy, collective consciousness, etc. Interesting reasoning on our connectedness and the power therein if used. This is a must read,must ponder and must adjust our lives kind of text, and "text" it surely is. Read it, its a gift to yourself.

This in response to a negative previous review of this book. Valerie Hunt may not be the most scientific of writers but do not dismiss her work because of that. The "mathematical chaos formula" picture you are criticizing as "Lissajous" patterns are not Lissajous. This image was derived using a mathematical algorithm designed specificaly to visualize/search for chaotic patterns in measured data. When this algorithm is applied to random noise, no pattern is produced. When a data set is chaotic, patterns start to appear. This algorithm is well described in many chaos theory books and it is used in physics and engineering. Valerie Hunt is not a mathematician but she does consult mathematicians who know what tools to use to analyze such data. But I do agree the book does not show enough details of her experimental results. I happen to know more of the details thru other sources and I happen to use the same mathematical tools in my work.