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Consciousness Explained Better is a unique contribution. This compact volume represents thousands of years of humanity's struggle to understand consciousness from a wide variety of perspectives. It is an up-to-date digest of the search in bite-sized chapters. Allan Combs has managed to encapsulate and synthesize vast bodies of thought and…

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The late Leslie Allan Combs was a deep thinker about consciousness, a word with a world of definitions.

I would suggest that this small book follows books about the sensoria of animals, plants, and the cosmos into the human umwelt. Consciousness has its own multiple taxonomies, states, structures, functions, hierarchies, and facets. From an individual’s point of view, consciousness is the umwelt because our senses are our only windows onto the so-called exterior world.

Because the subject sprawls like an indolent and unwelcome visitor on the couch, it needs explanation. There is no better primer of the subject than…

I have only recently become acquainted with Allan Combs, and consider myself very fortunate to be in correspondence with him regarding my book. As a serious student of synchronicity, I had read his book by that title (written with Mark Holland) and knew him to be a delightful writer and deep thinker on topics dear to my heart. Consciousness Explained Better, which demonstrates Allan’s depth and scope as a teacher of consciousness studies, contributed the perfect excerpt needed to support a concept at the very core of my book.

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