Scientists have learned more about the brain in the last decade than in all of previous history, and the implications of the latest research are clear: The human brain is far more powerful, and has the potential for immensely greater growth and transformation, than was ever before imagined. These discoveries may constitute the most significant development in learning since the invention of writing. Michael Hutchison captures all the drama, excitement, and adventure as we finally begin to comprehend the most mysterious and complex structure in the universe, the source of human culture, a still untapped reservoir of power and skills. He looks at the recently developed machines and devices that may soon allow us to increase brain size and intelligence; regenerate brain cells; trigger specific brain states such as euphoria, long- and short-term memory, sexual excitement, and creativity; and control the brain's electrical activity in order to alter such "involuntary" mechanisms as blood pressure, heart rate, and the secretion of hormones. Megabrain is a lucid and lively account of where the pioneers in brain research are headed -- and where they are taking us.

This is the amazing follow up book after the original classic "Mega Brain" revolutionized the mind tech in USA and around the world. The book is still the single best resource for anyone interested in discovering how to benefit from the original research. It includes many topics from sports to intelligence, from sex to healing, from biofeedback to re-scripting. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ONE: The Brain Revolution In Search of Tools for Waking Up TWO: Peak Performance Brain Waves THREE: Whole-Brain Power FOUR: Working Out In the Brain Gym: The New Science of Brain Growth and Mind Fitness FIVE: Taking Charge: Biofeedback and Brain Power SIX: Sound: The Heartbeat of Life SEVEN: Light Power EIGHT: The Technicolor Symphony: Orchestrating Your Brain with Light and Sound NINE: Electric Brain Power: Recharging the Batteries TEN: Motion and the Brain ELEVEN: Supercharging Your Senses: Acoustic Field Generators TWELVE: Sounds of Silence, Visions from the Void: Reduced Stimulation THIRTEEN: Changing Channels: Brain Tuning and State Change FOURTEEN: Deep Relaxation on Command FIFTEEN: Beyond Relaxation: Self-Hypnosis and Suggestion SIXTEEN: Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Visualization SEVENTEEN: Deep Self: Exploration and Transformation EIGHTEEN: REscriptING NINETEEN: Your Tools for Superintelligence TWENTY: Becoming the Ultimate Athlete TWENTY-ONE: The Mental Edge: Peak Performance and the Inner Game TWENTY-TWO: Brain-Powered Sex TWENTY-THREE: Creativity TWENTY-FOUR: Awakening and Transcendence: Techno-Shamanism and the Democratization of Bliss TWENTY-FIVE: Riding the Big Wave: Ultradian Rhythms and Mind Machines TWENTY-SIX: Full-Speed Recovery: Ending Addiction and Substance Abuse TWENTY-SEVEN: Your High-Tech Weight-Loss System TWENTY-EIGHT: Free At Last: Ending Anxiety, Depression and Phobias TWENTY-NINE: Ending the Reign of Pain THIRTY: From Learning Disabilities to Learning Superabilities THIRTY-ONE: Supercharging Your Immune System THIRTY-TWO: Brain Power Nutrients THIRTY-THREE: the smart drug revolution cognition-enhancement drugs and peak performance pills THIRTY-FOUR: Using Smart Drugs with Mind Machines bibliography RESOURCES

In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders invokes the wisdom of American literary heroes Twain, Vonnegut and Barthelme and inspires us to re-examine our assumptions about the world we live in, as we struggle to discover what is really there.

The thinking person's guide to finding and using mind machines--the cutting-edge, inexpensive new technology for tapping into and improving brain power. Human beings never use 90% of their brain power, but a growing mental fitness movement is changing that with technological mind-expansion. Photos and line drawings.

How does memory work? Are we addicted to television? What is Alzheimer's Disease? Can machines read our minds? The human brain, with all its inherent complexity, has taken on near mythical status. Its 100 billion nerve cells, forged by nature and refined over millions of years, allow humans the capacity to survive, create culture, love. Once an impenetrable grey mass, modern science is getting to grips with our brains at an unprecedented rate. We are moving from a time of anatomy, in which science did well to characterise the various regions of the brain, to a time in which we can observe thought processes in real time. We have entered a neural renaissance. The Rough Guide to the Brain is for anyone who's ever wanted to know more about how their brain and mind works - and what goes wrong when it doesn't. From how we evolved such an impressive organ to how it achieves the feat that is you. Including numerous insights from leaders in their fields, there's no better way to stimulate your grey matter.

"Building a second brain is getting things done for the digital age. It's a ... productivity method for consuming, synthesizing, and remembering the vast amount of information we take in, allowing us to become more effective and creative and harness the unprecedented amount of technology we have at our disposal"--

Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as diverse as architecture, engineering, education, genetics, ecology, economics, politics, industrial time-management, medicine, immigration, race, and sex. He argues that metaphor themes are created not only through the universal body but also through cultural experience, so that an apparently universal metaphor such as event-structure as realized in English grammar is, in fact, culturally relative, compared with e.g. the construal of 'cause and effect' in the Algonquin language Blackfoot. Moreover, event-structure as a model is both scientifically reactionary and, as the basis for technological mega-projects, has proved environmentally harmful. Furthermore, the ideologies of early capitalism created or exploited a selection of metaphor themes historically traceable through Hobbes, Hume, Smith, Malthus and Darwin. These metaphorical concepts support neo-Darwinian and neo-conservative ideologies apparent at the beginning of the 21st century, ideologies underpinning our social and environmental crises. The conclusion therefore recommends skepticism of metaphor's reductionist tendencies.