Robert Ornstein
Goodreads Author
Born
in New York, The United States
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July 2021
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https://www.goodreads.com/robert_ornstein
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The Psychology of Consciousness
27 editions
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1972
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Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
12 editions
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1991
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New World, New Mind: Changing the Way We Think to Save Our Future
15 editions
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1988
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The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres
9 editions
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1997
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The Amazing Brain
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16 editions
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1984
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Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior
10 editions
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1986
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
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Healthy Pleasures
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10 editions
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1989
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The Healing Brain
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25 editions
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1987
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The Roots of the Self: Unraveling the Mystery of Who We Are
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5 editions
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1993
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Robert’s Recent Updates
Robert Ornstein
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“But most of us, for most of our lives, do not try to determine the causes of things. Rather, most of the time we try to get by; to eat, sleep, and of course, to reproduce. In other words, we are mainly concerned with surviving, getting along in a complex and changing world, in short, with adapting rather than with interference.”
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“Many of us have experienced the difficulty in successfully 'giving up' doing something; too often, trying to give it up seems only to keep one focused on the forbidden object or enterprise — enhancing the desire rather than taming it…”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
“… deactivating this area (right parietal lobe) of the brain that controls self, time and space enhances virtues such as forgiveness, and allows us to take a “higher” view of life.”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
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“What is needed, now, is a new view, to reassess and reform the concept of God. It is the experience of going beyond the norm to achieve insight as to how life events are connected on a “higher” level.
We now have an idea of how the process happens in the brain and, importantly, how to develop this innate potential in today’s world. This knowledge could be the first small step toward finding the common ground for us to stand on to work toward a new spiritual literacy.”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
We now have an idea of how the process happens in the brain and, importantly, how to develop this innate potential in today’s world. This knowledge could be the first small step toward finding the common ground for us to stand on to work toward a new spiritual literacy.”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
“…the capstone to Robert Ornstein’s brilliant, ground-breaking half century of research into the dimensions, capacities, and purposes of human consciousness. —Tony Hiss”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
“This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood. —Charles Swencionis”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
“There will be no further evolution without conscious evolution. - Robert Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
“This book is the culmination of, the capstone to Robert Ornstein’s brilliant, ground-breaking half century of research into the dimensions, capacities, and purposes of human consciousness. Deeply thoughtful and wide-ranging in scope, his final book goes well beyond the “left-brain, right-brain” work for which he originally became famous, this time bringing the often-confusing and divisive subject of spirituality into a clear and useful 21st-century focus, presenting it as a matter of perception, not belief. Using rigorous, rational, scientific analysis – always his greatest strength – Ornstein shows that the spiritual impulse is innate, a human ability that from the Ice Age forward has been essential to problem solving. As a final part of his legacy, he lays out how this capacity to reach beyond the everyday can, cleared of cobwebs and seen afresh, play a role and be part of preparing humanity to confront today’s staggering global problems. A rewarding and fascinating book. — Tony Hiss, author of Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”
― God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”

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