The Healthy Mind

Henry M. Vyner, M.D., M.A. is an adjunct professor at the Center for Nepali and Asian Studies at Tribhuvan University—the national university of Nepal. He is a physician and cultural anthropologist, and has spent the last twenty-seven years doing a body of research on the nature of the healthy mind amongst Tibetan lamas living in south and central Asia. While in Nepal, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and held a prior position as a research fellow at Tribhuvan University. Prior to his work in Asia, he served as Director of Research at the Radiation Research Institute in Berkeley, California.

Preface. Semantics & Synonyms. Acknowledgments I. Introduction 1. Ego & War: 9/11 2. The Healthy Mind Assumption 3. Lopon Tegchoke Interview: The Primordial Wisdom of the Egoless Mind II. Science of the Stream of Consciousness 4. Tibet: Entering the Stream of Consciousness 5. A Cultivated Scientific Blind Spot: A Phenomenon is a Phenomenon is a Phenomenon 6. Ode to the Stream of Consciousness III. The Egocentric Mind 7. The Place of the Ego in Nature 8. The Egocentric State of Mind 9. The Vicissitudes of the Ego IV. The Egoless Mind 10. The Goodness of the Natural Mind: The Control of No Control 11. The Egoless State of Mind 12. Meditation: The Cultivation of the Egoless Mind 13. The Future of the Egoless Mind: Science 14. The Future of the Egoless Mind: The Psychology of Peace