The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness

JF Pagel has authored more than 170 publications. His basic research addressed the electrophysiology of consciousness, the neurochemistry of sleep and dream, and the role of REM sleep in learning and memory. His clinical work includes proofs for non-dreaming and the requirement of sleep for dream and nightmare, the diagnostic code for nightmare disorder, a definition protocol for dream, and demonstrations that REM sleep and dreaming are doubly dissociable. He has developed approaches to treating insomnia, sleep & altitude, narcolepsy, pediatric parasomnias, and waking somnolence, as well as addressing dream and nightmare use in trauma, art, creativity and filmmaking. He is co-editor of one of the major sleep-medicine texts: Primary Care Sleep Disorders (2007/ 2014). His books include: The Limits of Dream – A Scientific Exploration of the Mind /Brain Interface (2007), Dreaming and Nightmares (ed.) (2010), and Dream Science – Exploring the Forms of Consciousness (2014).

1. Intro: The Search for Markers of Consciousness 2. Bioelectricity: Science and Pseudoscience - A History 3. Quantum Oscillations, Ion Gradients and the Creation of Bioelectricity 4. The Conveyance of Bioenergy 5. Electrical Fields as Markers for Life and Death 6. The Electrical Fields Marking Primary Consciousness in Single Cell Organisms 7. The Origin of Synchronous Electrical Fields - Neurochemistry and Genetics 8. The Bioenergetics and Neurofunction of Synchronous Electrical Fields in the CNS 9. Characteristics of Consciousness 10. Human Equivalent Consciousness 11. The EEG of Waking Consciousness 12. The EEG of Sleeping Conscious States 13. The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Temporal Aspects 14. Drugs and Disease Effects on CNS Electrical Fields 15. Meditation Induced Alteration in Synchronous EEG Activity 16. Modern CNS Electrical Therapies 17. Transcending Neuroanatomic Theories of Neuroconsciousness 18. Global Platform Theories of Consciousness 19. Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness 20. Markers of Neuroconsciousness