Through A Glass Darkly
Anomalous Awareness and Exceptional Ability: Implications for Understanding ConsciousnessBy Joseph Bryer, M.D.Recorded Track
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Unusual experiences and abilities–including clairvoyance, near-death experiences, remote viewing, and others–intrigue many of us. But most scientists dismiss these phenomena, judging them to be inauthentic or impossible. The common assumption that the brain produces or generates the mind leads to these judgments. Through a Glass Darkly shows that, rather than producing consciousness, the brain mediates access to an informational domain far wider than humans natively perceive. The sensory organs and brains of humans and other species have evolved to select and constrain information from this larger domain, conveying to awareness only that information which serves fundamental biological purposes of survival and reproduction. In this view, the brain transmits rather than generates consciousness. Variation in the degree of informational constraint between individuals, or over time in a single individual, explains unusual phenomena.
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GenreScience and Nature, Philosophy
Length0 mins
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Publish dateJun 29, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
76. Models of the Relationship Between Brain and Mind
21. Introduction
87. Anomalous Experience and Ability
32. Sensory and Perceptual Limits
98. Consciousness as an Independent Property
43. Awareness and Self-Awareness
109. Constrained Transmission Model and Anomalous Phenomena
54. Belief at the Margins of Knowledge
1110. Beyond James and Schiller: Implications of the Constrained Transmission Model
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65. Design Constraints and Path Dependence
12Acknowledgements
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