Aviva Berkovich Ohana is Professor of Neuroscience and head of the Integrative Psychotherapy Program in the School of Therapy, Counseling and Human Development at the Education Faculty, University of Haifa, Israel.

Or Raphael is a physicist and renewable energy engineer, with over 15 years of experience in meditative practices. He is currently working as an environmental entrepreneur and science writer.

Eviatar Shulman is Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and member of the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

David Rudrauf is a professor of cognitive science at the University Paris-Saclay, France.

Idan Segev is a professor of computational neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jeruslaem, Israel, and a chief editor of the open-access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience since its inauguration in 2007.

Preface
1 Unapologetic Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Consciousness
Yochai Ataria
2 Meditation and Self-Consciousness: Neuroscience, Neurophenomenology, and Possible Implications
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
3 Horizons of Examining Experience
Ema Demšar and Urban Kordeš
4 Disentangling Consciousness from the Self: A Buddhist Contribution to the Mind Sciences
Georges Dreyfus
5 Consciousness from the Inside
Stephen Fulder
6 Indirect Phenomenology: Prereflective Self-Awareness and Intersubjective Interaction
Shaun Gallagher
7 The Politics of Consciousness
Yuval Noah Harari
8 What Is Conscious Vision Good For? Debunking the Devil from the Details
Dominique Lamy
Nitzan Micher
9 Toward the Mathematics of Consciousness
Oded Maimon
Moshe Klein
10 Waves and Flames in the Creative and Conscious Human Brain
Rafael Malach
11 Do Quantum Theory and Human Consciousness Share Common Ground?
Zohar Maliniak
12 The Benevolent Potential of Spiritual Experiences That Encompass a Variety of States of Consciousness
Ofra Mayseless
13 Meditation: From Self-Regulation to Ego-Dissolution
Ulrich Ott
14 Meditative In-Action: An Endogenous Epistemic Venture
Giuseppe Pagnoni and Fausto Taiten Guareschi
15 My Peregrinations through Varela’s Neurophenomenological Horizon Towards the Mathematics of Subjective Experience
David Rudrauf
16 Has Quantum Mechanics Something to Say About Consciousness?
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
17 The Neurophenomenology of Voluntary Action: The Libet Experiment with an Experienced Mediator
Stefan Schmidt
18 Consciousness is Definition-Dependent
Or Raphael
19 Biophysics of Consciousness or Can My Brain Explain My Pain?
Idan Segev
20 Consciousness and the First-Person
Yaron Senderowicz
21 Performing Space
Anat Shamgar and Tom Soloveitzik
22 The Indian Hard Problem of Consciousness
Eviatar Shulman
23 Consciousness and Cognition: A Personal Journey from Function to Phenomenology
Narayanan Srinivasan
24 Open-Ended Enquiry of Psychedelic Experiences via First-Person Methodologies and Neurophenomenology
Christopher Timmermann
25 Four Components of Subjectivity and The Projective Consciousness Model
Kenneth Williford
Contributors
Index