Foreword, Janet Gyatso Foreword, Irving Kirsch Section I - Introduction 1. Contemplative experience in context: Hypnosis, meditation, and the transformation of consciousness, Michael Lifshitz Section II - Philosophical, historical, and cultural perspectives 2. Thinking about trance over a century: The making of a set of impasses, Anne Harrington 3. Visualization as mental cultivation: Expanding our understanding of meditation, Thupten Jinpa 4. Tranforming experience through Chod: Insights from hypnosis research, Quinton Deeley 5. Varieties of tulpa experiences: The hypnotic nature of human sociality, personhood, and interphenomenality, Samuel Veissiere Section III - Similarities and differences 6. Hypnosis and meditation: A neurophenomenological comparison, Jelena Markovic and Evan Thompson 7. Hypnosis as self-deception; Meditation as self-insight, Zoltan Dienes, Peter Lush, Rebecca Semmens-Wheeler, Jim Parkinson, Ryan Scott, and Peter Naish 8.
Hypnosis and mindfulness: Experiential and neurophysiological relationships, Lynn C. Waelde, Jason M. Thompson, and David Spiegel 9. Meditation: Some kind of (self)-hypnosis? A deeper look, Charles Tart 10. Towards a science of internal experience: Conceptual and methodological issues in hypnosis and meditation research, Vince Polito and Michael H. Connors Section IV - Cognitive mechanisms 11. Increasing cognitive-emotional flexibility with meditation and hypnosis: The cognitive neuroscience of de-automatization, Kieran Fox, Yoona Kang, Michael Lifshitz, and Kalina Christoff 12. Mind-wandering and meta-awareness in hypnosis and meditation: Relating executive function across states of consciousness, Benjamin Mooneyham and Jonathan W.
Schooler 13. Reformulating the mindfulness construct: The cognitive processes at work in mindfulness, hypnosis and mystical states, John Vervaeke and Leonardo Ferraro 14. Absorption in hypnotic trance and meditation, Ulrich Ott Section V - Neural underpinnings 15. Towards comprehensive neurophenomenological research in hypnosis and meditation, Etzel Cardena 16. Influencing conflict in the human brain by changing brain states, Yi-Yuan Tang and Michael I. Posner 17. A unified theory of hypnosis and meditation states: The interoceptive predictive coding approach, Graham Jamieson 18. Hypnosis, hypnotic suggestibility and meditation: An integrative review of the associated brain regions and networks, William J.
McGeown Section VI - Clinical applications 19. Suggesting mindfulness: Reflections on the uneasy relationship between mindfulness and hypnosis, Michael Yapko 20. Self-transformation through hypnosis and mindfulness meditation: What exactly is being transformed?, Norman Farb 21. Meditative and hypnotic analgesia: Different directions, same road?, Fadel Zeidan and Joshua Grant 22. Hypnosis and mindfulness meditation: A psychoanalytic perspective, Tony Toneatto and Erin Courtice 23. When worlds combine: Synthesizing hypnosis, mindfulness, and acceptance-based approaches to psychotherapy and smoking cessation, Steven J. Lynn, Joseph P. Green, Victor Elinoff, Jessica Baltman, and Reed Maxwell Section VII - Conclusion 24.
Hypnosis and meditation as vehicles to elucidate human consciousness, Amir Raz Afterword, Dan Brown.