A Welcome Introduction!

Welcome! This is my companion blog to the Neuroscience of Consciousness graduate seminar taught by Anne Harrington from Harvard’s History of Science department. Here, I grapple with the questions of consciousness presented in class and the survey of consciousness communicators, critics, researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers over the last century. I will strive to communicate my conundrums and the consciousness queries that arise in the flow of my day-to-day activity. What are the positions presented in the consciousness discourse, how do I make sense of them, and how are they reflected in life? As a mental health counselor and an MDiv student at Harvard seeking to incorporate spiritual care modalities into secular psychotherapy interventions, how might this material and companion blog facilitate the integration of consciousness concepts into practice? What can we draw from the intersection of Science, Spirituality, and Psychology? What will you, dear reader, draw from this mosaic exercise?