After a quarter century of research and debate, world-renowned psychologist and bestselling author Robert Ornstein challenges us with a fresh look at what we thought we knew about the role of the hemispheres of the brain, and the mysterious ...

Ornstein is a brain researcher who refuses to budge. In what is essentially a series of essays, The Mind Field takes a rational, scientific look at the esoteric envelope: psychotherapy, Eastern mysticism, intuition training, parapsychology.

Using specific examples throughout the work, they present a unique approach to what it means to belong to one human family.

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

A provocative new view of "God" centers on our innate quiescent faculty that, if developed, can help to dissolve religious, tribal and cultural biases and usher in a higher level of conscious connection - a new "spiritual literacy."

"A detailed, original and persuasive reading of cultural and intellectual history."—Los Angeles Times. "A genuine tour de force."—San Francisco Chronicle.