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• Transparent Minds in Science Fiction: An Introduction to Accounts of Alien, AI and Post-Human Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023), by Paul Matthews
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)
• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (New Haven and London: Routledge, c1988), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Organic Creativity and the Physics Within (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), by Mea M. M. Lowcre, ed. by Johan Hoorn (Javascript-dependent PDF at benjamins.com)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Why We Are Free: Consciousness, Free Will, and Creativity in a Unified Scientific Worldview (2021), by David Layzer, ed. by Anthony Aguirre and Bob Doyle (PDF with commentary at informationphilosopher.com)
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)
• The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (based on the 1901 edition), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (Philadelphia: Innes and Sons, 1905), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • PDF at djm.cc
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Science of Consciousness, by Dr. Jagadishomritunjay (frame-dependent HTML at archive.org)
• States of Consciousness, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology (second edition, 1915), by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
• The Phenomenology of Mind (2 volumes; London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)
• Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (second American edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Fayette Bragdon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Foundation for a New Consciousness: An Essay on Art, Science and Religion, by John Caris (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Epic of Consciousness, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light, by Peter Russell (HTML with commentary at peterrussell.com)

• Emotion, Intellect and Spirituality, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• Religion, Altered States Of Consciousness, and Social Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973), by Erika Bourguignon (PDF at Ohio State)

• Religion, Altered States Of Consciousness, and Social Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973), by Erika Bourguignon (PDF at Ohio State)

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation (London, J. Churchill; Edinburgh, A. and C. Black, 1850), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond Hypnosis (Whittier, CA: Independent Pub. Co., c1952), by Hugh Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical Lessons in Hypnotism and Magnetism: Giving the Only Simple and Practical Course in Hypnotism and Vital Magnetism Which Starts the Student or Practitioner Out Upon a Plain, Common Sense Basis, Prepared Especially for Self-Instruction (Chicago: De Laurence Co., c1937), by L. W. De Laurence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Directe Psychologische Experimentalmethode in Hypnotischen Bewusstseinzuständen: Erweiterte Darstellung eines auf dem III. Internationalen Psychologencongress zu München Gehaltenen Vortrags (in German; Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1897), by Oskar Vogt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science: A Manual of Practical Psychotherapy, Designed Especially for the General Practitioner of Medicine and Surgery (third edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1912), by Henry S. Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics, Applied Hypnotism, Psychic Science: A Manual of Practical Psychotherapy, Designed Especially for the General Practitioner of Medicine, Surgery, and Dentistry (fourth edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1917), by Henry S. Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mesmerismus: oder, System der Wechselwirkungen, Theorie und Anwendung des thierischen Magnetismus als die allgemeine Heilkunde zur Erhaltung des Menschen (in German; Berlin: in der Nikolaischen Buchhandlung, 1814), by Franz Anton Mesmer, ed. by Karl Christian Wolfart
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Practical Lessons in Hypnotism: Containing Complete Instructions in the Development Practice of Hypnotic Power, Including Much Valuable Information in Regard to Menal Healing, Mind Reading, and Other Kindred Subjects (Chicago: Thompson and Thomas, c1901), by Wm. Wesley Cook (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confessions of a Tobacco Addict (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962), by Ben Petmecky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis (ca. 1958), by Max Freedom Long (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Hypnotism and Spiritism: A Critical and Medical Study (translated from the second revised edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green, 1907), by Giuseppe Lapponi, trans. by Agnes Mary Rowland Gibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic, Witchcraft, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism and Electro-Biology: Being a Digest of the Latest Views of the Author on These Subjects (third edition; London: J. Churchill; Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1852), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mysteries of Hypnosis (Les Mystéres de l'Hypnose) (London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by G. de Dubor, trans. by G. M. Hort
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Observations on Trance: or, Human Hybernation (London, J. Churchill; Edinburgh, A. and C. Black, 1850), by James Braid (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Art et l'Hypnose: Interprétation Plastique d'Oeuvres Littéraires et Musicales (second edition, in French; Geneva: Édition Atar; Paris: F. Alcan, n.d.), by Emile Magnin, contrib. by Théodore Flournoy, illust. by Frederic Boissonas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Psychography: A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena, by William Stainton Moses (PDF at meilach.com)
• The Gospel of Philip the Deacon (complete edition, 1932 (Smith died in 1949)), by Frederick Bligh Bond and Hester Travers Smith (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Anke K. Finger and Manuela Wagner
  • multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)

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