Summary: Guest: Richard Grossinger, author, publisher A native of New York City, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan, receiving a BA in English and a Ph. D. in anthropology. He wrote his doctoral thesis on his fieldwork with fishermen in Eastern Maine, after which he taught for two years and the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham and five years at Goddard College in Vermont. With his wife, Lindy Hough, he is the co-founder and publisher of North Atlantic Books as well as its forerunner, the journal Io. His works include early books of experimental prose; a series of titles on holistic medicine, cosmology, and embryology; two memoirs; and recent books reexploring these themes, related topics, and aspects of contemporary politics and pop culture. In his three volume work Dark Pool of Light, Richard Grossinger weaves neuroscience and the phenomenology of being and reality together with psychospiritual views of "that single thing which is most difficult to understand or vindicate: our own existence." Dark Pool of Light Volume One addresses the mystery of how subjective consciousness gets into a material universe to witness itself objectively in egoic systems. In particular, it gauges the various degrees and qualities of the gap between mindedness as an experiential state and the brain as a physical object, calling out the schizophrenia of scientists who assert the consciousness is a mirage while living as if they themselves are real. Volumes Two and Three explore the remote ranges and exquisite meanings of consciousness, whether it is real or not. www.richardgrossinger.com
