Purple Suns

Purple Suns begins with a mystery that visits us every night: dreams. Why does the sleeping mind create strange worlds filled with people, places and events that can feel as real as waking life?

From Freud's discovery of the unconscious and Jung's archetypes to Joseph Campbell's world of myth and Sri Aurobindo's vast explorations of consciousness, the book follows humanity's attempts to understand these inner worlds. Drawing together psychology, neuroscience, mythology and contemplative traditions, it asks a larger question: what if our familiar waking consciousness is only one small region of a much greater landscape of consciousness?

Richly illustrated and written for the curious reader, Purple Suns looks toward a future in which humanity's next great frontier may lie not only in outer space, artificial intelligence or technology, but within consciousness itself.