A Study in Consciousness

About this book

A thought appears, disappears and leaves something behind. Memory gathers experience; will gives it direction. Annie Besant asks how consciousness develops from the simplest response to a world into the complex inward life of a human being.

Using the language of Theosophy, Besant connects spirit and matter with sensation, emotion, thought and volition. Diagrams support her account of awareness as a power that develops and changes. Her metaphysical model offers a detailed view of early Theosophical ideas about the mind, with little connection to contemporary neuroscience.