Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr. Robert Evan Ornstein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is a psychologist, researcher and writer. He has taught at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, based at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, and been professor at Stanford University and chairman of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK). Robert Evan Ornstein was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and grew up in the city. He was twice high school math champion in a city-wide contest, and "wavered between physics and poetry before compromising on psychology" at the City University of New York''s Queen''s College. In 1964 he was awarded a bachelor''s degree in psychology at Queen''s College, and went on to gain a Ph.D at Stanford University, California in 1968. His doctoral thesis was On the Experience of Time. Ornstein has been involvedin reconciling the scientific understanding of mind and consciousness with other scientific and cultural traditions. His work has been featured in a 1974 Time magazine article entitled Hemispheric Thinker.