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Author: David E. Presti Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231548397 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 268
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Among the most profound questions we confront are the nature of what and who we are as conscious beings, and how the human mind relates to the rest of what we consider reality. For millennia, philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers have attempted answers, perhaps none more meaningful today than those offered by neuroscience and by Buddhism. The encounter between these two worldviews has spurred ongoing conversations about what science and Buddhism can teach each other about mind and reality. In Mind Beyond Brain, the neuroscientist David E. Presti, with the assistance of other distinguished researchers, explores how evidence for anomalous phenomena—such as near-death experiences, apparent memories of past lives, apparitions, experiences associated with death, and other so-called psi or paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition—can influence the Buddhism-science conversation. Presti describes the extensive but frequently unacknowledged history of scientific investigation into these phenomena, demonstrating its relevance to questions about consciousness and reality. The new perspectives opened up, if we are willing to take evidence of such often off-limits topics seriously, offer significant challenges to dominant explanatory paradigms and raise the prospect that we may be poised for truly revolutionary developments in the scientific investigation of mind. Mind Beyond Brain represents the next level in the science and Buddhism dialogue.
Author: Charles T. Tart Publisher: New Harbinger Publications ISBN: 1572246456 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 418
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Ideal for scientifically minded individuals curious about life's spiritual side as well as spiritually inclined people seeking to back up their beliefs, this book offers evidence for the existence of telepathy, precognition, and psychic healing.
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226453839 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
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"Account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science. Delving deeply into the work of major figures in the field - from Jack Kirby's cosmic superhero sagas and Philip K. Dick's futuristic head-trips to Alan Moore's sex magic and Whitley Strieber's communion with visitors - Kripal shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they experienced in their lives. Expanded consciousness found its language in the metaphors of sci-fi - incredible powers, unprecedented mutations, time-loops and vast intergalactic intelligences - and the deeper influences of mythology and religion that these in turn drew from ; the wildly creative work that followed caught the imaginations of millions. Moving deftly from Cold War science and Fredric Wertham's anticomics crusade to gnostic revelation and alien abduction, Kripal spins out a hidden history of American culture, rich with mythical themes and shot through with an awareness that there are other realities far beyond our everyday understanding."--Jacket.
Author: Homayun Sidky Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1785271636 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 520
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"Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal, and Pseudoscience" provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought associated with the current rise of irrationalism, antiintellectualism, and emboldened religious fundamentalism and violence. Drawing upon H. Sidky’s scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over three decades, the book answers several important questions: Why do humans have a proclivity for the supernatural and paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality and which bestow an illusionary solace, promote bloodshed, endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been held as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?
Author: Damien Broderick Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 374
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As 21st-century science explores the world of quantum mechanics--what has seemed impossible becomes just another part of our strange universe
Author: David Jacobs Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781512395228 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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Paranormal Investigators, ghost enthusiasts, or people simply wanting to learn, will glean valuable insights into what could quite possibly be the next step in explaining paranormal phenomena. Written as a conversation between David and Sarah, presenting their very different views, this book is a great jumping off point that will lead you to think, look for answers and start to view the paranormal world in a new and interesting way.
Author: Martin Bridgstock Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139482548 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 215
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Whether ghosts, astrology or ESP, up to 80 per cent of the population believes in one or more aspects of the paranormal. Such beliefs are entertaining, and it is tempting to think of them as harmless. However, there is mounting evidence that paranormal beliefs can be dangerous - cases of children dying because parents rejected orthodox medicine in favour of alternative remedies, and 'psychics' who trade on the grief of the bereaved for personal profit and gain. Expenditure on the paranormal runs into billions of dollars each year. In Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal Martin Bridgstock provides an integrated understanding of what an evidence-based approach to the paranormal - a skeptical approach - involves, and why it is necessary. Bridgstock does not set out to show that all paranormal claims are necessarily false, but he does suggest that we all need the analytical ability and critical thinking skills to seek and assess the evidence for paranormal claims.
Author: Marie D. Jones Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser ISBN: 1601639503 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 215
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Are poltergeists energy fluctuations in the Zero Point Field? Could even the simple experience of déjà vu be explained by the quantum theory of parallel universes? Do thoughts have the energy to manifest and move physical objects? PSIence introduces readers to the latest discoveries in quantum physics and New Science that may explain the existence of paranormal phenomena—UFOs, ghosts, poltergeists, mysterious apparitions, time anomalies, the Bermuda Triangle, energy vortices—and psychic abilities such as ESP, telekinesis, remote viewing, and recalling past lives. You’ll explore the cutting-edge ideas that are fascinating both scientists and paranormal investigators, including: The latest theories of multiple universes and eleven dimensions. The Zero Point Field—is it the potential source of all creative energy? The potential of every human being to experience the paranormal. Many of the world’s leading scientists, researchers, philosophers and spiritual leaders—from noted physicists like Michio Kaku to the revered Dalai Lama—are beginning to accept the possibility of alternate realities and dimensions that warp time and space. PSIence takes the reader on a journey to where the “normal” and the paranormal intersect, where the known and unknown converge, where science greets the supernatural.
Author: Marie D. Jones
Author: Marie D. Jones
Author: John Warren White
Author: David E. Presti
Author: Charles T. Tart
Author: Jeffrey J. Kripal
Author: Homayun Sidky
Author: Damien Broderick
Author: David Jacobs
Author: Martin Bridgstock
Author: Marie D. Jones