Description: Beyond Physicalism : Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality, Hardcover by Kelly, Edward F. (EDT); Crabtree, Adam (EDT); Marshall, Paul (EDT), ISBN 1442232382, ISBN-13 9781442232389, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world’s great cultural traditions. Most contemporary scientists and philosophers believe that reality is at bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than extremely complicated biological machines. On such views our everyday experiences of conscious decision-making, free will, and the self are illusory by-products of the grinding of our neural machinery. It follows that mind and personality are necessarily extinguished at death, and that there exists no deeper transpersonal or spiritual reality of any sort. Beyond Physicalism is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and humanities scholars who dispute these views. In their previous publication,, they argued that physicalism cannot accommodate various well-evidenced empirical phenomena including paranormal or psi phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical experiences. In this new theory-oriented companion volume they go further by attempting to understand how the world must be constituted in order that these “rogue” phenomena can occur. Drawing upon empirical science, metaphysical philosophy, and the mystical traditions, the authors work toward an improved “big picture” of the general character of reality, one which strongly overlaps territory traditionally occupied by the world’s institutional religions, and which attempts to reconcile science and spirituality by finding a middle path between the polarized fundamentalisms, religiousand scientific, that have dominated recent public discourse. Contributions by: Harald Atmanspacher, Loriliai Biernacki, Bernard Carr, Wolfgang Fach, Michael Grosso, Michael Murphy, David E. Presti, Gregory Shaw, Henry P. Stapp, Eric M. Weiss, and Ian Whicher
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Book Title: Beyond Physicalism : Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
Number of Pages: 634 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Mind & Body, Parapsychology / General, Metaphysics, Religion & Science
Item Height: 1.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Philosophy
Item Weight: 40.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Adam Crabtree
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
