Overview
- First book ever on the intersection of neuroscience, spirituality and consciousness studies.
- Provides both overviews of new academic fields and theoretical advances on the integration of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness studies.
- Major authors in this area join together to elucidate this field from theoretical and empirical perspectives.
- Reflects the coming of age of a new and truly interdisciplinary field of research.
Part of the book series: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality (SNCS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss new areas of research, such as near death studies and neuroscience research into spiritual experiences, and report on significant new theoretical advances.
From Harald Walach’s introductory essay, “Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions,” to the concluding chapter by Robert K. C. Foreman entitled “An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model,” this book represents a milestone in the progress towards an integrated understanding of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness.
It is the first in a series of books that are dedicated to this topic.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The individual contributors to this book come from a variety of disciplines and include a set of international scholars. … this book has relevance for psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, theologians, and religious scholars and perhaps even theoretical physicists. … All and all, this book is an interesting read … .” (S. Kenneth Thurman, Mindfulness, Vol. 4, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
Editors: Harald Walach, Stefan Schmidt, Wayne B. Jonas
Series Title: Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2079-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2078-7Published: 31 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3724-2Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2079-4Published: 31 August 2011
Series ISSN: 2211-8918
Series E-ISSN: 2211-8926
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Topics: Neuropsychology, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Mind, Neurobiology