Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
Editors: Walach, Harald, Schmidt, Stefan, Jonas, Wayne B. (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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.
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- About this book
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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.
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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)
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay
Pages 1-21
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Mindfulness in East and West – Is It the Same?
Pages 23-38
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Setting Our Own Terms: How We Used Ritual to Become Human
Pages 39-55
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Neuroscience and Spirituality – Findings and Consequences
Pages 57-73
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Consciousness: A Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality
Pages 75-79
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
- Editors
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- Harald Walach
- Stefan Schmidt
- Wayne B. Jonas
- Series Title
- Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-2079-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-2079-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-2078-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-3724-2
- Series ISSN
- 2211-8918
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 300
- Topics
