Mind Beyond Brain : : Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal / / David Presti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Presti, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Greyson, Bruce,; Kelly, Edward F.,; Kelly, Emily Williams,; Presti, David E.,; Rinpoche, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal,; Tucker, Jim B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE: DEEPENING THE DIALOGUE -- I. Scientific Revolution and the Mind-Matter Relation -- 2. Near-Death Experiences -- 3. Reports of Past-Life Memories -- 4. Mediums, Apparitions, and Deathbed Experiences -- 5. Paranormal Phenomena, the Siddhis, and an Emerging Path Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality -- 6. An Expanded Conception of Mind -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX