Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality

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 sing...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Walach, Harald (Editor), Schmidt, Stefan (Editor), Jonas, Wayne B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay, H. Walach
  • Mindfulness in East and West – is it the Same? S. Schmidt
  • Setting our own Terms: How we used Ritual to Become Human, M.J. Rossano
  • Neuroscience and Spirituality – Findings and Consequences, M. Beauregard
  • Consciousness: a Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality, D. Jeanmonod
  • Generalized Entanglement - A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View, H. Walach, H. Römer 
  • Complementarity of Phenomenal and Physiological Observables: A Primer on Generalised Quantum Theory and its Scope for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, H. Römer, H. Walach Hard problems in philosophy of mind and physics: Do they point to spirituality as a solution? N. von Stillfried
  • Brain Structure and Meditation. How Spiritual Practice Shapes the Brain, U. Ott, B.K. Hölzel & D. Vaitl
  • Neurophysiological correlates to psychological trait variables in experienced meditative practitioners, T. Hinterberger, et. al
  • Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Science from the Inside Out, J.W. Schooler, J.N. Schooler   Mindfulness meditation: deconditioning & changing view, H. Barendregt 
  • Endless Consciousness. A concept based on scientific studies on Near-Death Experience, P. van Lommel
  • The hard problem revisited: from cognitive neuroscience to Kabbalah and back again, B.L. Lancaster
  • Towards a Neuroscience of Spirituality, W.B. Jonas
  • Sufism and Rapid Wound Healing, H. Hall        An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model, R.K.C. Forman