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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, Irreducible Mind, 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, religious and 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
Contents
Introduction: Science and Spirituality at a Crossroads, Edward F. Kelly
Part I. The Essential Background: "Rogue" Phenomena in Search of a Theory
1. Empirical Challenges to Theory Construction, Edward F. Kelly
2. Mystical Experiences as Windows on Reality, Paul Marshall
Part II. Old and New Worldviews that Accommodate the Targeted Phenomena
3. The "Transmission" Model of Mind and Body: A Brief History, Michael Grosso
4. A Psychobiological Perspective on "Transmission" Models, Edward F. Kelly and David E. Presti
5. A Quantum Mechanical Theory of the Mind/Brain Connection, Henry P. Stapp
6. Mind-Matter Correlations in Dual-Aspect Monism According to Pauli and Jung, Harald Atmanspacher and Wolfgang Fach
7. Hyperspatial Models of Matter and Mind, Bernard Carr
8. Platonic Siddhas: Supernatural Philosophers of Neoplatonism, Gregory Shaw
9. Patanjali's Yoga Sūtras and the Siddhis, Edward F. Kelly and Ian Whicher
10. Conscious Body: Mind and Body in Abhinavagupta's Tantra, Loriliai Biernacki
11. Why We Are Conscious of So Little: A Neo-Leibnizian Approach, Paul Marshall
12. Continuity of Mind: A Peircean Vision, Adam Crabtree
13. Mind Beyond Body: Transphysical Process Metaphysics, Eric M. Weiss
Part III. Putting the Pieces Together
14. Toward a Worldview Grounded in Science and Spirituality, Edward F. Kelly
15. The Emergence of Evolutionary Panentheism, Michael Murphy
