Mind Beyond Brain - David Presti

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
David E. Presti is a teaching professor of neurobiology, psychology, and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches neuroscience to Buddhist monks and nuns in India and Bhutan. He is the author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016).

Sommaire:
Foreword, by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Prologue: Deepening the Dialogue, by David E. Presti and Edward F. Kelly
1. Scientific Revolution and the Mind?Matter Relation, by David E. Presti
2. Near-Death Experiences, by Bruce Greyson
3. Reports of Past-Life Memories, by Jim B. Tucker
4. Mediums, Apparitions, and Deathbed Experiences, by Emily Williams Kelly
5. Paranormal Phenomena, the Siddhis, and an Emerging Path Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality, by Edward F. Kelly
6. An Expanded Conception of Mind, by David E. Presti
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Acknowledgments
Contributors
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