It courageously provides important philosophical critiques of the dominant physical materialist worldview along with a great deal of well-documented, challenging counter-evidence drawn from all-too-neglected fields of psychological research. This book could open important doors for any thinking person today. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University He strikes a wonderful balance between embracing and celebrating the advances of the sciences and wanting them to go further still. Presti is a perfect narrator, host, and guide here. Rich Ivry, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley Mind Beyond Brain embraces and celebrates the natural sciences and their materialist frameworks but also suggests that our understanding of the natural almost certainly needs to be expanded, greatly, and that the physicalist frameworks may not be the final answer to our deepest and most difficult questions about subjectivity, mind, or consciousness. An engaging read, sure to give a healthy intellectual prod to even the most committed physical materialist. Mind Beyond Brain represents the next level in the science and Buddhism dialogue.īeginning with the unsettling title and continuing through chapters that take an empirical approach to exploring near-death experiences, reincarnation, mediums, and apparitions, Mind Beyond Brain asks the reader to set aside preconceptions and deeply-held assumptions in order to understand the depths of human consciousness. 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. Presti describes the extensive but frequently unacknowledged history of scientific investigation into these phenomena, demonstrating its relevance to questions about consciousness and reality. 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. In Mind Beyond Brain, the neuroscientist David E. The encounter between these two worldviews has spurred ongoing conversations about what science and Buddhism can teach each other about mind and reality. For millennia, philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers have attempted answers, perhaps none more meaningful today than those offered by neuroscience and by Buddhism. Although the doubts are overwhelming,, but Lok has no interest in it.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. In the face of all sorts of strange phenomena that have exceeded everyone’s perception, Ah Lok can’t help wondering if someone has inadvertently touched some taboos. The strange atmosphere enveloped the entire program group, and Ah Lok was also caught in it. Also, the actress Kathy’s behavior became very weird. The members of the crew disappeared one after another. Although a few accidents happened at the beginning, they insisted to film the show. They intended to film a short video for their online supernatural channel ”Beyond the Invisible”. During the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a group of young people gathered in Kowloon Walled City.
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