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Transcendent Mind makes a compelling case that these too often-marginalized transpersonal experiences are not incidental but essential to an understanding of who we are as humans...their scholarship leads the reader to premises they believe the studies point to philosophically and rigorously challenge assumptions about mind-body interaction. I highly recommend this book. --PsycCRITIQUESScientists such as these, who step beyond dogma (and sometimes beyond job-preservation) into the unexplored frontiers, deserve to be gratefully admired. --Light of ConsciousnessTranscendent Mind is a landmark text in the history of western psychology. It is perhaps the first postmaterialist psychology textbook of the 21st century. It offers a rational analysis of theories of consciousness and a rigorous discussion of essentially all the data collected in western science that speak to the possibility of shared mind, and mind without brain. It is data-driven yet open-minded and scholarly, yet accessible. It should be required reading for a new generation of consciousness investigators. --Leanna J. Standish, PhD, ND, LAc, FABNO, Professor, School of Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA; and School of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Washington, SeattleFew people on the planet can match Imants Baru s and Julia Mossbridge in their familiarity with and understanding of the relevant research and in their perspective to put that research into context. Transcendent Mind stands out among other books on consciousness in its consideration of all the data both for and against various interpretations, and in its rigorous scientific thinking about mind body interactions. --Bruce Greyson, MD, Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, CharlottesvilleHere is a breath of clean fresh air for the serious explorer of consciousness. I've waited my whole career for such a book, given to us now by two of the foremost researchers in the field. --Allan Leslie Combs, PhD, Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies and Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; President, The Society for Consciousness Studies
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About the Author
Imants Barušs, PhD, is a professor of psychology at King's University College at Western University Canada, where he has been teaching undergraduate courses about consciousness for 29 years. His research has been focused on the fundamental nature of consciousness, and he has had academic papers published not only in consciousness journals, but also in psychology, philosophy, physics, mathematics, anthropology, and other science journals. He is the author of five previous books, including Authentic Knowing: The Convergence of Science and Spiritual Aspiration and Alterations of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists.Julia Mossbridge, PhD, is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a Visiting Scholar in Psychology at Northwestern University. She pursues an understanding of time, especially in terms of the relationships between conscious and nonconscious processing of events. In 2014, she received the Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions award for her work in bringing the phenomenon of presentiment to the mainstream. Dr. Mossbridge is the author of Unfolding: The Science of Your Soul s Work and the upcoming mystical/philosophical adventure The Garden: An Inside Experiment.
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 1 edition (August 15, 2016)
Language: English
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a kingdom called Science whose citizens were guided by a uniform belief — that their consciousness is produced by the chemistry, physiology, and anatomy of the physical brain. Forfeited in this belief was the capacity for free will, as well as any higher meaning and purpose to existence. The possibility that consciousness might survive the physical death of the brain and body was considered heretical and blasphemous. Enormous pressure was exerted on the guardians of science to conform to the concept of materialism undergirding this precious belief system. In support of these beliefs, the centurions of science marshaled enormous bodies of data that, they were convinced, confirmed their views. They were so emphatic in their position that data to the contrary were largely dismissed as irrelevant, and those who dared to challenge the materialistic perspective were often denigrated as traitors to the scientific tradition. But just when the materialistic perspective was considered beyond reproach and safe from significant challenge, there came this shocking announcement from two prominent consciousness researchers: “We are in the midst of a sea change. Receding from view is materialism, whereby physical phenomena are assumed to be primary and consciousness is regarded as secondary. Approaching our sights is a complete reversal of perspective. According to this alternative view, consciousness is primary and the physical is secondary. In other words, materialism is receding and giving way to ideas about reality in which consciousness plays a key role.†This is the opening salvo of Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness (page 3). I have introduced my comments about Transcendent Mind as a kind of fairy tale, a product of the imagination, because that is how this book may be regarded by those who have not followed the revelations of consciousness research for the past few decades. Across this period, a formidable body of data has accumulated that the materialistic credo is not merely off base in a few minor details, but is fundamentally flawed beyond repair. The trend toward this view is “quietly occurring within a swiftly evolving and increasingly postmaterialist paradigm,†the authors contend. The explanation of how this “sea change†has come about is the theme of Transcendent Mind. In their challenge to materialism, authors Barušs and Mossbridge contend that “the deep structures underlying our waking consciousness are fundamentally spatially and temporally nonlocal in nature (page 81).†The implications for our understanding of our own minds, and the practical ways in which we lead our lives, are enormous. The authors explore empirical data, too long ignored, indicating that “consciousness is capable of existing in an extended or transcendent state in which it is not completely bound to the brain (page 171).†This data supports the concept of “shared mind,†minds linked across space and time to form a collective, unitary human consciousness. This view of nonlocal, shared, transcendent mind is supported by abundant empirical evidence, as the authors show, such as near-death experiences, telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. These phenomena might be predicted from an “unconstrained mind that is directly connected to other minds, probably outside the usual confines of space and apparent time (page 177).†Do not suppose that the idea that consciousness is fundamental and irreducible to anything more basic is some hare-brained notion conjured in the fever dreams of wayward new agers, as is often charged. In fact, consciousness as fundamental has an impressive pedigree. It has been endorsed by some of the greatest figures of twentieth-century science such as Max Planck, the founder of quantum physics: “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.†Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, agreed: “Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.†As to the contention of Barušs and Mossbridge of shared, unitary minds, we find Schrödinger in agreement: “The overall number of minds is just one…. In truth there is only one mind.†And as the eminent physicist David Bohm observed, “Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty … and if we don’t see this it’s because we are blinding ourselves to it.†(Citations for these quotations are available in my book One Mind, mentioned below.) If you are not intrigued by the evidence in Transcendent Mind, well, bear in mind the adage, “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation.†But if you are among those who are hesitant to adopt materialism as part of your personal credo, this erudite, reader-friendly book will perhaps fill in some of the blanks on your map of reality. You may discover not only empirical evidence for transcendent, shared mind, but for a transcendent reality as well.~ Larry Dossey, MDAuthor: One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
In the times in which we live, every aspect of our lives as members of our civil society and as individuals is touched, colored, and largely controlled by the foundational world view held by the major scientific, academic,corporate, and political entities. And while this arrangement is normal enough, if the foundational world view is inadequate or flawed, everything that follows will have and perhaps magnify those inadequacies and flaws. This has been the case for a few centuries ever since science began to view the world through the lens of lifeless atoms. Reducing matter, even complex human beings into nothing more than "complex collections of molecules" makes it OK to depersonalize people, treat animals as industrial inputs, and treat our environmental resources as ours to exploit. The fly in this ointment is the chance that this world view is flawed; that consciousness is a fundamental force of existence; that we are all connected; that in the web of life everything affects everything else. For there to be a change from the prevailing world view, the change will have to come from the community of science, as that is where the foundation lays. And for that change to start, there has to be a set of first principles set down, there has to be and agreement on the definition of words and terms, and there has to be sufficient research all ready done, even if not widely recognized, that both refutes the current world view and lays a more or less clear path towards an imagined future, better world view. This is precisely what this book achieves. It is a foundational text in the path to this new world view. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I cannot rate this book highly enough!This is simply the most intelligent consideration of this topic in print. The meticulous research, honesty even when it is not in favor of the hypothesis, collection of data, and the absolutely brilliant offering of multiple interpretations of data is unsurpassed.
I read and watched vidoes quite extensively on consciousness, parapsychology, and stuff like that as prep for a research paper on Consciousness. I am very impressed with this new milestone book from APA Press. The book is very well written, and worth a read. Now, if only they would not price it so high!Consciousness is primary; it exists independently and prior to materials. The authors present a fantastic overarching narrative on Consciousness, with scientifically documented instances that can not be explained by ordinary materialistic perspective. From a falsifiability criterion, then traditional science fails miserably.- There is a fantastic story of a long drawn-out chess game being played in the 1980s between a top chess grandmaster Geza Maroczy who had died in 1951, and Viktor Korchnoi, one of the top grandmasters of the 1980s. A chess novice acts as a 'medium' to connect with Maroczy. The game went on to 48 moves over 7 years, and everyone was watching. They could see that the playing style was definitely Maroczy's. How could that game be possible?- There is another story of a question about a very abstract and rarely discussed cosmological constant being asked to Richard Feynmann, the famous physicist, after his death. This was done through a lady who almost routinely acts as a 'medium' for many dead souls, but knows nothing about physics. What looked like a stupid answer from the medium, was actually the correct answer when the authors looked up Feynmann's documents.There are other stories on precognition, Near Death Experiences and more. Overall, this book is a solidly researched and compiled book.
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