Neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay....Pages 1-21
Mindfulness in East and West – Is It the Same?....Pages 23-38
Setting Our Own Terms: How We Used Ritual to Become Human....Pages 39-55
Neuroscience and Spirituality – Findings and Consequences....Pages 57-73
Consciousness: A Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality....Pages 75-79
Generalized Entanglement – A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View of Consciousness....Pages 81-95
Complementarity of Phenomenal and Physiological Observables: A Primer on Generalised Quantum Theory and Its Scope for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies....Pages 97-107
Hard Problems in Philosophy of Mind and Physics: Do They Point to Spirituality as a Solution?....Pages 109-118
Brain Structure and Meditation: How Spiritual Practice Shapes the Brain....Pages 119-128
Neurophysiological Correlates to Psychological Trait Variables in Experienced Meditative Practitioners....Pages 129-155
Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Science from the Inside Out....Pages 157-194
Mindfulness Meditation: Deconditioning and Changing View....Pages 195-206
Endless Consciousness: A Concept Based on Scientific Studies of Near-Death Experiences....Pages 207-227
The Hard Problem Revisited: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Kabbalah and Back Again....Pages 229-251
Towards a Neuroscience of Spirituality....Pages 253-262
Sufism and Healing....Pages 263-278
An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model....Pages 279-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-298