Autorentext
Marjorie Hines Woollacott, PhD, has been a neuroscience professor at the University of Oregon for more than three decades and a meditator for almost four. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and she coauthored a popular textbook for health professionals and has written more than 180 peer-reviewed research articlesseveral of which were on meditation, the topic that motivated her to write Infinite Awareness.

Klappentext

Infinite Awareness pairs Woollacott’s research as a neuroscientist with her self-revelations about her mind’s spiritual power. Between the scientific and spiritual worlds, she breaks open the definition of human consciousness to investigate the existence of a non-physical mind.

Zusammenfassung
Infinite Awareness pairs Woollacott's research as a neuroscientist with her self-revelations about her mind's spiritual power. Between the scientific and spiritual worlds, she breaks open the definition of human consciousness to investigate the existence of a non-physical mind.

Inhalt

Foreword, by Pim van Lommel

1. The Making of a Renegade
2. To Examine a Quiet Mind
3. An Unaccountable Energy
4. Consciousness, Viewed as Bottom-Up
5. The Top-Down Perspective
6. Or Is Consciousness on a Continuum?
7. Awareness without a Brain
8. Following a Near-Death Experience
9. Consciousness after Death
10. Awareness and Healing
11. The Healing Intention
12. Research into Consciousness
13. The Consciousness-Brain Interface