In this book, leading thinkers examine how consciousness studies, neuroscience and spirituality can be brought together. It provides both overviews of new research areas and important new theoretical advances.

Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss new areas of research, such as near death studies and neuroscience research into spiritual experiences, and report on significant new theoretical advances.

From Harald Walach's introductory essay, Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions, to the concluding chapter by Robert K. C. Foreman entitled An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model, this book represents a milestone in the progress towards an integrated understanding of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness.

It is the first in a series of books that are dedicated to this topic.

First book ever on the intersection of neuroscience, spirituality and consciousness studies. Provides both overviews of new academic fields and theoretical advances on the integration of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness studies. Major authors in this area join together to elucidate this field from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Reflects the coming of age of a new and truly interdisciplinary field of research.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Harald Walach, 1957, Professor für Forschungsmethodik komplementärer Medizin und Heilkunde und Leiter des Instituts für Transkulturelle Gesundheitsforschung an der Europa-Universität Viadrina (Frankfurt (Oder)). Promovierte an der Universität Basel (klinische Psychologie) und an der Universität Wien (Philosophie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte). Habilitierte sich 1998 an der Universität Freiburg zum Professor für Psychologie und leitete bis 2005 die "Arbeitsgruppe für Evaluation, Naturheilverfahren und Umweltmedizin". Gibt die Fachzeitschrift "Forschende Komplementärmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde" heraus und leitet die europäische Sektion des Samueli-Instituts für Informationsbiologie. Ist international als Experte für die Erforschung von Homöopathie und Fernheilungseffekten anerkannt. Auf Grundlage der Theorie der sogenannten schwachen Quantentheorie entwickelte er eine Methodik, um komplementärmedizinische Verfahren zu untersuchen und in ihrer Wirkung zu beurteilen.

Klappentext
Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss new areas of research, such as near death studies and neuroscience research into spiritual experiences, and report on significant new theoretical advances. From Harald Walach's introductory essay, Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions, to the concluding chapter by Robert K. C. Foreman entitled An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model, this book represents a milestone in the progress towards an integrated understanding of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness.It is the first in a series of books that are dedicated to this topic.

Inhalt
Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay, H. Walach.- Mindfulness in East and West is it the Same? S. Schmidt.- Setting our own Terms: How we used Ritual to Become Human, M.J. Rossano.- Neuroscience and Spirituality Findings and Consequences, M. Beauregard.- Consciousness: a Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality, D. Jeanmonod.- Generalized Entanglement - A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View, H. Walach, H. Römer .- Complementarity of Phenomenal and Physiological Observables: A Primer on Generalised Quantum Theory and its Scope for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, H. Römer, H. WalachHard problems in philosophy of mind and physics: Do they point to spirituality as a solution? N. von Stillfried.- Brain Structure and Meditation. How Spiritual Practice Shapes the Brain, U. Ott, B.K. Hölzel & D. Vaitl.- Neurophysiological correlates to psychological trait variables in experienced meditative practitioners, T. Hinterberger, et. al.- Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Science from the Inside Out, J.W. Schooler, J.N. Schooler Mindfulness meditation: deconditioning & changing view, H. Barendregt .- Endless Consciousness. A concept based on scientific studies on Near-Death Experience, P. van Lommel.- The hard problem revisited: from cognitive neuroscience to Kabbalah and back again, B.L. Lancaster.- Towards a Neuroscience of Spirituality, W.B. Jonas.- Sufism and Rapid Wound Healing, H. Hall An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model, R.K.C. Forman.