Irreducible Mind

By Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree , Alan Gauld , Michael Grosso , Bruce Greyson

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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete…

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Irreducible Mind is an insightful collective volume written by scientists about the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.

In this work, the authors examine several rogue phenomena (e.g. psychological automatisms and secondary personality, genius-level creativity, extreme psychophysical influence, NDEs, 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced) that cannot be accounted for by materialist (physicalist) theories.

These authors further demonstrate that these phenomena are more easily explained by an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations.

From Mario's list on the new science of consciousness.

A few years ago, I was writing a book called Spiritual Science and when people asked what it was about, I responded, “I’m trying to write a popular version of Irreducible Mind.” Irreducible Mind is a magnum opus – an attempt to move psychology beyond its present narrow limits, so that it can incorporate phenomena such as mystical/spiritual experiences and psi. More than anything, the book shows how the materialist worldview adopted by most modern academics is massively flawed, since it’s unable to explain a massive range of human experiences. Irreducible Mind is the first in a series of…

From Steve's list on spiritual psychology.

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