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Informationen zum Autor B. Alan Wallace spent fourteen years as a Buddhist monk! ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama. He then earned his undergraduate degree! summa cum laude! in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College! and his doctorate in religious studies from Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books are Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science! Buddhism! and Christianity! Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge! and Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (editor). A prolific writer who has translated numerous Tibetan Buddhist texts! he is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://www.sbinstitute.com). Klappentext Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual! B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain! but do not emerge from it. Rather! the entire natural world of mind and matter! subjects and objects! arises from a unitary dimension of reality that is more fundamental than these dualities! as proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments1- The Unnatural History of Science2 - The Many Worlds of Naturalism3 - Toward a Natural Theory of Human Consciousness4- Observing the Space of the Mind5 - A Special Theory of Ontological Relativity6 - High-Energy Experiments in Consciousness7 - A General Theory of Ontological Relativity8 - Experiments in Quantum Consciousness9 - Perfect SymmetryNotesBibliography
