Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Author of Mystical Encounters with the Natural World Klappentext Practically every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPreface and Acknowledgments1. A View from the Mainstream: Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience and the Consciousness Debates2. F. W. H. Myers and the Empirical Study of the Mind-Body Problem3. Psychophysiological Influence4. Memory5. Automatism and Secondary Centers of Consciousness6. Unusual Experiences Near Death and Related Phenomena7. Genius8. Mystical Experience9. Toward a Psychology for the 21st CenturyAbout the AuthorsReferencesAppendix: An Annotated Introductory Bibliography of Psychical Research

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• Authors: Edward F. 5elly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Edward F. Kelly, Emily W. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2009
• EAN: 9781442202061
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0206-1
• No. of pages: 800
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 50 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychologie / Allgemeines, Einführung, Lexikon, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Psychologie