Consciousness Unbound

Name: Consciousness Unbound
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538181911
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Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism

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Consciousness Unbound builds on pioneering research to explore extraordinary experiences and their implications for understanding reality. Edited by Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall, this collection presents an emerging middle ground between religious belief and scientific materialism, advocating for an expanded science-based view that embraces spiritual phenomena while avoiding irrational overbeliefs. The book proposes a vision that counters disillusionment with the world, affirming human freedom, meaningful choice, and untapped human potential. It emphasises our profound interconnectedness and the urgent need for a sustainable global community.
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This thoughtful volume is suited for readers interested in philosophy, psychology, consciousness studies, and spirituality, particularly those open to scientific approaches that challenge conventional physicalism and explore human potential beyond material explanations.

Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to address the most recent advances in the psychology of consciousness.

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Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to consider the significance of extraordinary experiences for our understanding of reality.

Currently emerging as a middle ground between warring fundamentalisms of religion and science, an expanded science-based understanding of nature finally accommodates empirical realities of spiritual sorts while also rejecting rationally untenable overbeliefs.

The vision sketched here provides an antidote to the prevailing postmodern disenchantment of the world and demeaning of human possibilities. It not only more accurately and fully reflects our human condition but also engenders hope and encourages ego-surpassing forms of human flourishing.

It offers reasons for us to believe that freedom is real, that our human choices matter, and that we have barely scratched the surface of our human potentials. It also addresses the urgent need for a greater sense of worldwide community and interdependence—a sustainable ethos—by demonstrating that under the surface we and the world are much more extensively interconnected than previously recognised.

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The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology praises the book for robustly supporting post-materialist principles, such as the idea that consciousness is fundamental and cannot be reduced to physical brain processes. The editors assemble ten scholars who critically examine physicalism and argue, drawing from anomalies, philosophy, psychology, parapsychology, and neuroscience, that consciousness is indeed unbound and not confined to the brain.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538181911

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Illustration: 3 b/w illustrations;

Contributors:

Edited by Edward F. Kelly
Edited by Paul Marshall
Edited by Paul Marshall
Edited by Paul Marshall

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 830g

Pages: 530

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About the Author

Edward F. Kelly is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, with interests in psychical research and functional neuroimaging. He is lead author of three previous books: Computer Recognition of English Word Senses; Altered States of Consciousness and Psi: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus; and Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century.

Paul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, philosophy and psychology of religion, science-religion relations, and consciousness studies. He is author of three previous books, The Living Mirror: Images of Reality in Science and Mysticism; Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations; and The Shape of the Soul: What Mystical Experience Tells Us about Ourselves and Reality.