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Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.
Science seems to tell us that we are all meaningless products of blind biological and chemical forces, leading meaningless lives that will eventually end in death. The truth is that unseen forces such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and other phenomena inextricably link us to the spiritual world, and while many skeptics and scientists deny the existence of these spiritual phenomena, the experiences of millions of people indicate that they do take place.
In this book, copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), transpersonal psychologist Charles Tart presents over fifty years of scientific research conducted at the nation's leading universities that proves humans do have natural spiritual impulses and abilities. The End of Materialism presents an elegant argument for the union of science and spirituality in light of this new evidence, and explains why a truly rational viewpoint must address the reality of a spiritual world. Tart's work marks the beginning of an evidence-based spiritual awakening that will profoundly influence your understanding of the deeper forces at work in our lives.
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The validation of psychic phenomena,
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This review is from: The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (Ions / Nhp) (Hardcover)
The End of Materialism: How evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together by Charles T. Tart, New Harbinger Publications, CA, 2009, 400 ff.
The validation of psychic phenomena This highly readable book by an eminent psychologist gives an overview of much hard empirical evidence for psychic phenomena, focusing on what the author calls the `big five' of telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis and psychic healing. The author approaches the subject as a skeptic, not as one who is already converted and is making a case for personal beliefs. This air of scientific detachment coupled with intense personal involvement (because these phenomena and the consequences of their existence are important to us all) pervades the whole book. There are many personal anecdotes provided from the life of the author and his colleagues; but there are also details and further references of much laboratory work that has been done in these subject areas, some of it published in books available on this website, but some of it in journals, not all of which will be readily accessible to those of us not working in this field. There are also some details of psychic phenomena from fields that the author himself says he is not entirely convinced of - postcognition, OBEs, NDEs, mediumship and reincarnation. But again the author's treatment is objective, lamenting the fact that so little research is being done in these areas. As a scientist myself, I cannot see, unless a reader is wedded to scientism, which the author deplores, how anyone could reject such a body of evidence provided by reputable investigators as being fantasy or fraud. My one slight disappointment was the lack of any quantum physics interpretation of spiritual phenomena to bring spiritualism and science together at a fundamental level; but the author says that this is not his specialism and he directs readers to other authors whose specialism it is, like Dean Radin (Entangled Minds). From this and many other earlier books on the subject, the scientific case for the existence of psychic phenomena must surely be regarded as proven. As the author says, it remains now to encourage popular acceptance of a widespread rationally based spirituality to replace the stultifying dogma of scriptural religion. Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books (John Hunt Publishing) of Winchester, UK Parapsychology: The Controversial Science Entangled Minds Twin Telepathy
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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The end of Scientistic dogma too maybe?,
This review is from: The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (Ions / Nhp) (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book. Charles Tart handles the subject matter in an insightfull, warm and occasionally humorous way, and I found that I had reached the end of the book in record time. It was just so easy to read.
Charles Tart looks at many of the issues that plague the everyday person and where they stand in relation to the existance of paranormal/psi abilities/events. As he acknowledges, most people seem to sway from one extreme to the other, not wanting to delude themselves so pulling back to the materialistic viewpoint, but then on seeing some of the interesting evidence for the paranormal, swaying back into the other direction. I think his own approach, healthy skepticism and an analysis of his own failings as a fallible human in his own observations, are the best, middle way to go for any even minded person. This was a great read, and Im still mulling it over even now. No doubt this book will get read again any day now.
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Challenging,
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A robust book in all ways.A willingness to take on sloppy thinking in himself and others and challenge the many naive presumptions we make on the nature of belief and reality.
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