Neuroscience, consciousness, spirituality – questions, problems and potential solutions

an introductory essay

Harald Walach

1-21

Mindfulness in East and West – is it the same?

Stefan Schmidt

23-38

Setting our own terms

how we used ritual to become human

Matt J. Rossano

39-55

Neuroscience and spirituality – findings and consequences

Mario Beauregard

57-73

Consciousness

a riddle and a key in neuroscience and spirituality

Daniel Jeanmonod

75-79

Generalized entanglement – a nonreductive option for a phenomenologically dualist and ontologically monist view of consciousness

Harald Walach, Hartmann Römer

81-95

Complementarity of phenomenal and physiological observables

a primer on generalised quantum theory and its scope for neuroscience and consciousness studies

Hartmann Römer, Harald Walach

97-107

Hard problems in philosophy of mind and physics

do they point to spirituality as a solution?

Nikolaus von Stillfried

109-118

Brain structure and meditation

how spiritual practice shapes the brain

Ulrich Ott, Britta K. Hölzel, Dieter Vaitl

119-128

Neurophysiological correlates to psychological trait variables in experienced meditative practitioners

Thilo Hinterberger, Niko Kohls, Harald Walach

129-155

Reconsidering the metaphysics of science from the inside out

Jonathan W. Schooler

157-194

Mindfulness meditation

deconditioning and changing view

Henk Barendregt

195-206

Endless consciousness

a concept based on scientific studies of near-death experiences

Pim van Lommel

207-227

The hard problem revisited

from cognitive neuroscience to kabbalah and back again

229-251

Towards a neuroscience of spirituality

Wayne B. Jonas

253-262

Sufism and healing

Howard Hall

263-278

An emerging new model for consciousness

the consciousness field model

279-288