I\u2019ve put together here a list of books, scientists, philosophers and organizations (online and \u201cphysical\u201d!) who are challenging the materialistic views which are perhaps the greatest impediment to the progress of science.<\/p>\n
Here are some recommendations of books to read that in some way or other challenge materialism. This is from Dr. Larry Dossey.\u00a0 Among his recommendations, I would particularly cite Smith\u2019s \u201cBeyond the Postmodern Mind\u201d, Radin\u2019s \u201cConscious Universe\u201d, \u201cvan Lommel\u2019s \u201cConsciousness Beyond Life\u201d, Carter\u2019s \u201cParapsychology and the Skeptics\u201d, and Tart\u2019s \u201cThe End of Materialism.\u201d Perhaps the best of all \u2013 though a challenging read, heavily researched \u2013 is Kelley\u2019s \u2018Irreducible Mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Larry Dossey\u2019s recommendations; \u00a0Among the books that are accessible to laypersons and professionals alike are Peter Russell’s The Global Brain<\/i>,33 David Lorimer’s Whole in One<\/i>,34 Nick Herbert’s Elemental Mind<\/i>,35 Huston Smith’s Beyond the PostModern Mind<\/i>,36 David Bohm’s Wholeness and the Implicate Order<\/i>,37 David Darling’s Soul Search<\/i>,4 Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne’s Consciousness and the Source of Reality<\/i>,38 Rupert Sheldrake’s A New Science of Life<\/i>,39 Lynne McTaggart’s The Field<\/i>,40 Ervin Laszlo’s The Akashic Experience<\/i>,41 and Science and the Akashic Field<\/i>,42 Menas Kafatos and Robert Nadeau’s The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality<\/i>,43 and The Non-Local Universe<\/i>,44 Dean Radin’s The Conscious Universe<\/i>,45 and Entangled Minds<\/i>,46 Stephan A. Schwartz’s Opening to the Infinte<\/i>,47 Pim van Lommel’s Consciousness Beyond Life<\/i>,48 Charles T. Tart’s The End of Materialism<\/i>,49 Russell Targ’s Limitless Mind<\/i>,50 and The Reality of ESP<\/i>,51 Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer’s Extraordinary Knowing<\/i>,52 Chris Carter’s Parapsychology and the Skeptics<\/i>,53 Mario Beauregard’s Brain Wars<\/i>,31 Edward F. Kelley and colleagues’ Irreducible Mind<\/i>,5 Eben Alexander’s Into the Afterlife: A Neurosurgeon’s Near Death Experience<\/i>,54 my forthcoming book The One Mind<\/i>,55 and many, many others that are too numerous to name.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of philosophers of science from the authors of \u201cThe Waning of Materialism\u201d.\u00a0 These are individuals who either have rejected materialism (and physicalism and naturalism and whatever else you want to call it \u2013 for the rest of this blog post I\u2019m sticking with \u201cmaterialism\u201d) or are coming to question it. It\u2019s a particularly interesting list as some \u2013 like Searle and Kim \u2013 have been stalwart proponents of materialism for years and are just starting to question their faith.\u00a0 Others gave up on fundamaterialism many years ago.<\/p>\n
Hilary Putnam, John Searle, Jerrold Katz, Alvin Plantinga, Charles Parsons, Jaegwon Kim, George Myro, Thomas Nagel, Robert Adams, Hugh Mellor, Saul Kripke, Eli Hirsch, Ernest Sosa, Stephen Schiffer, Bas van Fraassen, John McDowell, Peter Unger, Derek Parfit, Crispin Wright, Laurence BonJour, Michael Jubien, Nancy Cartwright, Bob Hale, Kit Fine, Tyler Burge, Terence Horgan, ColinMcGinn, Robert Brandom, Nathan Salmon, Joseph Levine, TimothyWilliamson, Mark Johnston, Paul Boghossian, Stephen Yablo, Joseph Almog, Keith DeRose, Tim Crane, John Hawthorne, Richard Heck, David Chalmers.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s see, here\u2019s some more:<\/p>\n
Alan Wallace, The Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies<\/p>\n
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Thomas McFarlane. A student of Franklin Merrell-Wolff and mathematician, he has an \u201cintegral science\u201d website with some very interesting articles.<\/p>\n
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A number of members of Wisdom\u2019s Goldenrod, who are students of Paul Brunton and Anthony Damiani, have written articles on science and spirituality.<\/p>\n
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The Institute of Noetic Sciences has a great deal of non-materialist research.<\/p>\n
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There are mindfulness-related centers at Emory University and Brown University.\u00a0 There is actually a non-duality based center at New York University.
\nOf course, the \u201cscience and non duality\u201d website is a good place to look \u2013 it has a very wide range of quality \u2013 from almost commercial neo-vedanta nonduality talks to very high quality videos of people talking about new and at times visionary ways of doing non materialist science.\u00a0 Check out Tom McFarlane and Bernardo Kastrup who have particularly good videos (Tom has a great presentation on Vimeo also).<\/p>\n
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Don DeGracia is a physiologist who has a site on lucid dreaming and out of body experence. He is not only interested in subtle or subliminal phenomena; he has some interesting philosophic writings as well.<\/p>\n
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Douglas Harding\u2019s outstanding book, \u201cThe Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth\u201d is long and difficult to read, but it is an amazing revisioning of a wide range of science from a nondualist view.<\/p>\n
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