Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
de Horgan, John
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- Good. No dust jacket. Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality by Horgan, John Mass-marke
- ISBN 10
- 0618060278
- ISBN 13
- 9780618060276
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Luxemburg, Wisconsin, United States
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John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanicsand meaningof mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more to narrow the gap between reason and mystical phenomena. As both a seeker and an award-winning journalist, Horgan consulted a wide range of experts, including theologian Huston Smith, spiritual heir to Joseph Campbell; Andrew Newberg, the scientist whose quest for the God module” was the focus of a Newsweek cover story; Ken Wilber, prominent transpersonal psychologist; Alexander Shulgin, legendary psychedelic drug chemist; and Susan Blackmore, Oxford-educated psychologist, parapsychology debunker, and Zen practitioner. Horgan explores the striking similarities between mystical technologies” like sensory deprivation, prayer, fasting, trance, dancing, meditation, and drug trips. He participates in experiments that seek the neurological underpinnings of mystical experiences. And, finally, he recounts his own search for enlightenment adventurous, poignant, and sometimes surprisingly comic. Horgan’s conclusions resonate with the controversial climax of The End of Science, because, as he argues, the most enlightened mystics and the most enlightened scientists end up in the same place confronting the imponderable depth of the universe.
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- Librería
- Red Rover Do Over (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.0038088
- Título
- Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
- Autor
- Horgan, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good. No dust jacket. Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality by Horgan, John Mass-marke
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0618060278
- ISBN 13
- 9780618060276
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
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