Mind Before Matter Vision of a New Science of Consciousness

by Pfeiffer, Trish; Mack, John E.; Devereux, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781846940576
• ISBN10: 1846940575
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-21
• Publisher: Iff Books

Summary

Materialism is the dominant worldview in the West today. But it is only one worldview, and it doesn't completely work, even, ironically, being gradually undermined by the science that gave rise to it. Containing the last unpublished writing of Pulitzer prize-winning author and scholar, the late John Mack, this anthology of essays from significant figures in the world of science and consciousness studies sketches the framework for a new model of realit--one based on the primacy of consciousness rather than of matter. It is a model we will need for survival on this planet. Mind Before Matter represents the first concerted salvo in a debate that could affect the worldview held by the modern, dominant culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 1
Notes on the Contributors	p. 2
Associate Editor's Notes: Paul Devereux	p. 10
Prologue: Trish Pfeiffer: Purpose, Vision, and Inspiration	p. 12
Introduction: John E. Mack: Why Worldviews Matter	p. 17
Foreword: Larry Dossey: Nonlocal Mind: Why It Matters	p. 19
Science	p. 30
Introduction to the essays in this section	p. 31
From Information to Transformation	p. 34
Reductionism and Consciousness	p. 51
If All is Consciousness, What Then is My Body?	p. 64
The Living Universe: Toward a New Perceptual Paradigm	p. 70
Elements of the New Concept of Consciousness	p. 83
Prologue to a New Model of a Living Universe	p. 95
Philosophy	p. 110
Introduction to the essays in this section
Two Suitors: A Parable	p. 111
Individual Responsibility and the Wholeness of Consciousness: (A Conversation)	p. 118
Two Stories - Conflicting Visions of the Human Possible	p. 138
The Power of Consciousness to Transform Politics	p. 150
In the Beginning Was Consciousness	p. 160
PSI	p. 170
Introduction to the essays in this section	p. 171
A Brief History of the Potential Future	p. 173
Consciousness and Parapsychology: A Thought Experiment	p. 176
The Moveable Feast	p. 186
The Transformational Perspective: An Emerging Worldview	p. 200
Communion	p. 217
Introduction to the essays in this section
The Inner Net of the Heart: The Fractal Nature of Consciousness	p. 220
A Metaphysical Revolution? Reflections on the Idea of the Primacy of Consciousness	p. 238
Thoughts on a World in Which Consciousness is Reality	p. 256
Communion	p. 273
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