The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit TogetherNew Harbinger Publications, 2009 - 397 páginas 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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Chapter 1 | 19 |
Chapter 2 | 33 |
Figure 21 Basic Scientific Method | 43 |
Chapter 3 | 53 |
Figure 31 Totally Materialistic View of Consciousness | 68 |
Figure 32 General Spiritual View of Life and Consciousness | 71 |
Chapter 4 | 75 |
Chapter 5 | 89 |
Chapter 10 | 169 |
Figure 101 Size of Wounds Before Psychic Healing in Grads Study | 172 |
Figure 102 Size of Wounds After Psychic Healing in Grads Study | 173 |
Figure 103 Psychically Healed vs Control Seedlings | 175 |
Chapter 11 | 177 |
Figure 111 SwimmingPool Complex Repeat of Figure 73 | 182 |
Two Water Towers from Old Palo Alto Water Plant | 183 |
Chapter 12 | 189 |
Figure 51 Basic Paraconceptual Experiment | 92 |
Figure 52 Zener Cards for Testing Basic ESP Functions | 96 |
Chapter 6 | 99 |
Figure 61 Basic Telepathy Experiment | 100 |
Figure 62 Charles Tart Sending with TenChoice Trainer | 103 |
Figure 63 Student Percipient Using the TenChoice Trainer | 105 |
Chapter 7 | 115 |
Figure 71 Basic Clairvoyance Experiment | 117 |
Figure 72 RemoteViewing Procedure | 121 |
Figure 73 SwimmingPool Complex RemoteViewing Target | 124 |
Figure 74 RemoteViewing Evaluation Method | 125 |
Chapter 8 | 131 |
Figure 81 Precognition Test Procedure | 132 |
Figure 82 Precognitive RemoteViewing Example | 135 |
An InformationSharpening Process for Touch | 144 |
Figure 84 Transtemporal Inhibition | 145 |
Chapter 9 | 151 |
Figure 91 Basic Psychokinesis PK Experiment | 152 |
Artists Sketch of D D Home with One Hand on End of Accordion Mounted in Shielding Cage | 154 |
Figure 93 PK Dice Apparatus | 158 |
Figure 94 Spinning Silver Coin PK Test Apparatus in the Authors Office at the University of California Davis | 163 |
Figure 95 Apparatus for PK Test with Spinning Silver Coin | 164 |
Figure 121 OBE Study with Miss Z Lab Setup | 201 |
Figure 122 EEG Ordinary Dreaming and OBE Alphoid Patterns of Miss Z | 203 |
Chapter 13 | 225 |
Figure 131 Transpersonal Realm | 239 |
Chapter 14 | 243 |
Chapter 15 | 257 |
Figure 151 Mediumship from the Perspective of Spiritualism | 260 |
Figure 152 Materialists Model of Mediumship | 261 |
Figure 153 R101 Airship | 264 |
Figure 155 SuperPsi Explanation of Mediumship Data | 268 |
Chapter 16 | 277 |
Figure 161 Reincarnation of John McConnell? | 285 |
Chapter 17 | 289 |
Chapter 18 | 295 |
Chapter 19 | 301 |
Chapter 20 | 329 |
Appendix 1 | 341 |
Appendix 2 | 351 |
Appendix 3 | 365 |
Appendix 4 | 369 |