The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together

The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together

Language: English

Pages: 416

ISBN: 1572246456

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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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Arrogantly expressed philosophy of life that pretends to be the same as essential science but isn’t. Until we learn to distinguish essential science from scientism, we remain vulnerable to false invalidation, which seems to have the full power and prestige of science behind it but is really an arbitrary, philosophical opinion. And we lose the ability to constructively apply essential science to increase our understanding of and effectiveness with spirituality. To see what essential science is,.

Begin looking at the cards one by one, in sequence. He would look at each card for a designated length of time, say half a minute, while trying to send the identity of that card to a distant percipient. Starting at the same time, the percipient, in another room, would try to get an impression of what the card was and either write it down or tell it to an experimenter, who wrote it down. After completion, the order of the deck of target cards would be compared to the percipient’s calls, hits would.

Precognition. I can’t claim that when the theory of transtemporal inhibition finally clarified in my mind that I, like Archimedes, leaped out of my bathtub and ran naked down the street shouting, “Eureka! I’ve found it!” (24) It gelled in my mind more slowly, after going in other, fruitless directions. But I was pleased and felt very clever. But, as I noted in describing the process of essential science and essential common sense in chapter 2, the feeling of understanding and cleverness is nice,.

Fall to the floor. When I didn’t hit immediately, I knew that I had disassociated. I moved away from the physical and through a darkened area, then came upon two men and a woman. The “seeing” wasn’t too good but better as I came closer. The woman, tall, dark-haired, in her forties (?) was sitting on a loveseat or couch. Seated to the right of her was one man. In front of her and to her left slightly was the second man. They all were strangers to me and were in conversation which I could not hear.

1950s—without the hard and scary part of coming close to death, of course! As NDE researcher P. M. H. Atwater (1988) and others have documented, however, it’s often not a simple matter that you start out “ordinary,” have an extraordinary experience, and then “live happily ever after.” Years of confusion, conflict, and struggle may be necessary as you try to make sense of the NDE and its aftermath, and to integrate this new understanding into your life. Part of that struggle and integration takes.

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