Embracing Mind The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality

Name: Embracing Mind The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
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ISBN: 9781590306833

ISBN-10: 159030683X

ISBN-13: 9781590306833

Edition: 2009

Authors: B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel

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The mind is the place where science and spirituality can meet. Here a renowned scientist who is also a teacher of Buddhist meditation explores the nature of mind from scientific and spiritual perspectives to present a new model that incorporates the truths of contemplative spirituality. "This book shows clearly and compellingly how Buddhism and other spiritual traditions may help enrich our understanding of the mind and its role in nature, without reducing it merely to a material function or property of the brain."H. H. the Dalai Lama.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.902

B. Alan Wallace teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Gary A. Tubb is Dharam Hinduja Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit Teaching and Indic Research in the Department of Religion, Columbia University.Emery R. Boose is the Information and Computer Systems Manager at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University.



Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction



What's Wrong with This Picture?



A Shotgun Wedding-The Marriage of Science and Christianity



When You Least Expect It-Materialism Undermined



When Believing Is Seeing-How Belief Influences Perception



The Mind behind the Eyepiece-Limits on Scientific Objectivity



Masquerade-Scientific Materialism Poses as Science



Consciousness-Completing the Picture



Coming Full Circle-And Meeting the East



Deciding What's True-Objectivity and Empiricism in Contemplation



Illuminating the Black Boxes of Mind and Matter



Science and Contemplation-Probing the Mind Together



A Science of Consciousness? One Provocative Example from the Buddhist Tradition



Tools and Technologies of a Buddhist Science of Contemplation



Shamatha-Meditative Quiescence



Vipashyana-Insight Meditation



The Great Perfection



"Complementary" Practices


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index