Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality

1. Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay
Harald Walach

2. Mindfulness in East and West – Is It the Same?
Stefan Schmidt

3. Setting Our Own Terms: How We Used Ritual to Become Human
Matt J. Rossano

4. Neuroscience and Spirituality – Findings and Consequences
Mario Beauregard

5. Consciousness: A Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality
Daniel Jeanmonod

6. Generalized Entanglement – A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View of Consciousness
Harald Walach, Hartmann Römer

7. Complementarity of Phenomenal and Physiological Observables: A Primer on Generalised Quantum Theory and Its Scope for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies
Hartmann Römer, Harald Walach

8. Hard Problems in Philosophy of Mind and Physics: Do They Point to Spirituality as a Solution?
Nikolaus Stillfried

9. Brain Structure and Meditation: How Spiritual Practice Shapes the Brain
Ulrich Ott, Britta K. Hölzel, Dieter Vaitl

10. Neurophysiological Correlates to Psychological Trait Variables in Experienced Meditative Practitioners
Thilo Hinterberger, Niko Kohls, Tsutomu Kamei, Amanda Feilding, Harald Walach

11. Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Science from the Inside Out
Jonathan W. Schooler, Tam Hunt, Joel N. Schooler

12. Mindfulness Meditation: Deconditioning and Changing View
Henk Barendregt

13. Endless Consciousness: A Concept Based on Scientific Studies of Near-Death Experiences
Pim Lommel

14. The Hard Problem Revisited: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Kabbalah and Back Again
B. Les Lancaster

15. Towards a Neuroscience of Spirituality
Wayne B. Jonas

16. Sufism and Healing
Howard Hall

17. An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model
Robert K. C. Forman

Keywords: Psychology, Neuropsychology, Religious Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Neurobiology