Walach H. Meditation: Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications

New York: Springer, 2011. — 298 p.Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss new areas of research, such as near death studies and neuroscience research into spiritual experiences, and report on significant new theoretical advances.
From Harald Walach’s introductory essay, “Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions,” to the concluding chapter by Robert K. C. Foreman entitled “An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model,” this book represents a milestone in the progress towards an integrated understanding of spirituality, neuroscience and consciousness.
It is the first in a series of books that are dedicated to this topic.Neuroscience, Consciousness, Spirituality – Questions, Problems and Potential Solutions: An Introductory Essay
Mindfulness in East and West – Is It the Same?
Setting Our Own Terms: How We Used Ritual to Become Human
Neuroscience and Spirituality – Findings and Consequences
Consciousness: A Riddle and a Key in Neuroscience and Spirituality
Generalized Entanglement – A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View of Consciousness
Complementarity of Phenomenal and Physiological Observables: A Primer on Generalised Quantum Theory and Its Scope for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies
Hard Problems in Philosophy of Mind and Physics: Do They Point to Spirituality as a Solution?
Brain Structure and Meditation: How Spiritual Practice Shapes the Brain
Neurophysiological Correlates to Psychological Trait Variables in Experienced Meditative Practitioners
Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Science from the Inside Out
Mindfulness Meditation: Deconditioning and Changing View
Endless Consciousness: A Concept Based on Scientific Studies of Near-Death Experiences
The Hard Problem Revisited: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Kabbalah and Back Again
Towards a Neuroscience of Spirituality
Sufism and Healing
An Emerging New Model for Consciousness: The Consciousness Field Model