Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality

Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1997-01-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1438404859

In this book, David Ray Griffin, best known for his work on the problem of evil, turns his attention to the even more controversial topic of parapsychology. Griffin examines why scientists, philosophers, and theologians have held parapsychology in disdain and argues that neither a priori philosophical attacks nor wholesale rejection of the evidence can withstand scrutiny. After articulating a constructive postmodern philosophy that allows the parapsychological evidence to be taken seriously, Griffin examines this evidence extensively. He identifies four types of repeatable phenomena that suggest the reality of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. Then, on the basis of a nondualistic distinction between mind and brain, which makes the idea of life after death conceivable, he examines five types of evidence for the reality of life after death: messages from mediums; apparitions; cases of the possession type; cases of the reincarnation type; and out-of-body experiences. His philosophical and empirical examinations of these phenomena suggest that they provide support for a postmodern spirituality that overcomes the thinness of modern religion without returning to supernaturalism.

Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality

Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780791433157

Examines why parapsychology has been held in disdain by scientists, philosophers, and theologians, explores the evidence for ESP, psychokinesis, and life after death, and suggests that these phenomena provide support for a meaningful postmodern spirituality.

Parapsychology and Religion

Parapsychology and Religion
Author: Everton de Oliveira Maraldi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9004467831

Everton Maraldi explores how research on alleged anomalous processes informs the study of religious/spiritual experiences and examines the theoretical and methodological possibilities and challenges of an interdisciplinary dialogue between parapsychology and psychology of religion.

Parapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind

Parapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind
Author: Fiona Steinkamp
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-10-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1476621802

John Beloff is one of our foremost authorities in parapsychology. He is credited with an instrumental role in the acceptance of parapsychology into academia. On April 21 and 22, 2000, a two-day international conference was held by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit of the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh to celebrate Beloff's eightieth birthday. Most of the essays in this work were presented at this conference honoring John Beloff. All of the contributors have published a number of articles in mainstream philosophy and their essays promote Beloff's greatest interest--a philosophical interaction with parapsychology. The book is divided into three sections and each section has three papers. The papers in the first section, "Parapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind," explore "the mind-brain problem," parapsychology and the principle of closure, and a cross-cultural perspective on dualism and the self. The second section, "Parapsychology, Self and Survival," looks at parapsychological phenomena and the sense of self, chrysalid therapy, and the problem of super psi. The third section, "Parapsychology, Religion and Spirituality," features papers that discuss parapsychology and how it relates to Hume's view of miracles, to religion, and to the origin of the Copernican hypothesis.

The Science of Spirit

The Science of Spirit
Author: Luis Portela
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1476641528

Throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium, humanity has made enormous advancements in science and technology. Spiritual enlightenment, however, has gone relatively neglected, as fascination with material progress tends to keep us focused on the physical world, giving less importance to universal values, to being, to spiritual life. Parapsychological research has produced significant findings over the last few decades, and science has the obligation to continue exploring this area, seeking to contribute to the spiritual enlightenment of humanity. This book examines evidence of traditional psychic phenomena, promoting a more comprehensive understanding of them, and offering new perspective to see ourselves as particles of "universal energy," interconnected with all others.

Religion and Scientific Naturalism

Religion and Scientific Naturalism
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2000-05-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780791445631

Articulates a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible.

Spirituality and Society

Spirituality and Society
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780887068539

This book takes a genuinely new spiritual stance reflecting the emergence of a post-modern science and differing from the relativistic nihilism that calls itself postmodern but is really modernism extended to its limit. Based on a direct experience of reality as divine, this postmodern spirituality transcends modernity's individualism and patriarchy, its forced choices between dualism and materialism, anthropocentrism and relativism, supernaturalism and atheism, intolerance and nihilism. Bringing moral and ethical values back into rational discourse, this book provides a critique of various aspects of modern society--political, economic, social, agricultural, and technological aspects. This criticism, informed by the postmodern worldview, points toward a more satisfying form of personal existence and a sustainable form of global order.

Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy

Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791480305

Postmodern philosophy is often dismissed as unintelligible, self-contradictory, and as a passing fad with no contribution to make to the problems faced by philosophers in our time. While this characterization may be true of the type of philosophy labeled postmodern in the 1980s and 1990s, David Ray Griffin argues that Alfred North Whitehead had formulated a radically different type of postmodern philosophy to which these criticisms do not apply. Griffin shows the power of Whitehead's philosophy in dealing with a range of contemporary issues—the mind-body relation, ecological ethics, truth as correspondence, the relation of time in physics to the (irreversible) time of our lives, and the reality of moral norms. He also defends a distinctive dimension of Whitehead's postmodernism, his theism, against various criticisms, including the charge that it is incompatible with relativity theory.

I, Universe

I, Universe
Author: Darryl Sloan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781910098042

What is the true underlying nature of reality and what is my place in it? Does my life have meaning, or am I a cosmic accident? Is it possible to know? And where do I even begin? Darryl Sloan brings together insights from the spheres of religion, philosophy, science, psychology, parapsychology and occultism.