Spirituality
The Legacy of Parapsychology
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Spirituality is a topic of recent interest. Mindfulness, for example, a concept derived from the Buddhist tradition, has captivated the imagination of clinicians who package it in convenient intervention programs for patients. Spirituality and religion have been researched with reference to potential health benefits. Spirituality can be conceptualised as the alignment of the individual with the whole, experientially, motivationally and in action. For spirituality to unfold its true potential it is necessary to align this new movement with the mainstream of science, and vice versa. Hence, both a historical review, and a systematic attempt at integration is called for, which we are trying to give here. It is useful to go back to one of the roots: parapsychology. Parapsychology was founded as a counter movement to the rising materialist paradigm in the 19th century. Adopting the methods of the natural sciences, it tried to prove the direct influence of consciousness on matter. After 125 years this mission must be declared unaccomplished. Surveying the database of parapsychological research it is obvious that it will not convince sceptics: Although there are enough exceptional findings, it has in general not been possible to reproduce them in replication experiments. This is, however, a characteristic signature of a category of effects which we call effects of generalised entanglement, predicted by a theoretical model analogous to quantum theory. Using this perspective, parapsychological effects can be understood, and the original aim of the founding fathers can be recovered, as well as a new, systematic understanding of spirituality be gained. Generalised entanglement is a formal and scientific way of explaining spirituality as alignment of an individual with a whole, which, according to the model, inevitably leads to non-local correlations
Buddhism · Consciousness · Dialectic · Epistemology · Mainstream · Materialism · Mysticism · Paranormal · Parapsychology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Reductionism · Skepticism · Spirituality · Transpersonal psychology · Computer Science · Law · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Handbook of Religion and Health
Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Mental balance and well-being
Leading scientists still reject God
Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits
Wandering Minds
Spirituality's Potential Relevance to Physical and Emotional Health
On blowing trumpets to the tulips
Reexamining psychokinesis
Complementarity in quantum mechanics
In the eye of the beholder
Causality and Complementarity
The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
German academic science and the mandarin ethos, 1850–1880
The Elusive Science
Spirituality, religion, and health
Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality
Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at
Examining psychokinesis
The restless mind
The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
The Innate Capacity
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
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