Is Consciousness Primary?

Perspectives from Founding Members of the
Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences

Edited by
Gary E. Schwartz, PhD
Marjorie H. Woollacott, PhD
Stephan A. Schwartz

Volume I in Advances in Postmaterialist Sciences Series

Table of Contents

The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences………i

Preface to Advances in Postmaterialist Sciences Series…………………ii

PART ONE

Math, Physics, and Consciousness

CHAPTER ONE ………………………………………………………………………….. 1

How Do Scientists Change Their Minds? The Example of

Survival of Consciousness Research, Gary E. Schwartz, PhD

CHAPTER TWO ……………………………………………………………………….. 27

Journey to Idealism, Dean Radin, PhD

CHAPTER THREE ……………………………………………………………………. 43

Mathematical Unification of Space, Time, Mass, Energy &

Consciousness, Edward R. Close, PhD

CHAPTER FOUR ……………………………………………………………………… 97

Bridging the Perceived Gap Between Science and Metaphysics:

The Primacy of Consciousness and Experience, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD

PART TWO

Neuroscience and Consciousness

CHAPTER FIVE ………………………………………………………………………. 134

The Elementary Mind, Mario Beauregard, PhD

CHAPTER SIX ………………………………………………………………………… 157

What do Near-Death and Meditation Experiences Tell Us

About the Primacy of Consciousness?, Marjorie Woollacott, PhD

CHAPTER SEVEN……………………………………………..…….190

A History of Postmaterialism With a Mild Warning

to Not Completely Dismiss Matter, Circa 2072, Julia Mossbridge, PhD

PART THREE

Psychology, Psychiatry, and Consciousness

CHAPTER EIGHT …………………………………………………………………… 201

Mind Rover: Exploration With Nonlocal Consciousness,

Stephan A. Schwartz

CHAPTER NINE ……………………………………………………………………… 242

Beyond Materialism and Madness:

A Neuropsychiatrist’s Perspective on Anomalous Experiences,

Diane Hennacy Powell, MD

CHAPTER TEN ………………………………………………………………………. 290

Postmaterial Medicine, Health, and Healing, Larry Dossey, MD

CHAPTER ELEVEN ………………………………………………………………… 331

Supersynchronicity and Primacy of Consciousness:

Bridging Science, Metaphysics and Spirituality, Gary E. Schwartz, PhD

CHAPTER TWELVE ……………………………………………………………….. 375

Scientism and Religion: Essential Science and Essential Spirituality,

Charles T. Tart, PhD

About the Authors ……………………………………………………………………… 394

Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………… 413

Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………… 414

Index ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 454