Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science

It is imperative that our thinking about perception and experience be outside the box—in this case, outside the Western commitment to a materialistic, mechanistic metaphysics. In these ten chapters, leading parapsychologists and philosophers explore experiences that challenge the modern scientific worldview—a worldview that has brought us to a state of planetary crisis."In recent years there has been a plethora of books and articles on this topic. What is new about this volume is its link to exceptional human experiences, especially those anomalies that cannot be easily reconciled with mainstream science’s understanding of time, space, and energy. The extraordinary suggestion of the chapter authors is that the concepts and data from transpersonal psychology and parapsychology, long rejected, ridiculed, or ignored by mainstream science, are the very resources needed to reorient this endangered world and its tattered societies." ~ Stanley Kripper, From the Foreword

John Buchanan earned his M.A. in humanistic psychology at West Georgia College and his PhD from Emory's Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. His focus in writings and conferences continues to be the intersection of process thought and transpersonal psychology.