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Mind Before Matter: Vision of a New Science of Consciousness Paperback – September 21, 2007

by Trish Pfeiffer (Editor), John E. Mack (Editor), Paul Devereux (Editor)
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Materialism is the dominant worldview in the West today. But it is only one worldview, and it doesn't completely work, even, ironically, being gradually undermined by the science that gave rise to it. Containing the last unpublished writing of Pulitzer prize-winning author and scholar, the late John Mack, this anthology of essays from significant figures in the world of science and consciousness studies sketches the framework for a new model of realit―one based on the primacy of consciousness rather than of matter. It is a model we will need for survival on this planet. Mind Before Matter represents the first concerted salvo in a debate that could affect the worldview held by the modern, dominant culture.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Iff Books (September 21, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846940575
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846940576
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.57 x 0.85 x 8.61 inches
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    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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4.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate definition of who and what we really are
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This book is beautifully written to tell about the never ending quest to reveal the hidden secret of relationship between mind and matter,consciousness and awareness,soul and spirit.The ultimate knowledge about these relationships will undoubtedly and greatly contribute to understand who and what we really are and the purpose of our existence in this world.
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I just got this book & just started reading it & so far it's just "so-so". But, I'll give an update once I've finished it. I think some of the authors made up words because I cannot find them in either the dictionary or the thesaurus. So, some of the author's of the essay's were being unnecessarily unclear which no one would appreciate. But, I'm giving it a "wait & see" chance. I'm hoping that some of the essays are worth reading (there are several).
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Primacy of Consciousness
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Mind Before Matter: Visions of a new science of consciousness, Trish Pfeiffer and John E. Mack (eds.), O Books, 2007, 310 ff.

This volume is about the primacy of mind or consciousness. In the micro world, all is derived from the quantum field energy or zero point field energy; this is capable of cohering as subatomic particles, which form atoms, which form molecules, which make up the material world we recognize. At the macro level of living organisms, everything is derived from consciousness, eternal and infinite, which enables us to interact with the inanimate world and which exists in some sense before our physical birth and survives our mortal death.

The book is a collection of essays by 22 contributors who are eminent researchers into various aspects of this concept. There isn't room to list them all here and it may be invidious to pick out just a few, but probably the best known include the physicist Amit Goswami, Larry Dossey, Dean Radin, Ervin Laszlo, David Korten and Elisabet Sahtouris. The message of the book is to extend the idea of non-locality or entanglement (interaction at a distance between two physically unconnected particles) found in quantum physics to the universe as a whole. For the non-scientist it means that, in the macro world, you, the reader, and I and everyone else on the planet are interconnected at least in some subtle way, and that in turn we are all interacting with our environment in every moment of our earthly existence. What a breathtaking thought! What an incentive to make love, not war, to care for others on the planet, to dispel hatred born of the lust for wealth and power or fundamentalist religious sectarianism and replace it with universal beneficence!

Goswami's chapter focuses on transformation of the human psyche to give us intuitive access to health, beauty and justice through the cultivation of a `supramental intelligence'. Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch focuses on the limitations of a materialist, reductionist world-view - how it ignores a huge and important mass of human experience. Neurophysiologist Mary Schmitt examines what it is to have a `body', if all is mind. If consciousness pervades the universe, it must be a different kind of experience for a tree or a rock. Duane Elgin, described as a social visionary, examines the shift in the ethos of humankind since we were made aware of Earth as a living, interactive organism and sees a new perceptual paradigm emerging that directs us towards a living universe.

These are just the first four of the many chapters, contained in a section called Science, but they give a sense of the diversity of the exploration of this subject, directed towards the one concept of a Universal Mind. There follow other sections on Philosophy, Psi and Communion. There are numerous references throughout that enable the reader to further explore whatever aspect of this world-view they wish. Surely this is one of the most important books of the early twenty-first century, especially if it helps to expand the views of those academics obsessed with scientism and its materialist world-view.

 Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design by Amit Goswami
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Irvin Laszlo

Howard Jones is the author of The World as Spirit
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