On the mystery of being : contemporary insights on the convergence of science and spirituality / edited by Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benazzo, Maurizio, editor.

Benazzo, Zaya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : New Harbinger Publications, [2019]

Summary:

With this dazzling collection of essays, the founders of the expanding Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference bring together a wide array of visionary spiritual leaders, psychologists, philosophers, scientists, teachers, authors, and healers to celebrate and explore what it means to be human.

Contents:

Part one: Voices of contemporary spirituality. Love and wonder / Adyashanti

Ordinary awakening / Gangaji

Closer to heaven, closer to the mud / Jeff Foster

The magic of shared awareness / Sally Kempton

The essence of the mind / Rupert Spira

Faces of the infinite in everyday life / Dorothy Hunt

The wonder of unknowing / Maura Bergonzi

Part two: The rebirth of metaphysics. Nondual vs. scientific views of reality / A.H. Almaas

Of consciousness and paradox / Jean Houston

Be blissful / Robert Thurman

The qualitative science of the heart / Kabir Helminski

The anomaly of consciousness / Peter Russell

Radiant intimacy of the heart / Cynthia Bourgeault

Part three: Science embraces consciousness. A brief history of consciousness / Stuart Hameroff

Reality is eye candy / Donald Hoffman

How to make a universe / Jude Currivan

Mind, matter, and life : a unified systemic view / Fritjof Stapp

Mind and wave function collapse / Henry Stapp

Idealism reloaded : the end of the perception-imagination duality / Bernardo Kastrup

Part four: The wonder of nature. Fundamental awareness: the universe twiddling its thumbs / Neil D. Theise

Rethinking the "dumb random universe" model of existence / Robert Lanza

The origin of life and consciousness : lifting and gifting our collective future / Bruce Damer

Resurrecting real magic / Dean Radin

The mycology of consciousness / Paul Stamats

The ecological initiation / Charles Eisenstein

Part five: The body as teacher. What are our bodies? / Chris Fields

The essence of yoga : exploring our true body / Ellen Emmet

The cerebrospinal fluid and I am / Maura Zappaterra

Lessons from the body / Larry Dossey

The body, the medical system, and modern society / Gabor Maté

Cancer as an awakening journey

Part 6: The heart of intimacy. Reflections on intimacy / Zhen Dao

Awakened relating : being awake to our infinite nature in finite human relationships / Lynn Marie Lumiere

Intimacy and keeping the spark alive / Michaela Boehm

The call of the earth goddess : re-membering a spirituality of wholeness / Chameli Ardagh

The ego cannot love / Eric Baret

Part seven: Exploring the shadows. Developmental trauma and the transformation of anger and rage / Julie Brown Yau

Healing trauma as a spiritual path : individual and collective dimensions / Peter A. Levine

Mongolian shamanic trance / Corine Sombrun

Dreaming the mystery of being aware / Stephen LaBerge

Fifteenth-century alchemy and twenty-first-century liberation / Pamela Wilson

Reconnecting to a child within / Edward Frenkel

Part eight: Doorways to heaven. The science and mystery of consciousness / Pim van Lommel

Grief / Unmani

Three basic freedoms / James Fadiman

The blessings of brokenness / Vera de Chalambert

The portal of a poem / Mirabai Starr

The human journey / Shakti Caterina Maggi

Afterword : on the relationship between science and liberation / Michael A. Singer.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781684033966

1684033969

OCLC:

1120689806