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Rational Mysticism : Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality Hardcover - 2003
by John Horgan
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- Title Rational Mysticism : Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
- Author John Horgan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618060278I4N01
- ISBN 9780618060276 / 0618060278
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.46 x 6.32 x 1.01 in (24.03 x 16.05 x 2.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mysticism, Religion and science
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032281
- Dewey Decimal Code 291.175
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Summary
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanicsand meaningof mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more to narrow the gap between reason and mystical phenomena. As both a seeker and an award-winning journalist, Horgan consulted a wide range of experts, including theologian Huston Smith, spiritual heir to Joseph Campbell; Andrew Newberg, the scientist whose quest for the God module” was the focus of a Newsweek cover story; Ken Wilber, prominent transpersonal psychologist; Alexander Shulgin, legendary psychedelic drug chemist; and Susan Blackmore, Oxford-educated psychologist, parapsychology debunker, and Zen practitioner. Horgan explores the striking similarities between mystical technologies” like sensory deprivation, prayer, fasting, trance, dancing, meditation, and drug trips. He participates in experiments that seek the neurological underpinnings of mystical experiences. And, finally, he recounts his own search for enlightenment adventurous, poignant, and sometimes surprisingly comic. Horgan’s conclusions resonate with the controversial climax of The End of Science, because, as he argues, the most enlightened mystics and the most enlightened scientists end up in the same place confronting the imponderable depth of the universe.
First line
IN APRIL 1999, I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to attend a meeting named, misleadingly,"Science and Consciousness."