Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience and u0026 philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of mind and u0026 consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism isn’t only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and u0026 in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and u0026 2ndary personality, near-death experiences and u0026 allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and u0026 mystical states of consciousness both spontaneous and u0026 drug-induced. The authors further show that these rogue phenomena are more readily accommodated by an alternative ‘transmission’ or ‘filter’ theory of mind brain relations advanced over a century ago by a largely forgotten genius, F.W.H. Myers, and u0026 developed further by his friend and u0026 colleague Wm James. This theory, moreover, ratifies the commonsense conception of humans as causally effective conscious agents, and u0026 is fully compatible with leading-edge physics and u0026 neuroscience. The book should command the attention of all open-minded persons concerned with the still-unsolved mysteries of the mind.

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