The end of materialism : how evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together

Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing. Science seems to tell us that we are all meaningless products of blind biological and chemical forces, leading meaningless lives that will eventually end in death. The truth is that unseen forces such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and other phenomena inextricably link us to the spiritual world, and while many skeptics and scientists deny the existence of these spiritual phenomena, the experiences of millions of people indicate that they do take place. In this book, copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), transpersonal psychologist Charles Tart presents over fifty years of scientific research conducted at the nation's leading universities that proves humans do have natural spiritual impulses and abilities. The End of Materialism presents an elegant argument for the union of science and spirituality in light of this new evidence, and explains why a truly rational viewpoint must address the reality of a spiritual world. Tart's work marks the beginning of an evidence-based spiritual awakening that will profoundly influence your understanding of the deeper forces at work in our lives. Spiritual seeking in a world that thinks it's all nonsense How do we know the spiritual is real? Ways of not knowing: distortions of science and intelligence Starting from the natural world: a psychic coup d'État? Extended aspects of mind: the big five Telepathy Clairvoyance, or remote viewing Precognition Psychokinesis Psychic healing: PK on biological systems? Postcognition and extended aspects of mind: the many maybes Out-of-the body experiences Near-death experiences Postmortem survival: after-death communications Mediumship: experimental approach to postmortem survival Reincarnation So what have we learned? If I believed the western creed Bringing it all back home: personal reflections Returning to mystical experience. The author reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that points toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.