The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the worlds great cultural traditions. Most contemporary scientists and philosophers believe that reality is at bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than extremely complicated biological machines. On such views our everyday experiences of conscious decision-making, free will, and the self are illusory by-products of the grinding of our neural machinery. It follows that mind and personality are necessarily extinguished at death, and that there exists no deeper transpersonal or spiritual reality of any sort.Beyond Physicalism is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and humanities scholars who dispute these views. In their previous publication,Irreducible Mind, they argued that physicalism cannot accommodate various well-evidenced empirical phenomena including paranormal or psi phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical experiences. In this new theory-oriented companion volume they go further by attempting to understand how the world must be constituted in order that these rogue phenomena can occur. Drawing upon empirical science, metaphysical philosophy, and the mystical traditions, the authors work toward an improved big picture of the general character of reality, one which strongly overlaps territory traditionally occupied by the worlds institutional religions, and which attempts to reconcile science and spirituality by finding a middle path between the polarized fundamentalisms, religiousand scientific, that have dominated recent public discourse.Contributions by: Harald Atmanspacher, Loriliai Biernacki, Bernard Carr, Wolfgang Fach, Michael Grosso, Michael Murphy, David E. Presti, Gregory Shaw, Henry P. Stapp, Eric M. Weiss, and Ian Whicher

Edward F. Kelly is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, with interests in psychical research and functional neuroimaging. He is lead author of three previous books:Computer Recognition of English Word Senses;Altered States of Consciousness and Psi: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus; andIrreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century.Adam Crabtree is a psychotherapist in private practice and on the faculty of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, with interests in the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, as well as the history and practice of psychodynamic psychology. He is author of six books includingFrom Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Root of Psychological Healing;Multiple Man; andMemoir of a Trance Therapist.Paul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, philosophy and psychology of religion, science-religion relations, and consciousness studies. He is author of two previous books,The Living Mirror: Images of Reality in Science and Mysticism; andMystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations.

Introduction: Science and Spirituality at a Crossroads, Edward F. KellyPart I. The Essential Background: Rogue Phenomena in Search of a Theory1. Empirical Challenges to Theory Construction,Edward F. Kelly2. Mystical Experiences as Windows on Reality, Paul MarshallPart II. Old and New Worldviews that Accommodate the Targeted Phenomena3. The Transmission Model of Mind and Body: A Brief History,Michael Grosso4. A Psychobiological Perspective on Transmission Models,Edward F. Kelly and David E. Presti5. A Quantum Mechanical Theory of the Mind/Brain Connection,Henry P. Stapp6. MindMatter Correlations in Dual-Aspect Monism According to Pauli and Jung,Harald Atmanspacher and Wolfgang Fach7. Hyperspatial Models of Matter and Mind,Bernard Carr8. Platonic Siddhas: Supernatural Philosophers of Neoplatonism,Gregory Shaw9. Patanjalis Yoga Stras and the Siddhis,Edward F. Kelly and Ian Whicher10. Conscious Body: Mind and Body in Abhinavaguptas Tantra,Loriliai Biernacki11. Why We Are Conscious of So Little: A Neo-Leibnizian Approach,Paul Marshall12. Continuity of Mind: A Peircean Vision,Adam Crabtree13. Mind Beyond Body: Transphysical Process Metaphysics,Eric M. WeissPart III. Putting the Pieces Together14. Toward a Worldview Grounded in Science and Spirituality,Edward F. Kelly15. The Emergence of Evolutionary Panentheism,Michael Murphy