Consciousness and the Physical World. To Iris and Rachel, my closest companions in this strangest of journeys. I would like to thank all those who have pushed, prodded and led me to construct the Person I am even though I will be shortly arguing that this very construction is ultimately an illusion. These people include the faculty members of Tabor Academy including my parents , Harvard University and the University of Michigan.
They provided me with the tools I needed to embark on this journey. Ultimately, however, I refused to enter the dark and narrow tunnel into which these last two institutions guided me. I am especially indebted to the editors of parapsychological journals who have guided my writing and given me a voice in parapsychology over the years, including K. I would also like to thank those who have helped me formulate my views, including J.
At least one will be surprised to find herself on this list. Sometimes you learn the most from those you ideas you initially find foreign and wrong-headed.
I would especially like to thank Robert Franklin and the rest of the staff at McFarland books, who have provided the main avenue through which serious books on parapsychology and radical investigations of the mind-body problem could be published. Without their efforts, these fields would be much the poorer, if they would even exist at all. Dreams and Awakenings. Mind and Matter Mind and the Quantum.. The Evidence for Psi: Spontaneous Phenomena. The Evidence for Psi: Experimental Studies.
The Implications of Psi Death and the Mind. The Nature of the Self The Self Writ Large. A Summing Up. This is a book about the self, the soul as it were to use two terms with all the wrong connotations. It draws conclusions about the self and its relations to the physical body and the physical world that the reader may find unorthodox and surprising. This book will explore many familiar areas in a hopefully unfamiliar way. These areas include the perennial mind-body problem, the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics, the anthropic principle, the evidence for Intelligent Design, and parapsychology the investigation of ostensible paranormal abilities such as ESP and psychokinesis.
