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Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
ISBN: 9780231548397
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Parapsychology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Religion and science; Buddhism;

Neuroscientist David E. Presti, with the assistance of other researchers, explores how evidence for anomalous phenomena--such as near-death experiences, apparent memories of past lives, apparitions, and other so-called psi or paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition--can influence the Buddhism-science conversation.

David E. Presti (PhD, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, California Institute of Technology; PhD, Clinical Psychology, Oregon) is Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at the University of California at Berkeley; he also teaches neuroscience in India and Bhutan as part of the Mind & Life initiative Science for Monks, and he developed the Certificate Program in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research at the California Institute of Integral Research. He is the author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience (Norton, 2016) as well as a number of scientific papers and contributions to edited volumes.David E. Presti is a teaching professor of neurobiology, psychology, and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches neuroscience to Buddhist monks and nuns in India and Bhutan. He is the author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016).