Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives: The Scientific Battle Over ... that Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives - Hardcover

Mario Beauregard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062071564 ISBN 13: 9780062071569

Publisher: Bravo Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Is the brain "a computer made of meat," and human consciousness a simple product of electrical impulses? The idea that matter is all that exists has dominated science since the late nineteenth century and led to the long-standing scientific and popular understanding of the brain as simply a collection of neurons and neural activity. But for acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, Ph.D., along with a rising number of colleagues and others, this materialist-based view clashes with what we feel and experience every day. In Brain Wars, Dr. Beauregard delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the role of the brain and mind. Filled with engaging, surprising, and cutting-edge scientific accounts, this eye-opening book makes the increasingly indisputable case that our immaterial minds influence what happens in our brains, our bodies, and even beyond our bodies. Examining the hard science behind "unexplained" phenomena such as the placebo effect, self-healing, brain control, meditation, hypnosis, and near-death and mystical experiences, Dr. Beauregard reveals the mind's capabilities and explores new answers to age-old mind-body questions. Radically shifting our comprehension of the role of consciousness in the universe, Brain Wars forces us to consider the immense untapped power of the mind and explore the profound social, moral, and spiritual implications that this new understanding holds for our future.

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Brain Wars Filled with the latest scientific research on the mind's abilities, this is a paradigm-shifting work in the understanding of the mind-body debate, revealing new evidence that the mind and consciousness are transmitted through the brain, but not generated by the brain. Full description

Review:

Brain Wars explains why the prevailing brain-mind paradigm is falling apart and why we are increasingly being forced to reconsider the nature of consciousness. The consequences of this paradigm shift are profound, and Mario Beauregard does a magnificent job in explaining why. --Dean Radin PhDCo-Editor-in-Chief, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing Senior Scientist Institute of Noetic Sciences

Mario Beauregard shows convincingly that the materialistic philosophy of the 19th century is an impoverished framework incompatible with contemporary science, from physics to psychology. The concepts he develops in Brain Wars are required reading for scientific literacy in today s world. --Bruce Greyson, M.D. Research psychiatrist, University of Virginia. Co-author of Irreducible Mind

In this ground-breaking work, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard cites a range of scientific studies challenging many widely held materialistic assumptions about the relation between the mind and brain. --B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D.President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Bravo Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062071564
• ISBN 13: 9780062071569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304