BookAlexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos, editors.
Contents:
Part I. Philosophy and History
1. Materialism's Eternal Return: Recurrent Patterns of Materialistic Explanations of Mental Phenomena / Saulo de Freitas Araujo
2. The Major Objections from Reductive Materialism Against Belief in the Existence of Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism / Robert Almeder
3. Psychic Phenomena and the Mind-Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition / Carlos S. Alvarado
Part II. Physics
4. No-Collapse Physics and Consciousness / Chris Clarke
5. The "Quantum Soul": A Scientific Hypothesis / Stuart Hameroff and Deepak Chopra
Part III. Functional Neuroimaging
6. The Neurobiological Correlates of Meditationand Mindfulness / Jesse Edwards, Julio Peres, Daniel A. Monti, and Andrew B. Newberg
7. Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional
Self-Regulation and Spiritual Experiences / Mario Beauregard
Part IV. Human Experiences as Promising lines of Investigation of Mind-Brain Relationship
8. Can Near Death Experiences Contribute to the Debate on Consciousness? / Peter Fenwick
9. Death, End of Life Experiences, and Their Theoretical and Clinical Implications for the Mind-Brain Relationship / Franklin Santana Santos and Peter Fenwick
10. Research on Mediumship and the Mind-Brain Relationship / Alexander Moreira-Almeida
11. Cases of the Reincarnation Type and the Mind-Brain Relationship / Erlendur Haraldsson
12. Conclusion / Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Franklin Santana Santos.