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Expert Meeting
Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
July, 2nd – 4th, 2008, Freiburg, Schloss Reinach in Munzingen, Germany
Program and presentations
Here you can download the program and the list of participants.
In the meantime, Bob Forman wrote a report about the meeting. It will be published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 8, 2008, pp. 110-115.
The presentations given at this meeting can be downloaded underneath. Harald Walach comes first with the introductory talk, followed by most of the other speakers in alphabetical order.
Harald Walach: Setting the Scene – Spirituality and the Mind-Body Problem – Problems and Questions
Henk Barendregt: Buddhist Inspired Models of Consciousness
Mario Beauregard: Neuroscience and Spirituality – Basic Issues, Challenges, Findings
Howard Hall: Sufi Rituals of Bodily Self-Harm, Consciousness and Faith
Les Lancaster: Re-Entry Loops, Consciousness and the Kabbalah
Pim van Lommel: Near Death Experiences – Empirical Findings and Consequences
Antoine Lutz: The Relation between Mental Training/ Inner Transformation in the Contemplative Traditions and Neuroplasticity
Thomas Metzinger: Science and Spirituality: No Self, no Soul, no Faith
Ernst Poeppel: Consciousness as Enslavement: An Evolutionary Perspective
Matt Rossano: Did Meditating Make us Human?
Jonathan Schooler: A Cognitive-Neuroscience View of Consciousness and Spirituality
