Science & Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake

Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Lives

A scientist argues that spiritual practices—meditation, prayer, mindfulness, ritual, contemplative reading, blessing, and other embodied techniques—can be investigated rigorously and used as methods for exploring consciousness, healing, and relationships with the natural world; the book offers practical instructions for a wide range of exercises, discusses evidence and experiments that connect subjective experience with measurable effects, and invites readers to treat spiritual disciplines as testable ways of expanding perception, cultivating compassion, and deepening a sense of meaning.

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