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This book argues that human beings must replace ontological
misinformation with a clear and accurate view of the nature of
reality in order to overcome conflict, violence, and suffering, and
in order to survive as a species. The advanced extraterrestrial
intelligence (ETI) in our midst now is trying to help humankind see
its way forward to a correct ontology by means of pedagogical
displays of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). This book
considers UAP in the context of geopolitics, physics, mathematics,
and philosophy to demonstrates the richness of the creative
acculturation unfolding now between humankind and ETI. This book
also asks what kind of ethics an advanced, intelligent
extraterrestrial species might possess, and how human beings can
transform their own understanding of ethics to best participate
with ETI. Applying the ontological interpretation of the quantum
theory articulated by physicist and philosopher David J. Bohm to
various aspects of ETI/UAP, the book also considers how ETI is
clearly warning humankind about the dangers of nuclear weapons and
other nuclear technologies. Practically, the book argues that we
urgently must abolish nuclear weapons and other nuclear
technologies so that Homo sapiens sapiens can survive and flourish.
This book throws down a challenge to the field of religious
studies. It offers new and exciting approaches for our
understanding of religious experience, drawn from the methods of
cognitive science, neuropsychology, developmental psychology,
philosophy of mind, anthropology, and the many other fields that
have joined together to investigate the phenomenon of
consciousness.
Religion in Mind is a 2001 text which summarizes and extends the
advances in the cognitive study of religion throughout the 1990s.
It uses empirical research from psychology and anthropology to
illuminate various components of religious belief, ritual, and
experience. The book examines cognitive dimensions of religion
within a naturalistic view of culture, while respecting the
phenomenology of religion and drawing together teachers of
religion, psychologists of religion, and cognitive scientists.
Expert contributors focus on phenomena such as belief-fixation and
transmission; attributions of agency; anthropomorphizing;
counterintuitive religious representations; the well-formedness of
religious rituals; links between religious representations and
emotions; and the development of god concepts. The work encourages
greater interdisciplinary linkages between scholars from different
fields and will be of interest to researchers in anthropology,
psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science.
It also will interest more general readers in religion and science.
Religion in Mind summarizes and extends the past decade's advances in the cognitive study of religion. Its aim is to use empirical research from psychology and anthropology to understand different components of religious belief, ritual and experience. The book draws together teachers of religion, psychologists of religion and cognitive scientists and encourages greater interdisciplinary linkages among scholars from different fields. It will be of interest to researchers in anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, and cognitive science and also to the general reader interested in religion and science.
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