Radical Transformation: The Unexpected Interplay of Consciousness and Reality

by Imants Baruss

Overview

In Radical Transformation, Imants Barušs leads the reader out of the receding materialist paradigm into an emerging post-materialist landscape in which new questions present themselves. If consciousness has nonlocal properties, then how are boundaries between events established? If consciousness directly modulates physical manifestation, then what is the scope of such modulation? If consciousness continues after physical death, then how much interference is there from non-physical entities? As we face the threat of extinction on this planet, is there anything in recent consciousness research that can help us? Are there effective means of self-transformation that can be used to enter persistent transcendent states of consciousness that could resolve existential and global crises? The author leads the reader through discussions of meaning, radical transformation, and subtle activism, revealing the unexpected interplay of consciousness and reality along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788360418
Publisher:	Imprint Academic (Ips)
Publication date:	02/01/2021
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Imants Barušs is a professor of psychology at King's UniversityCollege at Western Universityin Canada where he lectures on consciousness and altered states of consciousness. He is the author of six previous books including Alterations of Consciousness and Transcendent Mind (with Julia Mossbridge).

What People are Saying About This

David Lorimer

"Radical Transformation is a bold empirical study arguing that the findings underpinning a new post-materialist understanding of consciousness can help us address systemic global crises beyond the limitations of our current self-understanding, patterns of thought and tendencies towards procrastination. As the author argues, widespread self-development is a critical component along with a lived realisation of our deep interconnectedness. Perhaps the crisis we are living through will help catalyse the required transformation — this pioneering study helps point the way."

Professor Charles Tart

"This is the kind of creative and well-informed thinking we need to move ahead toward a more comprehensive understanding of the mind!"

MD

"After reading Radical Transformation you will never think of human consciousness in the same way again. Imants Barušs reveals reasons why consciousness cannot be produced by the brain, and why it is much more glorious than we have taken it to be. This book is science at its best: fearless, futuristic, and rock-solid."

Editorial Reviews

"Barušs is such a hero – an accredited academician who is striking at the very roots of precisely how orthodox science should tackle provocative anomalies… This deceptively modest book may be one of the most important steps on the way to a better understanding of the many genuine mysteries of the human mind."

Fortean Times - Bob Rickard