What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal, and the Post-Material Future

What Lies Beyond answers two questions: What's beyond the functional, mechanistic, and materialistic conceptions of life and consciousness? And why does that matter today? From an overview of paranormal and mystical experiences - in the context of the prevailing mechanistic, materialist view of mind and life - to exploring why the mystery of consciousness remains ‘hard' and the reasons for doubting that this mystery will be resolved in mechanistic terms, this book aims to encourage open enq...