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Highlights
- 2023 Winner!
- Author(s): Paul J Mills
- 294 Pages
- Literary Collections, Interviews
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About the Book
The spiritual is the final frontier for science.This book shares interviews with some of the world's foremost scientists who recount their own transpersonal and mystical experiences and how they and their work were transformed.
Book Synopsis
2023 Winner! Gold Nautilus Book Award!
Spirituality is the Final Frontier for Science
Contrary to popular belief, not all scientists are materialists fervently discounting the spiritual. Science, Being, & Becoming is about the spiritual lives of scientists, their actual transpersonal, metaphysical and mystical experiences. The book's material is derived from intimate interviews with over 30 scientists as they describe the circumstances under which they had the experiences and how those experiences changed their consciousness, transformed their belief systems about the nature of the world, and changed their scientific work.
This groundbreaking book makes it evident that the long-standing divide between science and spirituality has not served us well and in fact continues to have significant adverse consequences for us all. Fortunately, many scientists no longer recognize that divide and are helping science to now fulfill its intended promise to discover and understand all of life, including our deep spiritual nature.
The book is an invitation to the public, to citizen scientists, and to professional scientists to reject the materialistic worldview of modern science, which despite the many technological advances it has provided us all, has supported the worldview of duality and separation amongst peoples and with the earth.
The book also contains special bonus Spotlight sections written by Drs. Eben Alexander, Robert Atkinson, Dusana Dorjee, and Kyriacos C. Markides.
In addition, in the opening Special Commentary, Ken Wilber shares his integral wisdom about the coevolutionary development of our spiritual and human natures.
In the Foreword, Dr. Deepak Chopra sets the stage for the book with his discussion of science, scientists, materialism and the spiritual.
The book describes a new path to embrace, one with the perspective of the unity of our existence and to embrace the path of consciousness development. The book's vision is that science will eventually fulfill its promise and become an instrument to help support the spiritual awakening of humanity and bring to fruition the vision a more harmonious life here on the earth.
The stories in this book help us understand that the spiritual is the final frontier for science.
Review Quotes
Science, Being, & Becoming reminds us that some scientists, perhaps many, have had the same kinds of profound psychic, mystical, and spiritual experiences that people have reported throughout history... Books like this are dissolving old constraints, and in the process whole new realms of reality are poised to emerge. A delightful and inspiring book.
- Dean Radin Ph.D., Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author, Real Magic
Professor Mills is a shining example of a rigorous scientist and classic mystic, whose mind and heart are dedicated to the pursuit of both objective knowledge and subjective wisdom. This book tells the stories of scientists and scholars who walk the line between science and spirit, weaving them together into a beautiful tapestry that should validate the personal experiences of many more.
- Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, University of California, San Diego
In this much needed work, Professor Paul Mills provides an intimate and personal view into the spiritual lives of scientists. In the midst of these rapidly changing times, their stories of inspiration, dedication, and struggle can encourage and steady each of us along the path.
- Thomas Liu, Ph.D., Center for Functional MRI, University of California, San Diego
I found this book riveting. I couldn't put it down until I had devoured the whole thing. This book is a rare and engaging account of the spiritual transformation of the scientific mind, writ large on the one hand but also very much from the inside as well, from the "horse's mouths" of the author and his interviewees and commentators as well. The many individual transformations accounted here span a vast variety and tremendous depth of the spiritual-nonrational realms while maintaining scientific solidity. Together, these point the way to a tremendously expanded and bright potential future for science as it begins to embrace spirituality and consciousness. As Deepak Chopra says in his introduction, "rationality is not the enemy of awakening."
- Thomas Brophy, Ph.D., President, California Institute for Human Science, Encinitas, CA
In the stories of people's lives recorded in this book, virtually all combinations and permutations of human spiritual experience and aspiration are represented. The reader will very likely find many aspects of themselves described in some way in Professor Mills' exploration of the spiritual lives of scientists. In my case, it was very helpful to see how others experienced transcendent phenomena and spiritual teachings of all kinds. The way some scientists quoted in this book understood certain teachings, for example the Advita Vedanta teachings from Paramahansa Yogananda, helped me understand that philosophy and teaching better and has enriched my own spiritual journey. Ultimately Professor Mills' book is a spiritual guide, a road map depicting many pathways to self-realization (and becoming anchored in the divine) which will inspire one's further spiritual exploration in directions one may not have thought of or encountered yet. This is a page turner. Experience the joy of seeing one's own experiences, shared in some way by others, become even more illuminating and meaningful in the moments of reading a given section and reflecting.
Hollis H. King, D.O., Ph.D., Center for Integrative Medicine, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA