The Self-Aware Universe

In this stimulating and timely book, Amit Goswami, PhD, shatters the widely popular belief held by Western science that matter is the primary "stuff" of creation and proposes instead that consciousness is the true foundation of all we know and perceive.

His explanation of quantum physics for lay readers, called "a model of clarity" by Kirkus Reviews, sets the stage for a voyage of discovery through the common ground of science and religion, the entwined nature of mind and body, and our interconnectedness with all of creation.

Illustrations
Preface
Foreword
Part I: The Integration of Science and Spirituality
Introduction to Part I
1. The Chasm and the Bridge
2. The Old Physics and Its Philosophical Legacy
3. Quantum Physics and the Demise of Material Realism
4. The Philosophy of Monastic Idealism
Part 2: Idealism and the Resolution of the Quantum Paradoxes
Introduction to Part 2
5. Objects in Two Places at Once and Effects That Precede Their Causes
6. The Nine Lives of Schrö dinger's Cat
7. I Choose, Therefore I Am
8. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox
9. The Reconciliation of Realism and Idealism
Part 3: Self-Reference: How the One Becomes Many
Introduction to Part 3
10. Exploring the Mind-Body Problem
11. In Search of the Quantum Mind
12. Paradoxes and Tangled Hierarchies
13. The "I" of Consciousness
14. Integrating the Psychologies
Part 4: The Re-enchantment of the Person
Introduction to Part 4
15. War and Peace
16. Outer and Inner Creativity
17. The Awakening of Buddhi
18. An Idealist Theory of Ethics
19. Spiritual Joy


Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index