Harald Walach, Stefan Schmidt, and Wayne B. Jonas: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality New York: Springer, 298 pp

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According to the foreword, “Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality was born out of a vision to build bridges and get different disciplines to talk to each other” (p. v). The individual contributors to this book come from a variety of disciplines and include a set of international scholars. The chapters for the book were originally presented as papers at an invitational meeting held in Freiburg, Germany in 2008. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this book has relevance for psychologists, philosophers, neuroscientists, theologians, and religious scholars and perhaps even theoretical physicists. In fact, without some basic understanding of these disciplines, the reader may become a bit bogged down as some of the contributors employ jargon that is specific to a discipline. …