Embracing mind: the common ground of science and spirituality

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. What's Wrong with This Picture?

1. A Shotgun Wedding-The Marriage of Science and Christianity

2. When You Least Expect It-Materialism Undermined

3. When Believing Is Seeing-How Belief Influences Perception

4. The Mind behind the Eyepiece-Limits on Scientific Objectivity

5. Masquerade-Scientific Materialism Poses as Science

Part 2. Consciousness-Completing the Picture

6. Coming Full Circle-And Meeting the East

7. Deciding What's True-Objectivity and Empiricism in Contemplation

8. Illuminating the Black Boxes of Mind and Matter

9. Science and Contemplation-Probing the Mind Together

10. A Science of Consciousness? One Provocative Example from the Buddhist Tradition

Part 3. Tools and Technologies of a Buddhist Science of Contemplation

11. Shamatha-Meditative Quiescence

12. Vipashyana-Insight Meditation

13. The Great Perfection

14. "Complementary" Practices

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index