{"product_id":"being-biology-brenda-dunne-9781936033270","title":"Being \u0026 Biology: Is Consciousness the Life Force?","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs consciousness actually the Life Force . . .the animating principle which underlies and unifies mind, body, and spirit in all living things, and which philosopher Henri Bergson termed the \u003cem\u003e lan vital\u003c\/em\u003e? This book offers a compendium of empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives from a broad range of scholarly disciplines, which suggest that there is an unbroken, non-local, collective aspect of consciousness that links distant individuals and events--a kind of resonant connectedness that defies separation in space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the words of some of the contributors . . .\u003cbr\u003e \"Even for the most materialistic of scientists, consciousness has a privileged position as the matrix of human knowledge, the basis of science itself.\" --Rupert Sheldrake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The emerging view is that consciousness is fundamental in its own right and is not produced by the physical brain; . . . consciousness may be the primordial organizing force of the universe and of life itself.\" --Larry Dossey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Henri Bergson . . . posited a vital impulse he called \u003cem\u003e lan vital\u003c\/em\u003e that underlies the creation of all living things, a process of self-organization that he linked closely with consciousness.\" -- Brenda Dunne and Robert Jahn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Complementarity and Complexity, ubiquitous as they are, point to the need of a new kind of scientific endeavor that simultaneously brings forth and is brought from a deeper understanding of the workings of Consciousness.\" --Vasileios Basios\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Dunne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936033275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936033270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Icrl Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Brenda Dunne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074244014335,"sku":"9781936033270","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3102b039-2421-4a18-b79a-b9b6556caa2d.jpg?v=1685452628","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/being-biology-brenda-dunne-9781936033270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}