SENSES OF REALITY IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION: A NEUROEPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 15 December 1982
- journal article
- Published by Open Library of the Humanities in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
- Vol. 17 (4) , 361-384
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1982.tb00491.x
Abstract
The phenomenology of certain mystical states is contrasted with the sense of “baseline” reality in an exploration of primary senses of reality. Nine theoretical and eight actual primary senses of reality are described. A neurophysiological model is presented to account for these states, and their possible adaptive significance is considered from an evolutionary perspective. Finally the state of absolute unitary being is contrasted with baseline reality, and their competing claims for primacy are evaluated in an epistemological context.Keywords
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