Science as a Spiritual Practice is in three parts. In the first part the author argues that there are problems with materialism and that self-transformation could lead individual scientists to more comprehensive ways of understanding reality. In the second part he takes on the contentious notion of inner knowledge and shows how access to inner knowledge could be possible in some altered states of consciousness. The third part is an analysis of the philosophy of Franklin Wolff, who claimed that the transcendent states of consciousness which occurred for him resulted from his mathematical approach to spirituality.

Imants Barušs is a professor of psychology at King's University College at Western University in Canada where he lectures on consciousness and altered states of consciousness. He is the author of six previous books including Alterations of Consciousness and Transcendent Mind (with Julia Mossbridge).

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"There is a mature outlook to the book, an awareness that spirituality can make your life more difficult... Altogether, it is rather a focused work, with clear parameters... Science as a Spiritual Practice presents a thought-provoking discussion of the possible rewards and costs of a particular kind of spiritual journey."

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