"Amid the flurry in science about genes, neurons, and neurotransmitters, another quiet revolution has been building for several decades. It involves a view of consciousness in which the mind is not confined to specific points in space or time, such as the brain, body, and the present. In The End of Materialism, legendary psychologist and psi researcher Charles Tart assembles the pieces of this new picture. He is eminently qualified to do so, as he helped invent the new image of consciousness through five decades of meticulous research. Tart's inspiring, majestic image of consciousness will prevail because of two compelling reasons: it is built on good science and it more fully accounts for who we humans are and how we behave." ─ Larry Dossey MD, author of The Power of Premonitions and Healing Words
"Prescient! This book represents the next step in the geotransformational processes that are altering modern concepts of borders, social structures, wealth, and governance. The precepts are at once omnipresent and historical, yet often elusive or rejected. Buoyed by a confluence of cataclysmic socioeconomic upheaval, a growing awareness of paradoxes not explained by traditional science, and an innate human longing for understanding, Charles Tart succinctly provides a blueprint for metamorphosis to an evidence-based spiritual awakening for Western cultures." ─ John B. Alexander, Ph.D., counselor at the Society for Scientific Exploration
"If you would like a clear, readable, and eminently fair-minded introduction to some of today's most contentious scientific topics, here is a book for you." ─ Roger Walsh, MD, Ph.D., professor at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Essential Spirituality
"A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection of facts and arguments, written in a good-natured, almost conversational style, makes it easy to loosen yourself from your preconceptions and enjoy seeing reality more clearly and completely. We have needed such a book for a long time." ─ James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys
"A truly seminal work based on lifetime of research and careful thought that not only challenges, but overturns the dominant scientific paradigm. Tart patiently explains the reasons for scientific resistance to parapsychology and spirituality, providing a comprehensive overview of the field and its implications for the nature of human existence. Compulsory reading for scientists and spiritual seekers alike." ─ David Lorimer, program director of The Scientific and Medical Network
"In The End of Materialism, Charles Tart has distilled a wealth of knowledge derived from his empirical study of human experiences that points to the presence of the spiritual in the world. Tart's characteristic humor and sense of fun shine through the text again and again, but always against the background of his wisdom, acquired over a lifetime of pondering the mystery of what it means to be human. This is the book for those who value an approach to the spiritual that is both scientific and richly personal in tone." ─ Adam Crabtree, author of Multiple Man and Trance Zero
"This beautifully written book is not only a masterful survey of parapsychology and psychical research, but also a thoughtful analysis of scientific inquiry and how it can be used to explore and explain the spiritual aspects of human nature. Combining laboratory evidence, case studies, and his own extensive experience as a scientist and spiritual seeker, Charles Tart skewers the postulates of a materialistic worldview that for too long has ignored vast areas of the human potential." ─ Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., coeditor, Varieties of Anomalous Experience
"This book is an outstanding contribution to the emerging dialogue between science and spirituality. Tart makes a persuasive argument for questioning common assumptions about the nature of reality, thoroughly grounded in solid research. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the farther reaches of human awareness. ─ Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Shadows of the Sacred
"The End of Materialism is brilliant. This is the book Tart has obviously been working up to all his life." ─ Colin Wilson
"An extraordinary accomplishment in "parapsychology by an enlightened experimental psychologist in the tradition of William James." ─ Eugene Taylor, Ph.D., executive faculty at Saybrook Graduate School, lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School