Consciousness. Ken Wilber Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4 (1), February 1997, pp. 71-92 Copyright, 1997, Imprint Academic Abstract: An extensive data search among various types of developmental and evolutionary sequences yielded a `four quadrant' model of consciousness and its development (the four quadrants being intentional, behavioural, cultural, and social).
Northwest Amazonian Ayahuasca Shamanism and Near-Death Experience. Religions of the Twice-Born: Northwest Amazonian Ayahuasca Shamanism and Near-Death Experience Marcus Lumby In cooperation with the international body of medical doctors, psychologists and anthropologists presently conducting collaborative ethnomedical research, this project will afford a new anthropological explanatory perspective on near-death experience (NDE).
Field Reports for this research. Anthropology near death experince. Can Consciousness Exist Outside the Brain? - Madison Spirituality. The answer depends on who you ask.
According to mainstream scientific opinion, the answer is “no”: human consciousness is nothing more than an emergent byproduct of the physical brain and nervous system, and therefore cannot extend beyond the grey matter inside the head. This dominant view of the mind is known as materialistic because it ties consciousness completely to the material processes of the brain, and therefore makes consciousness utterly dependent on, and limited by, the functioning of the brain.
While this materialistic view has dominated cognitive research throughout the 20th century, there is a growing body of research that is beginning to lead some prominent researchers to answer, tentatively, “yes” to the above question. In their 2007 book, Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, professors Edward F. Kelly and Emily W.