What Lies Beyond -Matt Colborn

What's beyond the functional, mechanistic, and materialistic conceptions of life and consciousness? And why does that matter today?

This is for the seekers who question the dominant mechanistic, materialist paradigm and those who feel lost, alienated or disturbed by today’s aggressive scientism and technology worship.

Colborn offers alternative, more open approaches that reject neither science nor technology but rather insist upon a more humanistic outlook that’s sensitive to the vast but often hidden range of human experience. Importantly, he calls for a reassessment of paranormal and mystical experiences, underlining that the assumptions underpinning much of modern science could be at odds with what is required to navigate the upcoming global age we are entering.

From an overview of paranormal and mystical experiences - in the context of the prevailing mechanistic, materialist view of mind and life - to exploring why the mystery of consciousness remains ‘hard’ and the reasons for doubting that this mystery will be resolved in mechanistic terms, this book aims to encourage open enquiry.

''A timely book that deserves to be widely read.'' --Brian L Lancaster, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, Alef Trust founding director and author of Approaches to Consciousness