TY - BOOK AU - Tart,Charles T. TI - The end of materialism: how evidence of the paranormal is bringing science and spirit together SN - 9781572246454 U1 - 133 PY - 2009/// CY - Oakland, Calif. PB - Noetic Books, Institute of Noetic Sciences, New Harbinger Publications, Inc. KW - Parapsychology KW - Spiritualism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-386) and index; Spiritual seeking in a world that thinks it's all nonsense -- How do we know the spiritual is real? -- Ways of not knowing: distortions of science and intelligence -- Starting from the natural world: a psychic coup d'État? -- Extended aspects of mind: the big five -- Telepathy -- Clairvoyance, or remote viewing -- Precognition -- Psychokinesis -- Psychic healing: PK on biological systems? -- Postcognition and extended aspects of mind: the many maybes -- Out-of-the body experiences -- Near-death experiences -- Postmortem survival: after-death communications -- Mediumship: experimental approach to postmortem survival -- Reincarnation -- So what have we learned? -- If I believed the western creed -- Bringing it all back home: personal reflections -- Returning to mystical experience N2 - The author reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that points toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing ER -