In addition to its individual 2021 book awards, the Parapsychological Association recognizes the scholarly anthology trilogy edited by Edward F. Kelly and coauthors:
- Irreducible Mind: Toward a psychology for the 21st century
- Beyond Physicalism: Toward reconciliation of science and spirituality
- Consciousness Unbound: Liberating mind from the tyranny of materialism
These three books document the results of a series of scholarly seminars held at Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research. The trilogy deserves to be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding the challenges to materialistic and physicalistic assumptions about consciousness. This collection does a magnificent job in placing psi research in historical and philosophical context, and it reviews in detail empirical data from a wealth of sources. The result, over 1500 pages across the three books, demands a radical revisioning of what consciousness is and what it is capable of. Scholarly reviews of these trilogies are sprinkled with terms like bold, ambitious, pioneering, lucid, and stellar consciousness.
