David E. Presti is a teaching professor of neurobiology, psychology, and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley. He also teaches neuroscience to Buddhist monks and nuns in India and Bhuta, and is also the author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016)
Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal is an anthology that contributes to ongoing dialogues between science and Buddhism. It discusses experiences commonly accepted within Buddhist traditions but not yet widely accepted in science. This includes the relationship between mind and matter, NDEs, past-life memories, mediumship, apparitions, and deathbed experiences, the siddhis (yogic powers), and new (to mainstream science) ways of conceiving of extended minds. This book is a fine introduction to the overlaps between Buddhist concepts about mind, matter, and reality, and to leading-edge science that informs these topics, as represented by parapsychology.Â
