Table of Contents
Preface B. Alan Wallace vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Part 1 What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
1 A Shotgun Wedding-The Marriage of Science and Christianity 3
2 When You Least Expect It-Materialism Undermined 27
3 When Believing Is Seeing-How Belief Influences Perception 53
4 The Mind behind the Eyepiece-Limits on Scientific Objectivity 71
5 Masquerade-Scientific Materialism Poses as Science 86
Part 2 Consciousness-Completing the Picture 109
6 Coming Full Circle-And Meeting the East 111
7 Deciding What's True-Objectivity and Empiricism in Contemplation 130
8 Illuminating the Black Boxes of Mind and Matter 148
9 Science and Contemplation-Probing the Mind Together 164
10 A Science of Consciousness? One Provocative Example from the Buddhist Tradition 180
Part 3 Tools and Technologies of a Buddhist Science of Contemplation 203
11 Shamatha-Meditative Quiescence 205
12 Vipashyana-Insight Meditation 213
13 The Great Perfection 219
14 "Complementary" Practices 222
Notes 227
Glossary 235
Bibliography 243
Index 247