Stalking White Crows: How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

Stalking White Crows: How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

by Jack Crittenden
Stalking White Crows: How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

Stalking White Crows: How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

by Jack Crittenden

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Overview

How making up our minds and the makeup of our minds can help us live better and die better. We live in a climate where feelings trump reason and evidence. Lies are treated as “alternative facts.” At the same time, it seems our culture does not want us to treat altered or higher states of consciousness seriously. Focusing both on evidence and on such states of consciousness can reorient our attitudes. Jack Crittenden asks the reader to think about life after death, about the basis of morality and the essence of spirituality, about the meaning of happiness, about the path of dying, and about the proper role of work in our lives and how education connects to that role. What if our memories, thoughts, and whole personality lived on after we died? What if morality were based on reasons and evidence and not on God and sacred texts? What if happiness lies not in what we think, how we feel, and what we long for, but in living in the present and in the dying of the self itself? Experiences of and the evidence on altered and higher states of consciousness can lead us to better lives and better deaths.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789042184
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 01/01/2020
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 1,107,855
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jack Crittenden is Professor Emeritus of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ken Wilber 1

Acknowledgements 8

Introduction 11

What Readers Will Find in the Text 16

Chapter 1 Stalking the White Crow: When Exceptions Become the Rule 25

Cognitive Dissonance and TMT 32

William James's White Crow 35

Windbridge's Murder of White Crows 44

Chapter 2 Out of This World and Back Again: Veridical Evidence in NDEs and Reincarnation 51

Veridical Evidence and Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) 52

Reincarnation 71

Conclusion 76

Chapter 3 Morality Without God: Does Science Inform Our Moral Codes? 80

The Three Domains of Knowledge: 1 The Scientific-Empirical World 89

The Three Domains of Knowledge: 2 The Mental-Moral World 94

Chapter 4 Divine Knowing: Experience-Based Spirituality 108

The Three Domains of Knowledge: 3 The Spiritual World 115

Chapter 5 A Devil's Advocate for God: A Better Way to Read the Bible 126

Moral Development and the Bible 128

What Would Jesus Do? 156

Chapter 6 Happy Existentialists: When Every Moment Is Delicious 163

Stalking Nietzsche 167

Surprising Happiness 176

Surrounding Now 183

Drowning Nietzsche 192

Chapter 7 Death Trip: Better Dying Through Chemistry 208

Death Trip 221

Chapter 8 Robots Won't Be Hoarders: Preparing the Populace for a New Work Order 234

Work and Wages 239

Leisure Time 244

Integral Education 249

Endnotes 265

Bibliography 305

Author's Biography 313

Previous Books 314

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