Transpersonal aspects in neurobiology

  • Harald Piron
Keywords: consciousness and brain, presence and neuronal integration, resonance and mirror, plasticity of brain, free will, neurobiology and psychotherapy

Abstract

Limits and potentials of neuroscience in order to explore the human consciousness become discussed. Logical failures and confusions arising from separating the mind from the brain and from mixing different levels of reality. Neuroscientists with some transpersonal understanding do not reduce the human counsciousness to biological factors. They acknowledge correlations between biological, psychological and social processes as parts of the whole and form a holistic concept of consciousness. The potential of consciousness in its qualities of self trancendence, presence, resonance, integration and transformation can be supported by actual data in neuroscience.

Author Biography

Harald Piron

Dr. Dipl.-Psych., *1967, psychological psychotherapist (VT), completed training in behavioral therapy, RET and psychosynthesis, meditates since 1985, therapies since 1993, doctorate in meditation research, gives further training and seminars on transpersonal behavioral therapy (TVT) and psychosynthesis. He is chairman of the Society for Meditation and Meditation Research (SMMR).

Published
2009-08-03