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- Science as a Spiritual Practice is in three parts. In the first
part the author argues that there are problems with materialism and that
self-transformation could lead individual scientists to more comprehensive
ways of understanding reality. In the second part he takes on the contentious
notion of inner knowledge and shows how access to inner knowledge could
be possible in some altered states of consciousness. The third part is
an analysis of the philosophy of Franklin Wolff, who claimed that the transcendent
states of consciousness which occurred for him resulted from his mathematical
approach to spirituality.
Imants Barušs holds a MSc in mathematics, and a PhD in psychology with specialization in consciousness. He is a tenured full professor at King's University College at The University of Western Ontario, where he has taught undergraduate courses in consciousness, altered states of consciousness, humanistic psychology, and the psychology of religion for 20 years.