Consciousness Unbound

In this episode I review two highly significant new volumes on a post-materialist science of consciousness - Is Conscious Primary? sponsored by the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences (www.aapsglobal.net) and Consciousness Unbound, emanating from the Esalen Institute and the Department of Perceptual Sciences at the University of Virginia. Both books provide persuasive evidence and cogent arguments (and the first some accounts of personal experiences) to challenge the dominant scientific materialism that cannot adequately account for such evidence, choosing instead to ignore or dismiss it - without realising its congruence with quantum physics.