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    Scientific Support for the Spiritual Dimension of Life
    Scientific Support for the Spiritual Dimension of Life
    Scientific Support for the Spiritual Dimension of Life
    Audiobook57 minutes

    Scientific Support for the Spiritual Dimension of Life

    Written by Charles Tart, Ph.D.

    Narrated by Justine Willis Toms

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    About this audiobook

    As a research scientist who is also interested in spirituality, Tart would like to see the scientific method applied to inform a deeper understanding of religious and spiritual phenomena. Here he explores the difference between scientism and science. He also shares his own personal psychic experience. Charles Tart, Ph.D. is the author of The Secret Science of the Soul: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Dimensions Foundation
    Release dateNov 2, 2017
    ISBN9781987116311
    Scientific Support for the Spiritual Dimension of Life

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      Charles Tart emphasises the importance of paying attention to the science not to the facts or negated themes that mainstream scientism rejects and he asks us not to take them at their word. He iterates that Psychical research is some of the most rigorous science that anybody is involved in.