Editorial

Letter from Founder and Editor in Chief

Andrew Cohen

Finding Spirit in the Fabric of Space and Time

Interview with Stuart Hameroff

The inside story of how a world-renowned consciousness researcher teamed up with an Oxford physicist to uncover what may be traces of the sacred buried deep within the quantum-mechanical latticework of the brain.

Plus: Science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer’s thoughts
on the nature of God.

by Tom Huston with Joel Pitney

Jean Gebser: Cartographer of Consciousness

Take a ride through the adventurous life of a German poet, linguist, mystic, and philosopher who hung out with Picasso and Jung, fought in the Spanish Civil War, escaped the Nazis twice, and through a lightning-like insight in 1931, uncovered the next stage in human consciousness.

by Gary Lachman

Field Work at the Frontier of Consciousness

Interview with Marilyn Schlitz

From the cutting edge of psychic research, the president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences explains how she and her team of “renegade scientists” are using the straight-edged tools of science to capture the mysterious connection between consciousness and the material world.

by Elizabeth Debold

Intuitions of the Beyond

Interview with Michael Grosso

Is there life after death? And can science prove it? Driven by these questions for decades, “survival” researcher Michael Grosso may be the world’s leading expert on the surprising data—and fascinating implications—of the scientific search for the afterlife.

by Carter Phipps

Irreducible Mind

Interview with Henry Stapp

In this passionate attack against the prevailing assumptions of scientific materialism that still govern our age, a respected physicist explains how quantum mechanics revealed eighty years ago that the mind is more than the brain, and the rest of the world has yet to catch up.

by Ross Robertson

THE GURU AND THE PANDIT

Vertical vs. Horizontal Development

Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber

What does it really mean to consciously evolve? In their twenty-fifth dialogue, spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and integral philosopher Ken Wilber discuss the dynamics of transformation, the mystery of creative emergence, and how best to avoid wasting one’s life.