Neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality English Proceedings

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Abstract Science and spirituality are often seen as two incompatible approaches to
reality. This chapter is designed to start bridging this gap. We define science as a
joint effort of humans to understand the world and to prevent error, using our senses
and invented instruments enhancing our senses. This we call experience of the world
in its material aspects. Spirituality can be understood as an effort to understand the
general principles or structure of the world through inner experience. There are a
few requirements for such an epistemological framework to function. One is that
consciousness is understood as complementary to its material substrate, the brain, and
hence as capable in principle of having its own access to reality. The other requirement is that dogmatism, both on part of science and on part of religions is put aside and
spirituality is understood as a hitherto neglected area of investigation that needs to
become part of science as a method of inner experienc

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Neuroscience, consciousness and spirituality English Proceedings