Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives

Following his boundary-breaking neuroscience book The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, coauthored with Denyse O’Leary, Brain Wars makes a powerful and provocative case against the widely held view equating human beings to complex biological computers.

Like Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Beauregard believes that consciousness is more than simply a physical process that takes place in the brain. And here, he presents the evidence to prove it. Brain Wars will revolutionize the way we think about thinking forever.

Drawing on a wealth of scientific studies, Brain Wars EPB dismantles the materialist worldview by exploring:

• Neuroplasticity: Discover how mental training—from meditation to neurofeedback—can physically reshape your brain’s structure and function, proving that the mind you have is the one you build.
• Parapsychology: Examine the government’s own top-secret research into psi phenomena like remote viewing and telepathy, and what it reveals about the non-local nature of consciousness.
• Consciousness Beyond the Brain: Confront the ultimate question with verified accounts of out-of-body and near-death experiences, where lucid awareness persists even when the brain is clinically inactive.
• The Science of Mystical Experience: Go inside the brain scans of meditating nuns and others in states of mystical union to see the neural correlates of spiritual encounters and what they tell us about reality.
• Quantum Physics and the Mind: See how the strange world of quantum mechanics challenges the "computer made of meat" model and opens the door to a new science where consciousness is fundamental.