title: [Is the brain the creator of psychic phenomena or is a paradigm shift inevitable?].
abstract: Every day new scientific information is appearing that cannot be explained using the classical Newtonian model and is calling for the emergence of a new paradigm that would include the explanation of such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, presentiment, precognition, out of the body experiences, psychic healing, after-death communication, near-death experiences and reincarnation. The materialist paradigm which considers the brain as the sole cause of consciousness and psychic phenomena has been challenged by a new paradigm that seems to demonstrate that there is not a cause-effect relationship between brain activity and psychic phenomena but only a correlation between them, since these phenomena can be experienced without the body and appear to have an extra-cerebral origin (cosmic field, cosmic consciousness?). Of course, the brain is intensely involved in the manifestation of consciousness in our daily life but this is not equivalent to affirm that brain creates consciousness. Recent findings force us to consider a non-physical, spiritual and transpersonal aspect of reality.
authors: Ernesto
authors: E
authors: Bonilla
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D015984:Causality; D003243:Consciousness; D003643:Death; D006801:Humans; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010268:Parapsychology / Q000639:trends*; D010684:Philosophy; D011603:Psychophysiology; D013850:Thinking