Description "An essential read for any true seeker."--Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, author of Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe When Paul Marshall began to pay attention to his dreams, he could not have anticipated the transformative Experience that would follow.
Kelly and Adam Crabtree, he coedited Beyond Physicalism (2015)..
With Edward F.
He is author of The Living Mirror (1992) and Mystical Encounters with the Natural World (2005).
He studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and received his MA and PhD in Religious Studies from Lancaster University.
about the Author Paul Marshall is an independent researcher with interests in mysticism, religion, philosophy, science, and their interactions.
Addressing the mind-body problem, the origin of the world, evolution, reincarnation, suffering, and the nature of God, Marshall delivers What will surely prove an intellectual classic.
Bringing together mysticism, philosophy, biology, and even some physics, The Shape of the Soul offers a deeply integrated vision of the self and the universe.
We Ourselves are such beings, striving for fulfilment in a long evolutionary journey of soul-making.
Drawing inspiration from the philosophers Plotinus and Leibniz, Marshall takes mind to be more fundamental than matter and views the basic units of nature as perceptual beings.
In The Shape of the Soul, Marshall--now a mysticism scholar--draws on personal experiences, along with a wealth of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas, to explore this deeper self, sometimes experienced in Mystical and near-death states as spherical in form.
A tremendous expansion of consciousness exposed the insignificance of his everyday self but also revealed unsuspected depths of mind and hinted at a deeper self that holds the universe within.
Description "An essential read for any true seeker."--Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, author of Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe When Paul Marshall began to pay attention to his dreams, he could not have anticipated the transformative Experience that would follow
