The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism
versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only
rationally-viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It
uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely,
presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by
skepticism, hard empirical evidence, and clear logical argumentation. It
lays out a coherent framework upon which one can interpret and make
sense of every natural phenomenon and physical law, as well as the
modalities of human consciousness, without materialist assumptions.
According to this framework, the brain is merely the image of a
self-localization process of mind, analogously to how a whirlpool is the
image of a self-localization process of water. The brain doesn't
generate mind in the same way that a whirlpool doesn't generate water.
It is the brain that is in mind, not mind in the brain. Physical death
is merely a de-clenching of awareness. The book closes with a series of
educated speculations regarding the afterlife, psychic phenomena, and
other related subjects.