Beyond Grinberg

If you've read "The Jacobo Grinberg Enigma," you know the story. This book asks a different question: of everything Grinberg - and the traditions this book investigates - claimed, what can actually be demonstrated?

"Beyond Grinberg" follows the same neuroscientist's most controversial experiment into the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta, Patañjali's classical Yoga, Buddhism and Zen, the secularization of mindfulness, and the decades-long dialogues between philosopher J. Krishnamurti and physicist David Bohm - always asking the same thing: what, among all these claims, holds up?

Every chapter applies to the contemplative East the same rigor one would apply to any extraordinary scientific claim: every relevant statement is classified by its level of evidence, from the most solid to the most speculative. Nothing is accepted just because it's ancient, and nothing is dismissed just because it's strange.

Volume I of a planned trilogy, "The Observer" gathers a prologue and eleven chapters - from Grinberg to Krishnamurti - laying the groundwork for the volumes ahead, which carry the same question into contemporary neuroscience and quantum physics.

For anyone who has ever wondered where science ends and belief begins - and wants an honest answer, not a comfortable one.