Abstract
Physicalism as a worldview and framework for a mechanistic
and materialist science seems not to have integrated the tectonic shift
created by the rise of quantum physics with its notion of the personal
equation of the observer. Psyche had been deliberately removed from a
post-Enlightenment science. This paper explores a post-materialist
science within a dual-aspect monist conception of nature in which both
the mental and the physical exist in a relationship of complementarity
so that they mutually exclude one another and yet are together
necessary to explain Reality while being irreducible to one another.
Both mind and matter emerge from an underlying holistic domain
known as the unus mundus in the Jung-Pauli formulation or as the
analogous implicate order in the framing of physicist David Bohm and
his colleagues. Kuhnian anomalies such as the role of reflective
consciousness in evolution, and phenomena including so-called “near
death experiences” (NDEs), are considered from the perspective of
dual-aspect monism in conjunction with an emerging evolutionary panentheism.