Today's world peace requires the development of an arms industry estimated to involve trillions of dollars and euros, elaborated in ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030 project. Are humans simply an aggressive and unreliable species that needs weapons to maintain peace? Is there some other way to achieve peace?

Have we ever learned to experience peace within our own mind? Or have we merely adapted to the mind-sabotaging habit of thinking according to abstract ideologies that surpass empirical reality? Can psychology show us the way to achieve a new world peace beyond this habit?

Toward a Psychology of Our Phenomenology

New research into the living nature of our consciousness reveals an empirical psychology offering the possibility of a different path. In his laboratory at the University of Mainz, Thomas Metzinger focuses on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and applied ethics. His Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE) Project, which, seeks to develop a minimal model of consciousness, investigates the phenomenology and neural correlates of specific subjective experiences often described as episodes of "pure consciousness."

Metzinger has compiled more than 500 experience reports to provide the world's first comprehensive account of pure........

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