Iebele Abel is an artist, composer, author, and independent researcher in the field of perception and human consciousness. Iebele has studied the influence of mind on matter in the context of art, science, and spirituality. In this book he shares conversations about his work with leading scientists and philosophers in the field of consciousness research. Iebele is one of the first artists to work with quantum random event generators to directly manifest consciousness into images and music.
A broad social shift has been taking place over the last few years; the materialistic world view of the past centuries is giving way to a view of life in which our consciousness is the primary focus. The entanglement of consciousness and reality raises questions about life and society that have been posed since ancient times.
The Dutch artist and researcher Iebele Abel (1969) uses technology and present-day science to reiterate these questions. Within different disciplines of science, technology and philosophy these questions are addressed on a fundamental level. Now evidence is growing that consciousness and the bodily manifestation of life itself are entangled, this may be the starting point for new observations, from which radical new technologies and forthcoming cultures may derive.
In Manifestations of Mind in Matter, Iebele Abel meets prominent scientists and pioneers in the practice of consciousness research. He does not avoid complex questions. He explores the boundaries of artistic, spiritual and scientific thinking in open-hearted and personal conversations.
This full-color book, containing both conversations and images of the art of Iebele Abel, is interesting for anyone who refuses to take things for granted, but who is fascinated by the mysterious entanglement of mind and matter.
Iebele Abel in conversation with Dick Bierman, physicist and consciousness researcher; Brenda Dunne, developmental psychologist and President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), Princeton; Hans Gerding, professor of philosophy (Leiden University) and director of the Institute for Parapsychology in Utrecht; Robert Jahn, president of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratories (PEAR) at Princeton University; Roger Nelson, cognitive psychologist and founder of the Global Consciousness Project; Peter van Kan, musician and meditation teacher; Tijn Touber, author and editor of Ode Magazine, Roeland van Wijk, molecular cell biologist, biophysicist and vice president of the International Institute of Biophysics, Germany.