Thanks Vyd, and you ask a great question. I think, if I understand Atmanspacher correctly, as a neutral monist James would consider consciousness as real as physical matter. In fact, Atmanspacher leans toward the dual aspect monism of Pauli, Jung, Bohm and others over the neutral monism of Russell, James and Chalmers suggesting that at heart their view prioritizes the mental over the physical. He separates them as compositional vs decompositional. In this view, James is compositional whereby he considers the mental, conciousness, to be composed of (and separate from) the pyschophysical neutral substance from which both mind and matter emerge. The decompositional model (again as I understand it) are manifestations of the single unity and that unity retains its substance. Hope that makes some sense. I keep trying to get my mind around these things.