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I. Toward a unified model of matter and consciousness

Ia. The Penrose-Hameroff model of Orchestrated Objective Reduction: is experience 
inherent in the physical world?

Ib. Non-linear dynamics and the brain: consciousness as an emergent phenomenon?

• "Consciousness involves noncomputable ingredients"
  Roger Penrose
  from The Third Culture
  URL: http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/v-Ch.14.html

• "Why Classical Mechanics Cannot Naturally Accommodate Consciousness but Quantum
   Mechanics Can"
  Henry P. Stapp, 1995
  PSYCHE, 2(5), May 1995
  URL: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-05-stapp.html

• "Feasibility of Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in the Brain" 
  Stuart Hameroff
  URL: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum/week7a.htm

• "Quantum field theoretical approaches to consciousness", Scott Hagan
  URL: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum/Lecture7.htm

• Correlational Opponent Processing: A Unifying Principle
  Blue, Ronald C. & Blue, Wanda E. 
  URL: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/LaGrangeLn/ronaldblue/COPTHEORY.html

• "Self and binding"
  Matti Pitkanen, 1999
  URL: http://blues.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/selfbind.html

   

• "Funda-Mentality: is the conscious mind subtly linked to a basic level of the universe?"
  Stuart Hameroff
  URL: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/archives/phil/papers/199811/199811004/doc.html/tics.html

• "A Sonoran Afternoon: a Stuart Hameroff/ Alwyn Scott dialogue"
  URL: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/sonoran.htm

• A Model of Consciousness: An Engineering Approach, by Emil Jovanov
  URL: http://www.vxm.com/21R.125.html

• On the Methodology of EEG Analysis During altered States of Consciousness
  Emil Jovanov
  URL:  http://www.vxm.com
  (Note: this is an embedded file - please search for title under the Link section 
  of 21st Archives)

   

• "Thalamocortical foundations of conscious experience", James Newman
    URL: http://www.phil.vt.edu/assc/newman

• Self-Organization Within Complex Quantum States
  Andrej Detela
  URL: http://ciiiweb.ijs.si/dialogues/r-detela.htm
  (Note: for some reason we cannot seem to create a hyperlink to this paper. Please enter 
  it by hand on your address bar: it is well worth the effort!)

• "Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory of Mind"
  Henry P. Stapp, 1998
  URL: http://members.aol.com/Mszlazak/WhiteheadQT.html

   

IIa. The slight problem of quantum mechanics

IIb. Superstrings versus spinor networks: toward a unified theory 

• "Interpretations of quantum mechanics and the nature of reality"
  Scott Hagan
  URL: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum/Library/qmlecture2.htm

• "The second superstring revolution" - report on the latest developments in superstring 
  theory
  Prof. John H. Schwarz, Caltech
  URL: http://theory.caltech.edu/people/jhs/strings/index.htm

• "The Central Programme of twistor theory" Roger Penrose, 1999
  URL: file://C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\FrontPageTempDir\a012.jpg

• "The future of spin networks"
  New Physics Reviews, Volume 1, Number 2, Version 0.1
  URL: http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/NPR2.htm

III. A Bohm/ Sheldrake paradigm: the Information field

• On Quantum Mechanics and the Implicate Order: an Interview with Dr. Basil J. Hiley
  interview conducted by Mitja Perus
  National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  URL: http://goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1997/interview.html

• Comparison between Karl Pribram's "Holographic Brain Theory" and more 
  conventional models of neural computation
  Jeff Prideaux
  URL:  http://www.acsa2000.net/bcngroup/jponkp/

   

• Experimental Model for Collapse of the Quantum Wavefunction
  Mark Germine
  URL: http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1998/collapse.html

   

• "A new theory of the relationship of mind and matter", by David Bohm, 
  reprinted from Philosophical Psychology, 1990 
  URL: http://members.aol.com/Mszlazak/BOHM.html

• David Bohm: A Life of Dialogue Between Science and Spirit
  by William Keepin
  Noetic Sciences Review, Vol. 30, Summer 1994, pages 10-16, (IONS)
  URL: http://www.noetic.org/Ions/archivelisting.asp

• "A quantum explanation of Sheldrake's morphic resonance"
  Amit Goswami
  URL: http://www.swcp.com/swc/Essays/Sheldrake.html

• "Comparison of TGD based theory of self-organization with the ideas 
  of Rupert Sheldrake"
  Matti Pitkanen
  URL: http://blues.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/sheld.html

• "Quantum Vitalism", Stuart Hameroff
  URL: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/quantum/week8.htm

IV. Parapsychology/ Alternative Medicine: moving past the credibility debate

• What is Healing Energy?
  James L. Oschman, PhD 
  Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, April 1997

  Note: this link may not be permanent (sample articles rotated periodically). Please contact 
  author or Journal for reprints if page not found

   

• Biosystems Liquid Crystals and Potential Effects of Natural and Artificial 
  Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)
  James B. Beal, EMF Interface Consulting

   

• Experimental Evidence Suggestive of Anomalous Consciousness Interactions
  Deborah L. Delanoy
  URL: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/delanoy/delanoy.html

• Control systems, transduction arrays and psi healing: an experimental basis 
  for human potential science
  Lian Sidorov
  URL: www.emergentmind.org/sidorovI2.htm

   

• A model for remote mental interactions
  Matti Pitkanen
  URL: www.emergentmind.org/pitkanenI2a.htm

• The wave, probabilistic and linguistic representation of Cancer and HIV  
  Peter P. Gariaev, George G. Tertishny, Katherine A. Leonova
  URL:  www.emergentmind.org/gariaevI2.htm

• A Two-Worlds Model for Consciousness
  Ralph H. Abraham
  URL:  http://www.esalenctr.org/pdf/ACF418.pdf?submit=Read

• The Theory of Enformed Systems: A Paradigm of Organization and Holistic Systems
  Donald E. Watson,  Gary E. R. Schwartz,  Linda G. S. Russek 
  URL:  http://www.vxm.com/link.enformytheory.html

• "Link theory and PSI"
  Richard Shoup
  URL: http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/articles/Link%20Theory%20and%20Psi.pdf
  (Note: for more on Link Theory, see Boundary Institute)

• Physical theories of Psi
  from the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology site
  URL: http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/Physical_H.html

   

• "Managing the target pool bandwidth: noise reduction for anomalous cognition 
  experiments",  1994
  Edwin C. May, S. James P. Spottiswoode, Christine L. James
  URL:  http://www.jsasoc.com/docs/Target-bandwidth.pdf

   

• "Decision Augmentation Theory: Toward a Model of Anomalous Mental Phenomena"  1996
  Edwin C. May, Jessica M. Utts and S. James P. Spottiswoode
  URL:  http://www.jsasoc.com/docs/DAT-I.pdf

   

• "Nature's mind: the quantum hologram"
  Edgar Mitchell, Sc. D. , (1999?)
  URL: http://www.accessnv.com/nids/articles/naturesmind-qh.html

• On Complexity and Pragmatism
  Dean Radin, Ph. D.
  URL:  http://www.vxm.com/21R.99.html

• Toward a New/Old Humanism: Transitional States of Consciousness as a Clue?
  Dejan Rakovic
  URL:  http://www.vxm.com/21R.126.html

• "Physics and parapsychology"
  Dick J. Bierman
  Journal of Indian Psychology 7(2), 1-17, 1985
  URL: http://www.psy.uva.nl/resedu/pn/PUBS/BIERMAN/1985/pp.html

• "An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning"
  Prof. Jessica Utts
  Division of Statistics, University of California,Davis 
  URL: http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~utts/air2.html

• "The Challenge of consciousness Research"
  Brian D. Josephson and  Beverly A. Rubik
  Frontier Perspectives 3(1), 15-19, 1992
  URL: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/mm/articles/athens.html

• "Distant Intentionality and Healing"
  Larry Dossey, M.D.
  see Research Leads page

• "The Past, Present and Future of the Electrodermal Screening System"
  Prof. Julia J. Tsuei, MD, F.A.C.O.G.
  URL: http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=Article&ID=1086

• "Spin Doctors": A new paradigm theorizing the mechanism of bioenergy healing
  M. Sue Benford, R.N., M.A.
  Journal of Theoretics, June/July 1999, Vol. !, No. 2
  URL:  http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/articles/1%2D2/benford.html

• The Human Energy Field in Relation to Science, Consciousness and Health
  Gloria Alvino
  URL:  http://www.vxm.com/21R.43.html

• "An overview of microwave resonance therapy and EEG correlates of microwave 
  resonance relaxation and other consciousness altering techniques"
  D. Rakovic, Z. Jovanovic-Ignjatic, D. Radenovic, M. Tomasevic, E. Jovanov, V. Radivojevic, Z. Martinovic, P. Sukovic, M. Car, L. Skaric
  10th International Congress on Stress, Montreux, Switzerland, 1999
  URL:  http://www.iasc-bg.org.yu/Papers/Montre-99/Montre99.htm

   

V. Yoga: is the threshold of transcendence truly impenetrable to analysis?

• Very highly recommended:    "Zen and the brain", by James H. Austin, M.D. - for an 
  in-depth study of the short and long-term  neurophysiological changes associated with 
  meditation. MIT Press, 1998

• The Holotropic  Therapy System
  Peter A. Jackson
  URL: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Villa/5484/Grof.html

• Outline of an Integral Psychology
  Ken Wilber
  URL: http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/psych_model/psych_model1.cfm/xid,3943319/yid,14274195

   

• "Orchestrating our many selves: Jean Houston on the fallacy of self-mastery"
  Amy Edelstein
  What is Enlightenment, Vol 15, 1999
  URL: http://www.wie.org/j15/houston.html

• "Absolutely not!",an interview with Stephen Batchelor
  Andrew Cohen
  What is Enlightenment?, Vol14, 1998
  URL: http://www.wie.org/j14/batch.html

• "Integrating the Big Bang: an interview with Michael Murphy"
  Andrew Cohen
  What is Enlightenment?, Vol. 15 1999
  URL: http://www.wie.org/j15/murphy.html

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