THE SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL NETWORK
THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
*BEYOND THE BRAIN
New Avenues in Consciousness Research*
St. John's College, Cambridge, England 24-27
August 1995
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS AND
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
THURSDAY
Towards a Science of Consciousness:
Do We Need a New Epistemology?
Professor Willis Harman, Institute of Noetic
Sciences.
The study of consciousness (mind, spirit)
abounds with puzzles. One of the most familiar
goes by the name "mind-body problem." No less
perplexing is the matter of intentionality,
sometimes referred to as "downward causation" -
closely related to the centuries-old issue of
"free will vs. determinism." Then there is the
issue of subjectivity, and the concept of the
self. With regard to these puzzles there are
within the scientific community two major
positions. One is that they will eventually be
resolved within scientific methodology as it is
commonly understood; the other, that the puzzles
are so fundamental that a new epistemology of
science may be required.
Professor Willis Harman PhD has been President
of the Institute of Noetic Sciences since 1977.
From Professor of Engineering-Economic Systems
at Stanford, he moved to SRI International at
Menlo Park, where for 16 years he did research
on the future and strategic planning. He is the
author of Global Mind Change }and Creative
Work}, as well as editor of the recently
published New Metaphysical Foundations of
Modern Science.
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FRIDAY
The Heuristic and Healing Potential of
Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
Dr Stanislav Grof, International Transpersonal
Association
Throughout their existence, Western psychiatry
and psychology have systematically ignored
experiences and observations from non-ordinary
states of consciousness, whether these came from
historical studies, comparative religion,
anthropology, or various avenues of modern
research, such as parapsychology, psychedelic
therapy, experiential psychotherapies, or
thanatology. This lecture will explore the
implications of modern consciousness research
for the understanding of the dimensions of the
human psyche, emotional and psychosomatic
disorders, psychotherapy, spirituality, and the
relationship between consciousness and matter.
Special attention will be paid to experiences
and observations that represent a serious
challenge to traditional Western science and
indicate an urgent need for a radically new
understanding of the nature of reality and of
human nature.
Dr. Stanislav Grof MD is an internationally
renowned psychiatrist and researcher into
non-ordinary states of consciousness, a founder
and chief theoretician of transpersonal
psychology, and the founding president of the
International Transpersonal Association. His
books include: Holotropic Mind, The Adventure
of Self-Discovery, Beyond the Brain and The
Stormy Search of the Self the last written with
Christina Grof. Co-developer, with Christina, of
Holotropic Breathwork TM , he lectures and
conducts professional trainings all over the
world.
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Consciousness and Reality
Professor Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
The "reductionist/connectionist" view portrays
consciousness as an emergent property of
neuronal network firing patterns (not
necessarily dependent on intrinsic "biological"
properties of the neurons themselves, nor
qualitatively different from computers).
Certain features of consciousness are somewhat
difficult to reconcile with this reductionist
view. But if consciousness is not merely the
collective effect of patterns of neural
activity, what is it? One set of philosophical
positions views consciousness as a process
occurring in a medium of phenomenal experience
(qualia) embedded in physical reality. To expand
upon this, the physical nature of reality must
be considered at its very deepest levels - in
accordance with relativity, and its relation to
quantum theory (Penrose, 1989; 1994).
Recently, Hameroff and Penrose (1995; 1996) have
proposed a specific model of quantum coherent
superposition and self-organized collapse
occurring in microtubules, hollow protein
polymers which are the main constituents of each
neuron's cell 'cytoskeleton'. After a
pre-conscious period of quantum computation, the
self-energy of the coherent microtubule system
reaches a threshold (related to quantum gravity)
and "self-collapses", (non-computably, according
to principles of objective reduction -Penrose
1989;1994). Microtubule-associated-proteins
("MAPs") are available to "tune" the quantum
oscillations, and we thus term the process
orchestrated objective reduction ("Orch OR").
This self-collapse process results in classical
"outcome states" of microtubule tubulins which
then implement neurophysiological functions. It
is the self-collapse process itself which we
pinpoint as a conscious event; cascades of such
events would then constitute a "stream" of
consciousness.
By viewing quantum superpositions as
separations in underlying space-time geometry
(and objective reductions as selections of one
of the separated geometries - Penrose, 1994, p.
338), we link Orch OR to a process in
fundamental reality. We suggest that the
subjective nature of conscious phenomena arises
from self-selections in space-time geometry.
Hameroff, S.R., Penrose, R., (1995) Conscious
events as orchestrated space-time selections.
Submitted Hameroff S, Penrose R (1996)
Orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in
brain microtubules-a model for consciousness.
In: Toward a Science of Consciousness:
Contributions from the 1994 Tucson Conference.
Eds: S Hameroff, A Kaszniak, A Scott. MIT
Press, Cambridge MA.
Penrose, R. (1989) The Emperor's New Mind,
Oxford University Press.
Penrose, R. (1994) Shadows of the Mind, Oxford
University Press.
Professor Stuart Hameroff MD is Associate
Professor in the Advanced Biotechnology
Laboratory of the Department of Anesthiology and
Psychology in the University of Arizona. He
divides his time between clinical care and
research into the brain/mind problem. He is the
author of Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular
Consciousness and Technology }and co-editor of
the forthcoming Toward a Science of
Consciousness} , a book based on a conference
which he co-organised in Tucson in 1994.
Recently he has been collaborating with Sir
Roger Penrose and others in considering quantum
coherence, superposition and computing in
microtubules in relation to consciousness.
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Modelling Participatory Consciousness}\
Professor Chris Clarke, University of
Southampton
Modelling: Finding a symbolic structure regarded
either as a purely abstract underpinning of the
phenomena, or as a representation of what is
actually going on.
How do we find models robust enough to be
disprovable and flexible enough for such dynamic
phenomena?}
Participatory: Consciousness is primarily the
observing, secondarily the observed; it is
essentially active.
Can we escape from models in which consciousness
is an external object, rather than a
participating subject?
Consciousness: Is not a mechanism or a function,
not a force or a principle.
Can we make room for the experientiality, the
* what is it like to be ...* that distinguishes
the conscious from the non-conscious?
Professor Chris Clarke MA, PhD is Professor of
Applied Mathematics at the University of
Southampton. His main research area is in
gravitation theory and the nature of space-time,
which he has more recently combined with
research on magnetic measurements of the brain
and on the nature of consciousness. He has a
practical interest in religious experience and
is author of the recently published Reality
Through the Looking Glass}.
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Who's in Charge Here? Identity and the
Intelligent Unconscious
Professor Guy Claxton, University of Bristol
Much of the current wave of research on
consciousness mirrors the Western assumption
that the conscious mind is the primary seat of
human intelligence and identity. In particular,
consciousness is associated with " will" and
control: the formulation and initiation of
voluntary action. Three lines of research,
however, cast doubt on this assumption by
revealing the scope and powers of the "
intelligent unconscious" :
(i) Libet's controversial studies show that
voluntary action is initiated in the brain prior
to the experience of conscious intention;
(ii) mounting evidence from cognitive science
shows the uniquity and subtlety of " implicit
perception";
(iii) the sharpening of mindfulness, the
objective observation of mental states as they
arise, also reveals " intention" to be a
transient experience that is at best an
unreliable guide to behaviour. I argue that the
subliminal perception of inner states allows
(fallible) predictions about future states to
emerge in consciousness, but that these
intimations then get re-interpreted by the "
self-system" as evidence of its control. There
is no * downward causation * a la Sperry:
consciousness is a * non-executive director *
of the mind. It witnesses, but does not
instigate. The Buddhists' and Christian
mystics' view of mind argues for just such a
re-evaluation of consciousness. This conclusion
is, of course, as repugnant to the
* self systems * of consciousness researchers
as it is to any other.
In general, the more detail we uncover about the
relationship between conscious and unconscious,
both through psychological research and through
the cultivation of attention, the more venerable
philosophical traps and minefields we shall be
able to avoid.
Professor Guy Claxton MA, DPhil, AFBPsS,
CPsychol is Visiting Professor in Psychology
and Education at the University of Bristol. He
is the author of many books, including Wholly
Human, Beyond Therapy }and The Heart of
Buddhism.} His latest book, Noises from the
Darkroom: The Science and Mystery of Mind},
explores ways of transcending the illusion of
selfhood.
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Intention and Intuition: Implications of
Consciousness Research for Treatment and
Diagnosis in Mind-Body Health
Dr Marilyn Schlitz, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Recognizing a range of possible mechanisms by
which healing occurs, Schlitz focuses on two
frontier areas of consciousness studies that may
offer new leads. These include: experiments of
direct intentionality on biological systems, and
experiments on the direct acquisition of
information about distant objects or events
(remote viewing). In considering the
experimental data, Schlitz raises two primary
questions. First, can intentionality be nonlocal
at the macroscopic level, and not merely at the
quantum mechanical level? And second, what are
the limits to which intuition may play a role in
clinical decisions?
Dr. Marilyn Schlitz PhD is Director of Research
at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Trained in
anthropology and parapsychology, she has
published numerous articles on
consciousness-related issues, including
cross-cultural healing, psi research and
sociolinguistics. Prior to joining the staff of
IONS, she held the Thomas Welton Stanford
Psychical Research Chair in the Department of
Psychology, Stanford University.
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Brains and Fields: Neuropsychological
Implications of an Interconnected Universe
Dr Ervin Laszlo
Science is in the throes of a quiet but
deep-seated revolution, and consciousness
research is catching up with it. The revolution
is prompted by new and often surprising findings
coming to light thanks to more powerful and
penetrating instruments and new techniques for
modelling and computing complex interactions.
The net effect of science's new and more
powerful ways of dialoguing with nature is the
accumulation of insights on the one hand, and of
puzzles on the other. The emerging findings
seldom fit into the framework of classical
theories; more is required to accomodate them
than a piecemeal addition of a concept or an
assumption here and there. An entirely new
paradigm is emerging of nature, and of the human
being as part of nature. The observer is an
integral part of the phenomena he observes, and
the linked pair of observer and observed is an
integral part of the network of relations that
surrounds them. Reality is a seamless whole in
which we can distinguish individual events for
the sake of analytical convenience, but cannot
hold them to be entirely discrete and autonomous
without violating the limits of observational
evidence.
The current revolution in science goes beyond
the cognitive revolution, which brought an
information-theoretical focus to the
investigation of mind-phenomena: it is
essentially a "consciousness revolution." This
is a radical innovation: it brings human
consciousness into the ambit of scientifically
researchable phenomena. The contents of
conscious experience have long been banned as
mere acausal epi-phenomena, as by-products of
the brain activity with which they were
sometimes said to be identical. This is no
longer true of the new concept. Here mental
states are viewed as dynamic properties of the
activity of the brain, inseparably interfused
with them.Yet consciousness is not seen as one
element in a causal chain of which the other
elements are neural and physiological: rather,
consciousness is considered an emergent property
of the system in which it appears. It infuses
the entire brain and nervous system, and once it
emerges, it becomes a factor in its functioning.
The systematic exploration of consciousness as a
field of natural-scientific investigation will
constitute a milestone in the evolution of
science. It will bring insight regarding the
faculties of the brain into the context of
quantum and even subquantum field theory. It
will link the phenomena of mind with the
biophysics of the organism, and insert the
integrated psychophysical concept within the
compass of the new field physics. This
development will, at one and the same time,
enhance our understanding of human
consciousness, and make a major contribution to
the integration of the scientific world
picture.
Dr Ervin Laszlo DSc, PhD is the author and
editor of 57 books and over 300 papers and
articles. He is Chairman of the European Academy
for Evolutionary Studies, Rector of the Forum
for Advanced Evolutionary Studies and President
of the newly formed Budapest Club as well as a
Member of the Club of Rome. He is Editor of
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution,
} and General Editor of Global Policy: Studies
on the 21st Century. }He is an adviser to the
Director-General of UNESCO.
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SATURDAY
Brain, Mind and Beyond
Dr Peter Fenwick, University of London
Our current neuroscientific model of the brain
has been spectacularly successful. Neurobiology,
neuroanatomy and neurophysiology have defined
the development and functioning of the major
cell groups within the central nervous system.
Neuropsychology and information theory have
allowed the detailed analysis of the cognitive
structure of the mind to be mapped precisely
onto the neuroanatomical structure of the brain.
However, despite this detailed knowledge, there
is as yet not one comprehensive theory to
explain how neuronal transmission gives rise to
the subjective experience of consciousness.
Recent experiments on direct brain to brain
transfer of information between empathic
subjects suggests that consciousness must be
non-local. Subjective experiences in altered
states of consciousness suggest the universal
nature of consciousness and its relationship to
the individual.
Dr. Peter Fenwick, MB, BChir, FRCPsych, DPM is
Chairman of the Council of the Scientific and
Medical Network. He is Senior Lecturer at the
Institute of Psychiatry in London, Consultant
Neurophysiologist at the Radcliffe Infirmary in
Oxford, and Honorary Consultant in
Neurophysiology to Broadmoor Special Hospital.
He lectures widely all over the world on brain
disorders and has made many appearances on radio
and television.
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Physicalism and Parapsychology
Dr John Beloff, University of Edinburgh
Physicalism, the doctrine that everything that
happens in the real world has a physical
explanation, with the implication that
consciousness or mind is irrelevant to human
behaviour, is here examined. The conclusion is
reached that, however strong our intuitive or
ideological reasons may be for rejecting such a
doctrine, there is one and only one possibility
of disproving it, and that is by demonstrating
the existence of phenomena which, by definition,
defy a physicalist explanation. Such phenomena
are what are called * paranormal *
However, whether parapsychology, which deals
with these phenomena, can ever succeed in
providing the sort of evidence that would
convince the scientific community that
physicalism must be abandoned is another matter
about which we can only speculate.
Dr. John Beloff BA, PhD is an Honorary Fellow of
the Department of Psychology in the University
of Edinburgh. He has had an abiding interest in
parapsychology and its implacations for the
philosophy of mind. He has served as president
of the Parapsychological Association and of the
Society for Psychical Research. He is author of
The Existence of Mind (1962), Psychological
Sciences (1973), The Relentless Question (1990),
Parapsychology: A Concise History (1994); }and
co-editor (with J.R. Smythies) of The Case for
Dualism (1989).}
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Consciousness Studies: Dissolving the Boundary
between Psychology and Physics
Dr Max Velmans, Goldsmiths College, University
of London
Cartesian dualism separates the extended stuff
of the material world from the thinking stuff of
consciousness, leaving consciousness beyond the
reach of natural science. Reductionism attempts
to heal this split by treating consciousness as
nothing more than a state or function of the
brain, contrary to the evidence of everyday
experience. I argue that both dualism and
reductionism conflict with common-sense, and
that neither position is supported by science.
Conscious experiences result from the
interaction of events in the world, body and
brain with nonconscious perceptual processing.
The resulting experiences combine into a
phenomenal world which models the initiating
events, including their location and extension
in space. Although complex neural causes and
correlates of experience exist within the brain,
most of the phenomenal world is not * inside the
brain * , contrary to what is supposed in
materialist philosophies of mind. Many
experienced phenomena are subjectively *
projected * beyond the brain including pains,
tactile sensations, and auditory and visual
experiences. These combine into the phenomenal
world that we ordinarily thing of as the *
physical world * . With suitable technology, the
same perceptual processes can be artificially
engaged to produce " virtual realities" . In
essence, these relationships are * reflexive *.
This way of characterising the relationship of
consciousness to the brain and the physical
world completely alters the nature of the "
mind/body problem" . It enables one to steer a
fine line between idealism and realism. It also
clarifies the relation of psychology to physics.
References:
Velmans, M. (1990) Consciousness, brain, and the
physical world. Philosophical Psychology,} 3,
77-99.
Velmans, M. (1993) A Reflexive Science of
consciousness. In Experimental and Theoretical
Studies of Consciousness. CIBA Foundation
Symposium 174. Wiley, Chichester, pp 81-99.
Velmans, M. (1996) What and where are conscious
experiences? In M. Velmans (ed) The Science of
Consciousness: Psychological,
Neuropsychological, and Clinical Reviews.}
Routledge (in press).
Dr. Max Velmans BEng, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
is Reader in Psychology at Goldsmiths College
in the University of London. He has written
numerous papers on science and consciousness and
is editor of a forthcoming academic textbook on
this subject. He is founder of the Mind/Body
special interest group within the British
Psychological Society.
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The Sleeping Beauty: the Awakening of Instinct
into Consciousness}\
Anne Baring
The Sleeping Beauty is an image of our
instinctive consciousness, our soul, which for
many centuries has been increasingly
marginalised and devalued in relation to mind.
In my talk I will explore aspects of the long
and fascinating mythological history which
reflects the evolution of consciousness and the
dissociation between mind and soul. Through
images drawn from the ancient tradition of
Alchemy, I hope to show how we can bring about
the reunion of the two estranged aspects of our
nature - our head and our heart - and bring to
an end the dualism which fragments our culture.
Anne Baring MA is a member of the Association of
Jungian Analysts, London and the author, with
Jules Cashford, of The Myth of the Goddess:
Evolution of an Image, a children's book, The
Birds Who Flew Beyond Time and, with Andrew
Harvey, The Mystic Vision. }She is passionately
interested in the way consciousness seems to be
guiding its own expansion towards a greater
understanding of itself through the human
psyche.
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A Dyadic Model of Consciousness
Dr Edgar Mitchell, Institute of Noetic Sciences
The proposed model is based upon the learning
experience of both science and mystical
traditions. It is a cosmological, evolutionary
model which proposes that we inhabit a learning,
self-organizing universe in which the external
and internal experience are equally important.
The natural universe expresses two fundamental
attributes: existence and knowing, a dyad, which
evolved interactively together since the Big
Bang. Human self-reflective awareness arose,
late in the evolutionary process, from
self-awareness which in turn evolved from
undifferentiated awareness. Undifferentiated
awareness may be present below the level of
animate organisms. The model is consistent with
quantum theory and relativity but also explains
the entire range of subjective phenomena from
simple "feelings" to the more bizarre
psychokinetic events.
Dr. Edgar Mitchell ScD
has been a pioneer in modern efforts to expand
science towards understanding consciousness and
inner experience. He was an Apollo astronaut and
the sixth man to walk on the moon. He is the
founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and
co-founder of the Association of Space
Explorers. He is author of Psychic
Exploration.}
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First-Person Experience and the Scientific
Exploration of Consciousness
Professor Brian Josephson, University of
Cambridge
This talk contrasts knowing through direct
experience, and knowing in other ways. Workers
such as Daniel Dennett and Paul Churchland have
characterised first-person (direct) knowledge as
being error-prone to such a degree that it is
essentially valueless, having significance only
as a scientific curiosity. I shall argue that
this represents a flawed point of view,
consequent upon being hypnotised by a particular
concept of what constitutes knowledge. A simple
retuning of our intellectual apparatus is
sufficient to transform this destructive point
of view into a constructive one seeing conscious
experience as an adjunct to life that is in
general error-free.
Professor Brian Josephson MA, PhD, FRS
is Professor of Physics in the University of
Cambridge. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize
in Physics for his work on tunnelling
supercurrents, but since that time has focussed
much of his attention on the limitations of
conventional modes of scientific thinking and
the creation of a paradigm which will overcome
some of these limitations. His particular
interests include higher states of
consciousness, the organisation associated with
intelligence, and paranormal phenomena.
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Altered States through Meditation and Dreams
Professor David Fontana, University of Wales}\
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented
interest among Western scientists and laypeople
in the consciousness states experienced during
meditation and dreaming respectively. Modern
techniques have made these meditative and dream
states accessible to researchers in an
unprecedented way, and many of the findings
generated by such techniques link interestingly
with the esoteric teachings of both Eastern and
Western spiritual/mystery traditions. The paper
will explore the findings concerned in the
context of these traditions, and draw tentative
conclusions on their implications for our
understanding of both conscious and unconscious
psychological processes.
Professor David Fontana BA, MEd, PhD, CPsychol}
is reader in Educational Psychology at the
University of Wales in Cardiff. He is also
Professor of Educational Psychology at the
University of Minho in Portugal and Visiting
Professor at the University of Algarve. His many
books on topics such as dreaming, educational
psychology, psychotherapy, meditation, time
management and allied topics have appeared in
nineteen languages.
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Survival: Memory Beyond the Brain?
David Lorimer, Scientific and Medical Network
Current neurophysiological theories assume that
consciousness is produced by brain processes and
that memory is exclusively stored in the brain.
An alternative model is to treat the brain as
the transmitter or filter rather than the
originator of consciousness. In this case, death
might not spell the extinction of consciousness
but a transition in which space-time limitations
are overcome. Two crucial criteria of the
survival of consciousness are identity and
memory. Evidence suggesting survival of the self
in some form comes not only from ostensible
communications from the dead, but also from the
research by Professor Ian Stevenson on children
who remember previous lives. Such phenomena
seem to be inexplicable on the basis of
materialist theories of mind - even the
super-ESP hypothesis.
David Lorimer MA is Director of the Scientific
and Medical Network. He is author of Survival?
Body, Mind and Death in the Light of Psychic
Experience }and Whole in One: The Near-Death
Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness.
}He was formerly a teacher of modern languages
and philosophy at Winchester College.
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SUNDAY
Enlightenment, Altered States, Endarkenment:
What Lies Beyond Ordinary Mind?
Professor Charles Tart, University of California
When people reach a certain level of maturity
there is a natural urge to transcend basic
safety, bodily and social needs and find a
deeper meaning in existence than we get from a
materialistic society or from traditional
religions that no longer have much meaning for
us. This is a difficult search and can easily
go off course, but, if successful, we discover
that, compared to what we could be, we live in a
state of endarkenment - a state that is,
unfortunately, culturally "normal." Through the
occasional glimpses of altered ways of existing
that we call altered states and/or through
systematic practices like meditation and/or
"accidentally" some people move toward
"enlightenment." Professor Tart will try to
illustrate what some of the qualities of
"enlightenment" are, focusing on modern
psychological data as well as traditional
material.
Professor Charles Tart PhD is Professor of
Psychology at the University of California,
Davis, and is internationally famous for
research on altered states of consciousness,
transpersonal psychology and parapsychology. His
ten books include two classics, Altered States
of Consciousness }and Transpersonal
Psychologies. }His Waking Up: Overcoming the
Obstacles to Human Potential }synthesised
Buddhist, Sufi and Gurdjieffian mindfulness
training ideas with modern psychology and his
latest book, Open Mind, Discriminating Mind,
}extends these explorations.
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{Ref.} Lecturer - Title
{ BB1} Prof. Willis Harman - Towards a Science
of Consciousness: Do We Need a New
Epistemology?
{ BB2} Dr. Stanislav Grof - The Heuristic &
Healing Potential of Non-Ordinary States of
Consciousness
{ BB3} Prof. Stuart Hameroff - Consciousness and
Reality
{ BB4} Prof. Chris Clarke - Modelling
Participatory Consciousness
{ BB5} Prof. Guy Claxton - Who" s In Charge
Here? Identity and the Intelligent
Unconscious
{ BB6} Dr. Marilyn Schlitz - Intention and
Intuition: Implications of Consciousness
Research for Treatment and Diagnosis in
Mind-Body Health
{ BB7} Prof. Ervin Laszlo - Brains and Fields:
Neuropsychological Implications of an
Interconnected Universe
{ BB8} Panel - Questions and Discussion
{ BB9} Dr. Peter Fenwick - Brain, Mind and
Beyond
{ BB10} Dr. John Beloff - Physicalism &
Parapsychology
{ BB11} Dr. Max Velmans - Consciousness
Studies: dissolving the Boundary between
Psychology and Physics
{ BB12} Anne Baring - The Sleeping
Beauty: The Awakening of Instinct into
Consciousness
{ BB13} Dr. Edgar Mitcheel - A Dyadic Model of
Consciousness
{ BB14} Prof. Brian Josephson - First Person
Experience & The Scientific Exploration of
Consciousness
{ BB15} Prof. David Fontana - Altered Stated
through Meditation and Dreams
{ BB16} David Lorimer - Survival: Memory
Beyond the Brain?
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Altered States, Endarkment: What lies Beyond
Ordinary Mind?
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