The Consciousness Chronicles

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			RUPERT SHELDRAKE ON TIME AND SPACE Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he took a double first class honours degree. He then studied philosophy at Harvard University before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He is one of the world's most innovative biologists, and is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory. He is a frequent contributor to BBC radio, and has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, and the Sunday Times. He is the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project.

			MARILYN SCHLITZ ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Senior Scientist at the Complementary Medicine Research Institute at the California Pacific Medical Center. She has published numerous articles on psi research and psychophysiology, cross cultural healing, consciousness studies, and creativity, has taught at Trinity University, Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and has lectured widely at major institutions including the United Nations and the Smithsonian Institute.

			THOMAS RAY ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND PSYCHEDELICS Thomas Ray, Ph.D earned undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry at Florida State University. He received his Masters and Doctorate in Biology from Harvard University, specializing in plant ecology. In August 1998 he became a Professor of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma, with an adjunct appointment as Professor of Computer Science. In his current research, the architecture of the human mind is being understood largely on the basis of interpretation of published reports of subjective experience, synthesized together with an exclusive molecular data set provided by the National Institute of Mental Health Psychoactive Drug Screening Program (NIMH-PDSP).

			ZORAN JOSIPOVIC ON MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS Zoran Josipovic, Ph.D. is a research scientist and an adjunct professor in the psychology department at the Center for Neural Science, New York University. His main interests are the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain, global versus local theories of consciousness, and the functioning of anti-correlated neural networks. Zoran is a long-term practitioner of meditation in the nondual traditions of Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Advaita Vedanta. He has also worked as a psychotherapist and a bodyworker and has taught meditation at Esalen Institute for many years.

			STUART HAMEROFF ON QUANTUM THEORY Stuart Hameroff is Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies, at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Following an interest in the computational capacity of microtubules inside neurons, Dr. Hameroff teamed up with the eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose in the early 90s to develop a highly controversial theory of consciousness called orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR). In 1994, Dr. Hameroff began the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference as Director of CCS. He has published five books and well over 100 research articles, and appeared in the film What the Bleep Do We Know?

			ARTHUR HASTINGS ON ALTERED STATES Arthur Hastings hold a Ph.D. in Public Address & Small Group Communication and is is a Professor and the Research Director of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP). He is also Director of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies. His areas of specialization are transpersonal theory, research methods, altered states of consciousness, and parapsychology. His research include evocation of non-drug altered states through hypnosis, an extended nondrug MDMA-like experience evoked through posthypnotic suggestion.

			JOHN JACOBSON ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME John Jacobson is a postgraduate researcher at the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA. His research is into the relationship between neurological stimuli and actual and perceived reaction times, suggesting that our actions may be determined by both the past and the future and having implications for volition.

			FRANK ECHENHOFER ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND AYAHUASCA Frank Echenhofer received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 1985. He has been a clinical research associate at Temple University and has been in private practice since 1985. Since 1998 he has been a professor of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His specializations are in the general areas of eastern and western comparative psychology, philosophy, and psychophysiology. Frank has conducted research with Tibetan Buddhist meditators in India, under the guidance of the Dalai Lama at his monastery. He has also conducted groundbreaking research into the neurological effects of the psychoactive shamanic medicine, ayahuasca.

			DAVID CHALMERS ON THE "HARD PROBLEM" OF CONSCIOUSNESS David Chalmers received his Ph.D. in 1993 in Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University and Director of the Centre for Consciousness. He's also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He works in the philosophy of mind and related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but also philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics. He famously coined the phrase "the hard problem" of consciousness, which has since been adopted across the field.

			SUSAN BLACKMORE ON STUDYING CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore is an author, broadcaster and visiting professor at the University of Plymouth, UK. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford University and a PhD in parapsychology from the University of Surrey. She no longer works on the paranormal. Her research interests include memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and meditation. She practices Zen and campaigns for drug legalization. She is author of over sixty academic articles, about fifty book contributions, and many book reviews. Her books include The Meme Machine, Consciousness: An Introduction, Conversations on Consciousness, and Ten Zen Questions.

			HARALD ATMANSPACHER ON TIME AND QUANTUM PHYSICS Harald Atmanspacher studied physics in Goethingen, Zurich and Munich, and received his PhD. in 1985. His field of research includes the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems and complex systems, conceptual aspects of algebraic quantum theory, and the relationship between mind and matter from interdisciplinary perspectives.

			DICK BIERMAN ON PRESENTIMENT Dick Bierman received his PhD in experimental physics at the University of Amsterdam in 1972, where he is currently investigating presentiment and consciousness. His research interests focus on phenomena at the boundary between psychology and physics which occur beyond our established theories of nature. This includes practical demonstrations that show presentiment occurring and theories about how these effects might be explained.