CONSCIOUSNESS CHRONICLES 1
SUMMARY
In this first collection in the series we explore the fascinating relationship of time and space to consciousness, discover what we can learn from altered states of consciousness through meditation, hypnosis, psychedelics and ayahuasca, we talk to philosopher David Chalmers about his now famous "hard problem" of consciousness, and look at quantum approaches to reality with Stuart Hameroff.
Featuring RUPERT SHELDRAKE DAVID CHALMERS MARYLIN SCHLITZ FRANK ECHENHOFER ZORAN JOSIPOVIC
STUART HAMEROFF HARALD ATMANSPACHER DICK BIERMAN ARTHUR HASTINGS JOHN JACOBSON
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Featuring RUPERT SHELDRAKE DAVID CHALMERS MARYLIN SCHLITZ FRANK ECHENHOFER ZORAN JOSIPOVIC
STUART HAMEROFF HARALD ATMANSPACHER DICK BIERMAN ARTHUR HASTINGS JOHN JACOBSON
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PREVIEWS
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DAVID CHALMERS
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. |
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RUPERT SHELDRAKE
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 the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He 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. |
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MARILYN SCHLITZ
ALTERED STATES LEADING TO TRANSFORMATION Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Petaluma, CA. 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. |
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FRANK ECHENHOFER
CONSCIOUSNESS AND AYAHUASCA Frank Echenhofer received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 1985. Since 1998 he has been a professor of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. 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. |
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SUSAN BLACKMORE
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. |
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ZORAN JOSIPOVIC
ALTERED STATES: MEDITATION 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. |
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STUART HAMEROFF
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. 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? |
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HARALD ATMANSPACHER
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. |
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DICK BIERMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS AND 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. |
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ARTHUR HASTINGS
ALTERED STATES The late Arthur Hastings held a Ph.D. in Public Address & Small Group Communication and was a Professor and the Research Director of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP). He was also Director of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies. His areas of specialization were transpersonal theory, research methods, altered states of consciousness, and parapsychology. His research included evocation of non-drug altered states through hypnosis, an extended nondrug MDMA-like experience evoked through posthypnotic suggestion. |