Journal Articles
Can we Crack the Mind-Body Problem? Part III – Emmanuel Ransford
...I hope to bolster the idea that a nonmaterialist, yet scientifically sound, theory of brain consciousness is possible. My approach is tentative and should be read with a “what if” mindset—what if matter were holomatter? I’ll then freely speculate on the issue of transcendence, as glimpsed through the lens of in-causation. Next, I’ll contend that science provides some intriguing clues that our life-bearing universe may have meaning and purpose. Finally, I shall ponder how Gödelian incompleteness and in-causation may relate.
Einstein’s Abandoned Otherworld – Mukhopadhyay, AK
...In the process, the dark cold terrain of the depth cosmology beyond zero-point energy and the warm enlightened vast of depth psychology has been systematized. The organogram of the activities between zero-point energy and conscious “will” has been constructed. The door is let open for deep physics of dark energy, information, and life.
Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology – Schwartz, Stapp, and Beauregard
Contemporary physical theory brings directly and irreducibly into the overall causal structure certain psychologically described choices made by human agents about how they will act. This key development in basic physical theory is applicable to neuroscience, and it provides neuroscientists and psychologists with an alternative conceptual framework for describing neural processes. Indeed, owing to certain structural features of ion channels critical to synaptic function, contemporary physical theory must in principle be used when analysing human brain dynamics.
Twelve Ideas that Might Expand the Scope of Science – Mukhopadhyay, AK
Science progresses slowly by Apollonian, who extends its boundary by bringing perfection on the established lines. Science often takes an intuitive leap by Dionysian, who opens an unexpected new line of research. The present paper presents twelve mixes of such ideas which together are capable of extending the scope of science. An analyst could find several ideas within one main idea; assumption, imagination, intuition or obvious reality, not one, however, on any beaten track. Each of the main idea is supported by a figure, the mind’s artwork, captioned with several new ideas. Most of the ideas have a bias towards operational consciousness. The erected framework has the potential of ushering in a new Multiversal Worldview accommodating science, humanities, and spirit together.
Science of Divinity: Part IV – Mudhopadhyay, AK
Divinity is the objective reality of the Divine. It could be observed in nature, in deep ecology, in cosmology beyond ZPE, and in depth psychology. The Divine could be personified in human behavior when the organ brain achieves the desired level of perfection. A science of divinity and the Divine is possible to develop taking science (world), humanity (you, me, and they), and the spirit (consciousness) together. One beneficial spin off of this approach in worldly science is the development of an algorithm starting in consciousness and ending in space, time, and energy, describing how “will” is translated into an event.
Axiology of Nature-Consciousness Reality – Mukhopadhyay, AK
Perception cannot change the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the reality across the nature-consciousness spectrum have been described without any filter, and use of any methodological reduction orchestrated or otherwise. Consciousness-as-such, consciousness-as-experienced, and consciousness-as-articulated have been laid bare to accommodate respectively the spirit, humanities, and science. The Multiversity-inspired proposed Worldview takes care of multiple universe(s), our universe, and the four-dimensional world respectively in terms of nondual reality, biological reality and material reality, and in the process constructs an unbroken wholeness of the Akhanda reality. The relevance of the Worldview in consciousness study and the impacts on psychology and psychiatry has been discussed.
Books & Chapters
A Quest for Wisdom: Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life – David Lorimer
This wide-ranging and highly-acclaimed volume brings together 25 of his essays written over the last 40 years. Among the significant thinkers featured here are many who have shone their light on his path, and which can provide enriching nourishment for readers on their own life journeys. The essays explore philosophy, meaning and spirituality; consciousness, death and transformation; and responsibility, ethics and society - all themes central to the Scientific and Medical Network, with which David has been associated for over 35 years and for whose journal, Paradigm Explorer, he has reviewed over 150 books a year. As such, these perceptive and illuminating essays explore the nature of life and death, questions of meaning and purpose, and the challenge of how we can live more harmoniously together. David hopes that readers will be inspired, as Albert Schweitzer put it, in our common task ‘to become more finely and deeply human.’
Bridging Science and Spirit – Nisha Manek
Fascinated by the mysterious power of human intention to make things happen? Discover its real-world applications by exploring the breakthrough research of psychoenergetic science.
Complexity, Complementarity, Consciousness – Vasileios Basios, 2017
Several modern scientific disciples arrive fast in exhausting the one-sided mechanical and reductionistic thinking that were established upon. Biological Evolution is discussed as such an example here.
Complexity, Interdependence & Objectification – Basios, 2012
During the last twenty years or so, the investigation of fundamental aspects of complex systems in connection with the observer's participatory role in determining their understanding brings forth a novel perspective in science.
Consciousness In The Universe An Updated Review Of The “Orch Or” Theory – Hameroff, 2016
We proposed in the mid 1990’s that consciousness depends on biologically “orchestrated” coherent quantum processes in collections of microtubules within brain neurons, that these quantum processes correlate with, and regulate, neuronal synaptic and membrane activity, and that the continuous Schrödinger evolution of each such process terminates in accordance with the specific Diósi–Penrose (DP) scheme of “objective reduction” (“OR”) of the quantum state.
Criticisms of Transpersonal Psychology and Beyond – Walsh, 2013
After nearly half a decade of transpersonal psychology, to be precise 43 years after the foundation of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology that gave the nascent movement an academic and scholarly appearance, it seems about time to pause and ask: What has the movement of transpersonal psychology really achieved?
Book Reviews
A Forgotten Truth and The Sacred Quest
The subtitles of these books are significant in referring to a spiritual vision for modern man and the integration of experiment with experience in arriving at a coherent worldview. Both Max and Peter epitomised the Network approach of balancing rigour with openness, and indeed it was Peter who invited Max to join the Network after the initial meeting recommended writing letters to possible members.
A New Psychology of Human Well-Being
At all stages, it is important to let go of fear and anger resulting in accumulating pain and leading to energetic instability. Richard shows how management of the emotions is a key in this respect, although the fulfilment of the ego’s needs and the soul’s desires is even more critical.
After Lives, The Myth of the Afterlife and An Atheist in Heaven
John Casey gives a magisterial overview of the Western eschatological tradition – death, judgement, heaven and hell – providing sympathetic and lucid summaries of a vast range of different and at times conflicting sources that is a real pleasure to read.
An Essay on Metaphysics
There is no doubt in my mind that the book is a seminal one for philosophy of science and should be much more widely known in the field. It consists of five parts, namely metaphysics beginning with Aristotle, anti-metaphysics, the existence of God, the metaphysics of Kant, and causation.
An Uncommon Collaboration
The author is surely correct in describing the collaboration between Krishnamurti (1895-1986) and David Bohm (1917-1992) as uncommon, since, as he points out, most collaborations take place within the same discipline. There is no doubt that they were both men of genius, deeply concerned with the human situation, its limitations and prospects.
Belonging to God
The book is grounded in inter-spirituality and endorsed by Ravi Ravindra with its deeper exploration of the spiritual transformative journey, which is the primary purpose of religion – hence the term interspiritual rather than interreligious dialogue.
Essays
A (very) Brief History of Certainty – IIya Prigogine
The future is uncertain; this is true for the nature we describe and this is true on the level of our own existence. But this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. Time becomes 'construction' and creativity a way to participate in this construction.
A New INSCIght of INformational SCIence – Jude Currivan, 2018
Reverting to the primacy of mind and consciousness, as espoused by Planck and many other pioneering scientists, it is showing is that universal mind, articulated as digitised information and represented as dynamic and relational patterns and processes of semiotic information, literally in-forms the formation of our Universe.
About the Continuity of Consciousness – van Lommel, 2018
The question is: How can scientific research on NDE help us to understand more about the mystery of the mind-brain relationship? By asking this and other questions about consciousness my interest started in NDE research.
An Extended Scientist Look at Esoteric Knowledge – Chris Thomson
Esoteric knowledge has been saying these things for a very long time.
Atheism is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
Marcelo Gleiser, a 60-year-old Brazil-born theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College and prolific science popularizer, has won this year’s Templeton Prize. Valued at just under $1.5 million, the award from the John Templeton Foundation annually recognizes an individual “who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.
Can we Crack the Mind-Body Problem? Part I – Emmanuel Ransford
This paper is in three parts. In this Part One, the randomness displayed by quantum objects is explored. The notion of quantumhood is then introduced. It refers to a kind of “wave wholeness” of elementary particles that, most significantly, turns out to be necessary to sustain nature’s consistency. When this quantumhood is in danger of being lost, a wave collapse, or quantum jump, is in order.
Quotes
– Erwin Schrödinger
– Prof David Bohm
– Albert Einstein
Other Materials
A List of Eminent People Interested in PSI
A list of more than two hundred well-known intellectuals - scientists, thinkers, writers, and artists of various kinds - who took the possibility of psychical phenomena seriously.
Dr. George Ritchie Shares His Near-Death Experience
Author George Ritchie speaks with Joan Rivers regarding his near-death experience and what he was shown while declared dead for nine minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iqh8XB5k2w
iDigital Medium – Afterlife Resources Database
iDigital Medium's team and contributors "share a common interest - to water the "plant" of human consciousness and watch as it blossoms into a beautiful flower."
Pathological Disbelief – Brian Josephson
In this presentation, Brian Josephson demonstrates the pathology of disbelief in different scientific communities. Such disbelief has hit Parapsychological research particularly hard and has deemed it 'antiscientific'.
Poster presenting the Galileo Commission by the Chair David Lorimer
At the recently held conference The Science of Consciousness 2019 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the Chair of the Galileo Commission David Lorimer presented a poster in relation to the initiative.
What Constitutes Compelling Evidence and for Whom? – Wallace, 2016
In this presentation Alan Wallace takes a look at what makes up for an exceptional claim and exceptional evidence. After looking at different types of evidence, such as physical vs subjective evidence, Wallace concludes that 'in today’s world, the notion that science is the sole arbiter of truth is highly questionable'.
