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Searchable Meditation Bibliography
Click here to access a fully searchable, regularly updated database of nearly 6000 citations to publications on the science of meditation.
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Psychophysiological Correlates of Nondual States of Awareness
Testing the Ontological Status of the Experience of Meditation Induced Timeless States
An EEG study to test whether "non-dual" meditators' subjective states of "timelessness" can be objectively measured.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2008
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Meeting of the Minds
Invitational Meeting on Anomalous Cognition
The purpose of the conference was to encourage a dialogue between a distinguished group of mainstream scientists and rigorous researchers working at the frontiers of science.
- Extramural
- Completed
- Started 2007
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Consciousness & Healing
Book and DVD
We completed a study of barriers to the integration of mind-body medicine into healthcare, as well as an exploration of strategies used by leading healthcare professionals who are successfully integrating more consciousness-based approaches into medical education settings.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2006
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Consciousness & Healing
Identifying Barriers to Integration of Mind-Body Approaches
We engaged in a study of barriers to the integration of mind-body medicine into healthcare, as well as an exploration of strategies used by leading healthcare professionals who are successfully integrating more consciousness-based approaches into medical education settings.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2006
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Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing
Assessing the Evidence
This project culminated in an innovative three DVD self-paced learning program featuring scientists, healers and healing professionals who are exploring the frontiers of consciousness and healing by addressing the widespread practice of distant healing.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2006
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Markov Chain
Experiments Testing Models of Mind-Matter Interaction
Experimental tests of a theory of mind-matter interaction.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2006
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Seeing the Future
Exploring Presentiment with Eye Gaze and Pupillary and Eye Dilation
Presentiment study using pupil dilation and eye-gaze.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2006
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Bay Area Science and Spirit Dialogues
A Metanexus Local Societies Initiative
Dynamic community dialogues between scientists, scholars, and spiritual wisdom keepers at the interface of science and spirituality.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2005
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Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
A Triple-Blind Replication
Experimental test of the role of intention on water structure.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2005
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Chocolate and Mood
Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
Experimental test of the role of intention on food (chocolate).
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2005
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Quantum Optics
Is Psi a type of Knowledge?
Mind-matter interaction study using an optical system.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2004
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FRED
Field Consciousness
A software application to collect data from random number generators for "field consciousness" research.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2003
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The Legacy of Transformation
A Gathering of Psychedelic Elders
This project sought to identify new approaches to the therapuetic and transformational use of psychedelic substances by convening and interviewing researchers who stood at the frontiers of this field.
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2002
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Science and Spiritual Healing III
Bridging Worlds and Filling Gaps
Science and Spiritual Healing III: Bridging Worlds and Filling Gaps was held in Kona, Hawaii on November 29 - December 3, 2001. This was the third in a series of conferences examining scientific research on spiritual healing practices and related areas. The first conference was held at Harvard in 1997 and the second at Wake Forest University in 2000
- Intramural
- Completed
- Started 2001