INTEGRAL STUDIES and TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

On-Line Summary of Ken Wilber's Psychological Model: wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/psych_model/psych_model1.cfm

California Institute of Integral Studies: www.ciis.edu

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology: www.itp.edu

MEDITATION - Practical

Vipassana Meditation: www.dhamma.org

The Council on Spiritual Practices: www.csp.org

David Lukoff's on-line Internet Guided Learning Meditation in Clinical Practice Course: www.virtualcs.com/meditat/meditattoc.html

Around San Diego

Deer Park Monastery - Thich Nhat Hanh's meditation center in Escondido: www.plumvillage.org

Tibetan Healing Center: www.tibetanacademy.org/

MEDITATION - Research

Mind and Life Institute: www.mindandlife.org/

The Mind and Life Institute has organized bi-annual meetings between top neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and the Dalai Lama and other buddhist scholars for the last 15 years -- see paper in Science about the most recent, held at MIT here

MEDICAL/HEALTH

Holistic and Integrative Medicine Student Group (HI-Med) at UC San Diego School of Medicine: cyberdev.ucsd.edu/groups/hi-med

CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH

Science and Consciousness Review: www.sci-con.org

Pubmed: On-line references to articles published in the biomedical literature with a very good search engine: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

David Chalmer's at UA on Consciousness:

    Bibliography (fairly comprehensive through 1999 only): www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio/6.html

    On-line papers on consciousness: www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html

The Heffter Research Institute (funding neuroscientific studies of hallucinogens): www.heffter.org

FRIENDS IN SCIENCE

Olivia Carter -- Binocular rivalry and it's relation to altered states of consciousness as seen with psilocybin, meditation, psychiatric disorders

Arnaud DeLorme -- EEG analysis techniques focusing on ICA (Independent Component Analysis), also a meditator and very caring father

Alex Holcombe -- Visual psychophysics

Eric Shrader-Frechette -- Retinal ganglion cell visual information processing

THESIS ADVISORS

Mark Geyer -- Animal models of psychiatric disease, focused on sensory gating, neuropharmacology, and genetic receptor manipulation

Steven Hillyard -- Neurophysiology of attention

Martin Paulus -- fMRI studies of psychiatric disorders and drug addiction

Jaime Pineda -- EEG/ERP studies: psychopharmacology, brain-computer interface, and attention

John Polich -- EEG/ERP studies in neuropharmacology and P300 guru

Vilayanur Ramachandran -- Psychophyics, synesthesia, phantom limbs, neural plasticity

Franz Vollenweider -- Neurophysiology of hallucinogens and altered states of consciousness