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Anthony Atkinson, lecturer in psychology, Durham University: 1
Ian Baker, postgraduate researcher, Koestler Parapsychology Unit, Edinburgh: 4
Susan Blackmore, visiting lecturer, psychology, University of West England: 1
William Braud, professor, Global Programs, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology: 5
Jean Burns, physicist, founding editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies: 2
Roger Carpenter, reader in oculomotor physiology, University of Cambridge: 1
Chris Clarke, visiting professor of applied mathematics, University of Southampton: 3
Ralph Ellis, professor of philosophy, Clark Atlanta University: 1
David Fontana, visiting professor of transpersonal psychology, John Moores University: 5
Christopher French, professor of psychology, University of London: 2
Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences, president, Parapsychological Association: 5
Marilyn Schlitz, director of research, Institute of Noetic Sciences: 4
Stefan Schmidt, Institute of Environmental Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg: 2
Max Velmans, professor of psychology, University of London: 3
12. Rupert Sheldrake, “Research on the Feeling of Being Stared At,” Skeptical Inquirer, March/April 2000, 58–61.
13. Daryl J. Bem and Charles Honorton, “Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer,” Psychological Bulletin 115 (1994): 4–18.
14. Ray Hyman, “Anomaly or Artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton,” Psychological Bulletin 115 (1994): 19–24.
15. Julie Milton and Richard Wiseman, “Does Psi Exist? Lack of Replication of an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer,” Psychological Bulletin 125, no. 4 (July 1999): 387–91.
16. Daryl J. Bem, “Response to Hyman,” Psychological Bulletin 15, no. 1 (1994): 25–27.
17. Provided at Hameroff’s Web page: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/.
18. Information about the film may be accessed at http://www.whatthebleep.com/.
19. I heard Gell-Mann use this term in the 1980s after he delivered a lecture by this title at Caltech, and it has caught on ever since. Because he earned his Nobel Prize in quantum physics he is eminently qualified to so judge claims made on its behalf.
20. Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, “Orchestrated Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules: A Model for Consciousness,” in Toward a Science of Consciousness—The First Tucson Discussions and Debates, ed. S. R. Hameroff, A. W. Kaszniak, and A. C. Scott (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996), 507–40.
21. Victor Stenger, The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995).
22. J. E. Whinnery and A. M. Whinnery, “Acceleration-Induced Loss of Consciousness: A Review of 500 Episodes,” Archives of Neurology 47 (1990): 764–76.
23. K. Augustine, “Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features,” Journal of Near-Death Studies 26, no. 1 (2007): 3–31.
24. James E. Whinnery, “Psychophysiologic Correlates of Unconsciousness and Near-Death Experiences,” Journal of Near-Death Studies 15, no. 4 (1997): 231–58.
25. J. E. Whinnery, “Technique for Simulating G-Induced Tunnel Vision,” Aviation and Space Environmental Medicine 50 (1979): 1076.
26. David E. Comings, Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? (Duarte, Calif.: Hope Press, 2008).
27. O. Blanke, S. Ortigue, T. Landis, and M. Seeck, “Neuropsychology: Stimulating Illusory Own-body Perceptions,” Nature 419 (September 19, 2002): 269–70.
28. Newberg, Aquili, and Rause, Why God Won’t Go Away.
29. Cosimo Urgesi, Salvatore M. Aglioti, Miran Skrap, and Franco Fabbro, “The Spiritual Brain: Selective Cortical Lesions Modulate Human Self-Transcendence,” Neuron 65, no. 3 (2010): 309–19.
30. P. V. Lommel, R. V. Wees, V. Meyers, and I. Elfferich, “Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands,” Lancet 358, no. 9298 (2001): 2039.
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