White Robed Monks of St. Benedict

2009 Science and Nonduality Conference Research Abstracts

Table of Contents/Index

Field Index to topics below:

1.0000 Philosophy
2.0000 Experiential Approaches and Spiritual Paths
3.0000 Culture and Humanities
4.0000 Cognitive Sciences and Psychology
5.0000 Neuroscience
6.0000 Physical and Biological Sciences
7.0000 Experiential

1.0000 Philosophy
1.0100 Advaita-Vedanta

• 1.0101 No-mind and No-brain? Examining the Advaita Vedanta notion of consciousness
• 1.0102 The traditional teaching of Advaita
• 1.0103 The logical structure of consciousness under mental monism
• 1.0104 Revolutionary Nondualism
• 1.0105 Trauma, Body, Energy, and Non-Duality
• 1.0106 Nisargadatta Maharaj: Advaita-Vedanta and the role of science

1.0200 Behaviorism
1.0300 Buddhist Philosophy

• 1.0301 Consciousness, Compassion and Transcendence in Science and Buddhism

1.0400 Consciousness

• 1.0401 A Digital Solution to the Mind/Body Problem
• 1.0402 Theory of Consciousness Theory of Knowledge
• 1.0403 Higher states as a figure-ground switch between the "I" and the world of objects
• 1.0404 Applications of an Integrated Mind-Body Model of Consciousness
• 1.0405 In the end there can be only one: The Third Scientific Revolution as a synthesis of dualities
• 1.0406 Whitehead on Autopilot: Surveying Hameroffs Conscious Pilot Program in the Capacity of (ANWs) Actual Entities and Stapp's Reconciliation with rQFT
• 1.0407 The Enlightened Dualist Approach to Monism: The Consciousness Trail from Qualia to Quanta
• 1.0408 We are our architecture - the material world and how it is part of our consciousness
• 1.0409 An invitation to Quantum Activism
• 1.0410 Dualism and Phenomenology of Sensations
• 1.0411 A logical explanation of why a mystical experience occurs and how it can be attained
• 1.0412 Duality / Non-Duality - The next level of human consciousness
• 1.0413 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Science, Eight (8) States of Consciousness and Quantum Models
• 1.0414 Subjective Consciousness Science and Objective Science Consciousness, what difference may each make?
• 1.0415 Building a bridge over the explanatory gap: An engineering approach towards creating a metaphor to link the phenomenal world to the physical world
• 1.0416 Consciousness matters: Mapping the process of transformation and non dual awareness
• 1.0417 Taking non-dualism seriously: Quantum mechanics, yogis, qualia, and the need for empirical evidence
• 1.0418 Quantum Theory of What?
• 1.0419 Quantum NonDuality

1.0500 Cosmology

• 1.0501 The Anthropic Cosmological Timeline Is Basis for The Science of Nonduality
• 1.0502 Based on the recently published book by Duane Elgin, The Living Universe: Where are we? Who are we? Where are we going? The view of a non-living universe has led to rampant materialism and environment
• 1.0503 Existence and Non-Existence as Relation in a Self-Similar Space-Time Cosmology
• 1.0504 Non-duality: The Ultimate Reality
• 1.0505 True Nature: An Experiential Exploration of the Boundary Where Spirit and Matter Meet

1.0600 Deconstruction
1.0700 Eastern philosophy
1.0800 Emptiness

• 1.0801 Joyful irony and western emptiness teachings

1.0900 Enlightenment/Liberation/Realization

• 1.0901 What Enlightenment Means: A Qualitative Study of Nondual Consciousness as Experienced by Teachers of Nondual Mysticism
• 1.0902 The #1 stumbling block to nondual realization
• 1.0903 Spaciousness and the Phenomenal World of Enlightenment: A Heuristic-phenomenological Inquiry

1.1000 Epistemology and Knowledge

• 1.1001 On acquaintance with oneself
• 1.1002 The nondual foundations of science

1.1100 Free will and Nonduality

• 1.1101 Ramana Maharshi and Einstein both said "Everything is (Predetermined" — Does contemporary science support such a controversial proposition?

1.1200 Hermeneutics
1.1300 Idealism
1.1400 Language and Nonduality

• 1.1401 Approaching non-duality via metaphor creation
• 1.1402 Laws of Form and the Logic of Non-Duality
• 1.1403 Where do our ideas come from? - An exploration of creativity, non-duality and the sacred.
• 1.1404 Folk theory of nondual enlightenment

1.1500 Materialism and Nonduality

• 1.1501 Strengthening opposites (duality) may help the realization of nondual awareness
• 1.1502 Divinity — Representation of Supra Mental Patterns
• 1.1503 What is consciousness in both material duality and immaterial nonduality settings?

1.1600 Miscellaneous
1.1700 NeoAdvaita
1.1800 Nondual Inquiry

• 1.1801 Into the light: Seeing through identifications and the realization of oneness - The role of individual sessions
• 1.1802 The Myth Or Seeing
• 1.1803 Who Wants to Know? Earnest Self-Inquiry in Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta
• 1.1804 "The Meaning of Life in 13 Minutes" A short humorous film about the origins of the persistent illusion of separation and some of its implications
• 1.1805 "The End of the Fairy Tale and Trie Beginning of Happily Ever After, A Nondual Exploration of Romantic Relationship
• 1.1806 Nonduality and tarot divination: A convergence in TNP
• 1.1807 Relaxation: the royal road to non-duality in a three level model of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy
• 1.1808 What is the reality of our experience? Francis Lutille

1.1900 Personal Identity and Nonduality

• 1.1901 Authenticity and the Play of Unconditioned Presence in Psychotherapy
• 1.1902 Lucid Living: Waking up to oneness and celebrating separateness
• 1.1903 The Man In Trie Maze: Masculine Spirituality, Balance and Meaning
• 1.1904 Logic, Nature and the Town Council

1.2000 Philosophy (Eastern)

• 1.2001 Varieties of Nonduality
• 1.2002 Spirit and Matter: A Graded Reality not Duality

1.2100 Philosophy (Western)

• 1.2101 Science and spirituality: A relational model for exploring the nature of reality and bridging dualisms
• 1.2102 From the Fieldpath to the Forest Clearing Where Nothing Nothings and We are Not: "Explorations into Martin Heidegger's Concepts in Light of Nondual Teaching of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj."
• 1.2103 Non-Duality in the Platonist Tradition (Plato, Plotinus, Hegel, Emerson, and the Romantic Poets)
• 1.2104 The Phenomenological Self

1.2200 Postmodern Approaches

• 1.2201 Non-Dual Economics, or "How Money Surfs the Collapse of the Quantum Wave Function: a Multi-Disciplinary, Mystical, and Activist Perspective."

1.2300 The Concept of Nonduality

• 1.2301 A Sufi perspective on "non-duality"
• 1.2302 Stumbling into Nonduality
• 1.2303 Not-duality is not the same as Non-Duality
• 1.2304 Visions of Nonduality and Quantum Consciousness in William James' "Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide"
• 1.2305 VThe way of unification: A dialog with non-duality

2.0000 Experiential Approaches and Spiritual Paths
2.0100 Advaita-Vedanta

• 2.010 The epistemology of non-dual knowledge

2.0200 Buddhism
2.0300 Christianity

• 2.0301 The Compassion Practice: A Christian contemplative path to non-dualistic experience

2.0400 Consciousness and Awareness

• 2.0401 Towards A Unified Field Theory of Human Behavior - Global Cultural Evolution
• 2.0402 The Frame(s) Problem and the Physical and Emotional Basis of Human Cognition
• 2.0403 Non-Dual Awareness and the Resolution of Afflictive States
• 2.0404 The synthesis of the relations: a way for the nonduality
• 2.0405 The Natural Unfolding of the Psychotherapy Process Into Non Duality: The Plane of Immanence Becoming Manifest
• 2.0406 The Neural Basis of the "I"
• 2.0407 Can we talk together? Understanding the nature of scientific and spiritual discourse
• 2.0408 Authentic Movement: Embodying the roles of Mover and Witness allows for the possibility of non-dual experience.
• 2.0409 Embracing the unknown. A mother's sacred journey from grief to healing
• 2.0410 Vedic approach in solving the mystery of consciousness
• 2.0411 Return to the source
• 2.0412 The Taste of Eternity: Art, Creativity and Non-duality
• 2.0413 The Science of The Source: Yoga with Quantum Physics combined in a unique way by using The Hologram theory to put forward The Theory of Everything
• 2.0414 Active Attention and The Mystery of Presence: Using Movement Meditation and Gurdjieff Bodymind Exercises to Re-enter the Mystic Field of Nonduality

2.0500 Devotional approaches

• 2.0501 Beat and off-beat, tuned and de-tuned: Complex oneness through Kundalini- Tantra devotional

2.0600 Doership/Nondoership
2.0700 Emptiness Teachings

• 2.0701 Beyond the beyond: the question of suffering in nondual therapies
• 2.0702 Integration of non-duality and non-locality

2.0800 Enlightenment/Liberation/Realization

• 2.0801 Sweet silence, listening, spiritually: Towards a worldview
• 2.0802 Realization Process: Nonduality, Embodiment and Psychological Healing
• 2.0803 Waking up from the dream of separation

2.0900 Islam
2.1000 Judaism

• 2.101 Torah non-duality Henoch Dov

2.1100 Kabbala
2.1200 Meditation

• 2.1201 A survey of subjective experiences during Tantric yoga meditation
• 2.1202 Bridging Worlds: A collaborative between a university scholar and a teacher of sacred dance, with methodological issues and results of a phenomenological study

2.1300 Miscellaneous
2.1400 Mysticism (Eastern)

• 2.1401 One Seamless Cosmic Web of the Unity of the One Doer of All Doings in Non-Doing Where Nothing Ever Happens

2.1500 Mysticism (Western)
2.1600 Neo-Advaita
2.1700 Nondual Inquiry

• 2.1701 Spontaneous evolution: Our non-dualistic future
• 2.1702 Body/Minding Hie Gap - A nondual, nonHumean solution involving the proprioceptive sense appplied to the Copernican and parallax problems of how a self-moving sentient body
• 2.1703 Seeing and Being Seen Through Love's Single Eye
• 2.1704 A Grounded Theory Investigation of Awakening/Realization in Direct Approaches active in a causally inter

2.1800 Pure Land Buddhism
2.1900 Satsang
2.2000 Shamanism

• 2.2001 Scientific shamanism is a multi-discipline approach to look at non-duality reality through the lens of Western scientific methodology instead of the unquestioning, though often effective, indigenous
• 2.2002 The Vine of the Dead: Shape Shifting the Western Psyche

2.2100 Spiritual Healing
2.2200 Sufism

• 2.2201 Discovering the infinite reality within the heart of the finite world

2.2300 Theravada
2.2400 Tibetan Buddhism
2.2500 Vajrayana/Tantra
2.2600 Vipassana/lnsight Meditation
2.2700 Zen

• 2.2701 PokerZen is as much a ceremony as any ZEN ritual, it is a carefully choreographed give-and take of power, rhythm, parry,thrust,withdrawal, and retreat. Mastery and virtuosity appear..

3.0000 Culture and Humanities
3.0100 Anthropology
3.0200 Art and aesthetics

• 3.0201 Aesthetic convergence: The attraction to nonduality in word and image
• 3.0202 Convergences: Hybridity and Metaphors of Consciousness

3.0300 Criticism
3.0400 Deconstruction
3.0500 Education

• 3.0501 Changing our Minds: Re-Forming Healthcare by Challenging Dualisms Embedded in Nursing Education
• 3.0502 Religion, Science, and Education: A Curriculum in Perennial Philosophy
• 3.0503 Beshara: An education in unity

3.0600 Ethics and Legal Studies
3.0700 Hermeneutics
3.0800 Information Technology
3.0900 Literary Criticism
3.1000 Miscellaneous
3.1100 Music
3.1200 Mythology
3.1300 Postmodern approaches
3.1400 Religion
3.1500 Sociology

4.0000 Cognitive Sciences and Psychology

• 4.0001 Applying the Principles of Non-Dualism in Psychotherapy

4.0100 Artificial intelligence; robotics

• 4.0101 Emotive Energy Behavioral Diagram - an integrated model of the brain/mind

4.0200 Cognitive architectures

• 4.0201 Embodied Realism and Perceptual Symbol Systems: Contributions to the Mind/Body Dilemma

4.0300 Cognitive development
4.0400 Emotion

• 4.0401 Holofeelings: Experiencing the Infinite World within You

4.0500 Ethology
4.0600 Implicit and explicit processes
4.0700 Intelligence and creativity

• 4.0701 Expressing the Self: Creative Onquiry and Exploration from a NondualPerspective

4.0800 Language
4.0900 Memory and learning
4.1000 Mental imagery

• 4.1001 How do we subjectively perceive 3D Shape? This study investigates the processes underlying the brain's ability to construct a 3D percept in our field of awareness

4.1100 Miscellaneous
4.1200 Neural networks and connectionism

• 4.1201 Biodynamic craniosacral therapy

4.1300 Positive Psychology

• 4.1301 Time to get serious: A call to finally begin empirically investigating nondual consciousness in a way that will be accepted in the academic mainstream
• 4.1302 Freeing the Dark Inside the Light

4.1400 Self-consciousness and Metacognition

• 4.1401 Kicking a bad habit
• 4.1402 Reconsidering Body: Recognizing and eliciting intelligence in both the personal body and larger systems
• 4.1403 The Relationship Between Experiencing Our True Nature and Psychological Healing Processes
• 4.1404 Science and Psychotherapy in the Play of Nonduality

4.1500 Sensory modalities

• 4.1501 Neural Correlates of Object Indeterminacy in Art Compositions

4.1600 Steep and dreaming
4.1700 Temporal consciousness
4.1800 Unconscious/conscious processes

5.0000 Neuroscience
5.0100 Anesthesia
5.0200 Cellular and sub-neural processes
5.0300 Emotion
5.0400 Memory and learning
5.0500 Miscellaneous
5.0600 Motor control
5.0700 Neural correlates of Nonduality

• 5.0701 A mathematical model of nonduality of mind and matter based on empirical findings
• 5.0702 Objective Psyche, Subjective Physics and Subjective Psyche
• 5.0703 Not-self in the brain
• 5.0704 Zero-lag alpha EEG phase synchrony during Transcendental Meditation: a portal to no n-dual quantum functioning
• 5.0705 Influence of Nondual Awareness on the Functioning of And-Correlated Intrinsic and Extrinsic Networks in the Brain
• 5.0706 The Interface of Neurological Studies and Nondual Experience
• 5.0707 Duality, nonduality, and neurotransmitter receptor systems: the architecture and evolution of the human heart and mind

5.0800 Neural synchrony and binding
5.0900 Neuropsychology and neuropathology
5.1000 Other sensory modalities
5.1100 Pharmacology
5.1200 Quantum neurodynamics
5.1300 Sleep and waking
5.1400 Specific brain areas

6.0000 Physical and Biological Sciences
6.0100 Altered states of nondual consciousness

• 6.0101 Psychedelics and Students: Motives, Methods, Meltdowns, and Mind-Manifesting Miracles
• 6.0102 Spontaneous waking lucidity during the ayahuasca shamanic journey
• 6.0103 Psychedelics as Entheogens: How to create and guide successful sessions.

6.0200 Anomalous experiences
6.0300 Bioelectromagnetics/resonance effects
6.0400 Biophysics and living processes

• 6.0401 Nonduality, singularity and a unified biological basis of two meditative traditions - meeting the gold Standard of science

6.0500 Emergent and hierarchical systems
6.0600 Evolution of consciousness
6.0700 Experiential Approaches

• 6.0701 Dream Jungle music performance by Dwight Loop, Taressa Bell, Ken Becker, Tierth
• 6.0702 Oneness Dancing - An Authentic Movement Workshop for therapists and others
• 6.0703 A Journey through Polarities to Nondual Identity: The Use of Guided Inquiry Patterns with Native American Youth
• 6.0704 Moving Beyond Polarity through Body Experience

6.0800 Integrative models

• 6.0801 "Radical" Non-Dualism: Creation and Integral God.

6.0900 Logic and computational theory
6.1000 Lucid dreaming

6.1100 Medicine and healing
6.1200 Meditation, contemplation

• 6.1201 Investigations of nondual awareness in brain, body, behavior, and everyday life

6.1300 Miscellaneous
6.1400 Mysticism
6.1500 Nonlinear dynamics
6.1600 Parapsychology
6.1700 Phenomenology

• 6.1701 The History of the "I"

6.1800 Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

• 6.1801 Transpersonal Presence in Psychotherapy
• 6.1802 Old bedfellows: A gay-centered depth psychological consideration of the archetype of non-duality in gay myth and history

6.1900 Quantum theory

• 6.1901 Wave-particle duality is illusory; only the wave function, with its particle-like properties, exists
• 6.1902 Quantum algorithms know in advance 50% of the solution of the problem they will find in the future
• 6.1903 Brahman and Atnian are alive and well in quantum spacetime geometry
• 6.1904 Does consciousness collapse the quantum wavefunction? Experiments with an optical double-slit system
• 6.1905 The duality of duality and non-duality
• 6.1906 Pseudoscience and Victor Stenger's Quantum Gods: Mistaken, Misinformed and Misleading
• 6.1907 Quantum Physics and the Non-Duality of Mind/Matter
• 6.1908 The Casimir force: Much ado about nothing
• 6.1909 Time and the unity of mind - A quantum field theoretic view

6.2000 Space and time
6.2100 Transpersonal and humanistic psychology

• 6.2101 Self-transcendence as a Measurable Transpersonal Construct
• 6.2102 Developmental Integral Psychology Goes Non-Dual
• 6.2103 Psy-Meteorology: Understanding the Weather of Your Heart/Making Peace With Feeling and Cycles in YourLife
• 6.2104 When the Bottom Drops Out: Encounters with the Groundless Ground in Psychotherapy
• 6.2105 The Art of Re»Patterning: Tuning into the Life Patterns and Person Epistemology of Clients from a Non-Dual Perspective

7.0000 Experiential
7.0100 Art

• 7.0101 "Transcendental Realism": An Introduction to the Nondual, Aperspectival GeometricArt Or Adi Da Samraj
• 7.0102 An inside nondual view or proprioception of seeing/notseeing during an episode of retinal vein thrombosis
• 7.0103 Visual Indeterminacy, art and non-dualistic perception

7.0200 Meditation

• 7.0201 Consciousness: Where Science and Spirituality Meet
• 7.0202 Mechanisms of action
• 7.0203 Ekstasis and (VR) Space: Nowhere, everywhere, elsewhere Meehae Song,

7.0300 Movement

• 7.0301 Biodanza, Dance of Life — Experiential workshop combining music, movement and relationship to provide a sense of oneness and wholeness
• 7.0302 Acro Yoga
• 7.0303 Quantum BioFeedback for the 21st Century: WOW Processing
• 7.0304 Breema: The Art of Being Present
• 7.0305 The Overarching Themes involved in understanding and observing patterns of human movement: Mobility/Stability, Inner/Outer, Function/Expression and Exertion/ Recuperation

7.0400 Music

• 7.0401 TaKeTiNa — experiencing duality through a rhythm process
• 7.0402 TransDance® with Heather Munro Pierce
• 7.0403 Hear and Heal - Experience firsthand Sound's tremendous Power to Transforms and Heal

7.0500 Other
7.0600 Self Expression