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Hockney, Psychophysics, Absolute Einstein?

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Hockney, Psychophysics, Angels; and Free Will and Will to Power, Don’t Listen to Your Professor

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Hockney, Free Will and Will to Power, Don’t Listen to Your Professor

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Hockney, The Omega Point, The Soul and God

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (Harper & Brothers, 1959)

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David Sumantry and Kathleen E. Stewart, “Meditation, Mindfulness, and Attention: A Meta-Analysis,” Mindfulness 12, no. 6 (2021): 1332–49, puts generalized attention at g = 0.171

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Hockney, The God Equation, Euler’s Divine Joke

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C. G. Jung and W. Pauli, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche (Pantheon, 1955)

Harald Atmanspacher, “Dual-Aspect Monism à la Pauli and Jung,” Journal of Consciousness Studies 19, nos. 9–10 (2012): 96–120. Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field. The lineage drawn between them is the author’s

Aleister Crowley, Book 4 (Liber ABA), Part II (Wieland & Co., 1913), footnote at “Ceremonial Magick”

Magick in Theory and Practice (Book 4, Part III) (Lecram Press, 1929)

Sinclair, Transcendental Magic

Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (published by the author, 1913), “Sigils. Belief with Protection”

Sinclair, Transcendental Magic, The Splinters

C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (Pantheon, 1963), “Confrontation with the Unconscious”

C. G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus, ed. Sonu Shamdasani (W. W. Norton, 2009)

Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ch. VI; and The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Collected Works 8, trans. R. F. C. Hull, “The Transcendent Function,” ¶¶184, 186

C. G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Collected Works 12, 2nd ed., trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton University Press, 1968), ¶44

Psychological Types, CW 6, trans. H. G. Baynes, rev. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton University Press, 1971), "Definitions," ¶791

Stark, The Book of Mind

Alan Watts, “Veil of Thoughts,” in Alan Watts Being in the Way, ep. 10 (Be Here Now Network / Alan Watts Organization). Watts’s own formulation runs the other way: we speak of falling in love, never of rising into it

Empedocles, DK 31 B17, in John Burnet, trans., Early Greek Philosophy, 3rd ed. (A. & C. Black, 1920), ch. V

Hockney, The Mathmos, The Two Worlds and the Truth, and Living Reason

Sten Ternström, “Perceptual Evaluations of Voice Scatter in Unison Choir Sounds,” Journal of Voice 7, no. 2 (1993): 129–35

Julius O. Smith III, Physical Audio Signal Processing (W3K Publishing, 2010), “Chorus Effect.” The structural reading is my own

Stark, The Book of Mind, The Soul Game

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Larry J. Young and Zuoxin Wang, “The Neurobiology of Pair Bonding,” Nature Neuroscience 7, no. 10 (2004): 1048–54

Gary L. Nuechterlein and Robert W. Storer, “The Pair-Formation Displays of the Western Grebe,” The Condor 84, no. 4 (1982): 351–69, at 356

Ruth Feldman, Romi Magori-Cohen, Giora Galili, Magi Singer, and Yoram Louzoun, “Mother and Infant Coordinate Heart Rhythms through Episodes of Interaction Synchrony,” Infant Behavior and Development 34, no. 4 (2011): 569–577

Kaspar Schindler, Howan Leung, Christian E. Elger, and Klaus Lehnertz, “Assessing Seizure Dynamics by Analysing the Correlation Structure of Multichannel Intracranial EEG,” Brain 130, no. 1 (2007): 65–77

Premysl Jiruska, Marco de Curtis, John G. R. Jefferys, Catherine A. Schevon, Steven J. Schiff, and Kaspar Schindler, “Synchronization and Desynchronization in Epilepsy: Controversies and Hypotheses,” Journal of Physiology 591, no. 4 (2013): 787–97

Stark, Castalia, The Opposites of Rationalism

Rollo May, Love and Will (W. W. Norton, 1969), ch. 1, 29

Leibniz, letter to Louis Bourguet

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)

Taylor’s own précis, “Buffered and Porous Selves,” The Immanent Frame, September 2, 2008

E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (University of California Press, 1951), ch. 1

Fadiman and Gruber, Your Symphony of Selves

Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy (Thorntree Press, 2020), ch. 9

Hockney, All the Rest Is Propaganda, The Silent God. The reconstruction of the term as unconditional comprehension is my own

Mantak Chia, in “The Sexual Technique That Doubles Your Mind Power,” Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey, episode 717 (July 2, 2020), quoted from the published episode notes. For the modern reception, see Dave Asprey, “The Biohacker’s Guide to Better Sex,” daveasprey.com (2019)

Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Hominization” (1923), collected in The Vision of the Past, trans. J. M. Cohen (Collins/Harper & Row, 1966); the term was developed jointly with Édouard Le Roy and Vladimir Vernadsky

J. Cobb Scott et al., “A Quantitative Meta-Analysis of Neurocognitive Functioning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” Psychological Bulletin 141, no. 1 (2015): 105–140

A. Baldacchino et al., “Neuropsychological Consequences of Chronic Opioid Use: A Quantitative Review and Meta-Analysis,” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 36, no. 9 (2012): 2056–2068

Heraclitus, fragment DK 22 B2 (cf. B1), in Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (Cambridge University Press, 1979), fragment III, 29

Plato, Republic III–IV, and the Pythagorean tradition

1 Corinthians 12:12–14 (cf. Romans 12:4–5), the many members and one body

Scholem, Major Trends, seventh lecture

Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (Houghton Mifflin, 1933)

Vine Deloria Jr., God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th anniversary ed. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2003; first published 1973)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the characteristica universalis; “let us calculate” as translated in

Bertrand Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz (Cambridge University Press, 1900), 169–170

Pascal Fries, “A Mechanism for Cognitive Dynamics: Neuronal Communication through Neuronal Coherence,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9, no. 10 (2005): 474–480

Francisco Varela, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Eugenio Rodriguez & Jacques Martinerie, “The Brainweb: Phase Synchronization and Large-Scale Integration,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2, no. 4 (2001): 229–239

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762), Book II, ch. 3, trans. G. D. H. Cole; for the reading of that general will as pure syntax, see note 4 above

Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Hashmi & Thomas W. Malone, “Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups,” Science 330, no. 6004 (2010): 686–688

Scott S. Wiltermuth & Chip Heath, “Synchrony and Cooperation,” Psychological Science 20, no. 1 (2009): 1–5

Scott S. Wiltermuth, “Synchronous Activity Boosts Compliance with Requests to Aggress,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48, no. 1 (2012): 453–456

Ivana Konvalinka et al., “Synchronized Arousal between Performers and Related Spectators in a Fire-Walking Ritual,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 20 (2011): 8514–8519

Greg J. Stephens, Lauren J. Silbert & Uri Hasson, “Speaker–Listener Neural Coupling Underlies Successful Communication,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 32 (2010): 14425–14430

Suzanne Dikker et al., “Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Tracks Real-World Dynamic Group Interactions in the Classroom,” Current Biology 27, no. 9 (2017): 1375–1380

Tanya Stivers et al., “Universals and Cultural Variation in Turn-Taking in Conversation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, no. 26 (2009): 10587–10592

Björn Vickhoff et al., “Music Structure Determines Heart Rate Variability of Singers,” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (2013): 334

Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, “Hyperscanning: Beyond the Hype,” Neuron 109, no. 3 (2021): 404–407

Bessel A. van der Kolk, Hilary Hodgdon, Mark Gapen, et al., “A Randomized Controlled Study of Neurofeedback for Chronic PTSD,” PLOS ONE 11, no. 12 (2016): e0166752

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Laszlo, Science and the Akashic Field, chs. 1 and 4, “In-formation in Nature”

From the author’s filmed conversation with Ervin Laszlo for the Upshift Conversations series (hosted by Ken D. Foster); recounted here from the author’s own recollection of the exchange

Conclave, directed by Edward Berger, screenplay by Peter Straughan, from the novel by Robert Harris (2024)

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, “A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications,” Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 190 (2024): 28–169; the running count reflects the continually updated resource, Closer To Truth’s Landscape of Consciousness (closertotruth.com)

Mark L. Johnson, Eugenia Bodenhamer-Davis, Laurie J. Bailey, and Michael S. Gates, “Spectral Dynamics and Therapeutic Implications of the Theta/Alpha Crossover in Alpha-Theta Neurofeedback,” Journal of Neurotherapy 17, no. 1 (2013): 3–34

Thilo Hinterberger, Stephanie Schmidt, Tsutomu Kamei, and Harald Walach, “Decreased Electrophysiological Activity Represents the Conscious State of Emptiness in Meditation,” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): 99

Philip Charles Lucas, “Non-Traditional Modern Advaita Gurus,” Nova Religio 17, no. 3 (2014)

B. Alan Wallace, “A Mindful Balance: What Did the Buddha Really Mean by ‘Mindfulness’?” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Spring 2008

Stark, The Book of Mind

Kelsey Thomas and Imants Barušs, “Psychological Characteristics and State Integration of a Persistent Altered State of Consciousness Following an Eighteen Week Self-Development Course,” Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 9, no. 4 (2022): 379–405

Jeffery A. Martin, “Clusters of Individuals Experiences Form a Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults,” CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century 8, no. 8 (2020): Article 1

René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Orbis Books, 2001)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Procatechesis 12, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd ser., vol. 7

Fifth Lateran Council, Session 8 (19 December 1513), Apostolici regiminis, in Norman P. Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (Georgetown University Press, 1990)