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Approaches to Conciousness: The Marriage of Science and Mysticism

Lancaster, Brian, Professor MSc PhD AFBPsS CPsychol

Professor Brian L. Lancaster, MSc, PhD, AFBPsS, CPsychol , is Emeritus Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at Manchester University, and part of the Adjunct Faculty at Sofia University and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is […]

Board & Officers

The policies and direction of the SMN, are the responsibility of a Board of up to twelve Directors. The directors are chosen by being recommended by subscription members of the SMN at their members AGM, which takes place at the Annual Gathering in July. The Board then ratifies new directors. […]

The Burden of Disorders of the Brain

From ‘Recent Developments in Science and Medicine’ by Marilyn Monk. Network Review 107, Winter 2011 It appears that more than a third of people in Europe (164.8 million persons) suffer from mental disorders and only a quarter of these receive help. Wittchen and collaborators (Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, […]

An Introduction to Neural Networks

Gurney, Kevin, Professor PhD MSc

Professor Kevin Gurney, MSc, PhD is co-leader of the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, where he focuses on computational modeling but interacts with, and supports, experimental work in human psychophysics, neuroscience and robotics. One of the hallmarks of his research is building models at different levels of description: from individual conductance-based neurons, […]

The End of Modern Medicine: Biomedical Science Under a Microscope (SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)

Foss, Laurence

Professor Laurence Foss received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1968 and taught philosophy at Fordham University in New York, 1967-1970. Uncomfortable with the philosophical foundations of Western philosophy, medicine, and art, for years he sought unsuccessfully for categories that would enable him to express this […]

The Concise NHS Handbook 2013/14

Davies, Peter, Dr. PhD

Dr. Peter Davies MA, PhD graduated in engineering from Cambridge University in 1973 and did his PhD in biomedical engineering at McGill University in Canada. He then worked as a computer systems analyst before switching career to pursue an interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). In 1987, he was invited […]

Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games: The Legacy of John S Nicolis

Basios, Vasilieios, Dr. PhD

Dr. Vasileios Basios PhD spent his formative years working within the team of Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine at the Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry at the University of Brussels. Then after a short research post in the Belgian Royal Meteorological Service he became a senior researcher at the Physics Department […]

Exploring God-Talk: Using Language in Religion (Exploring Faith - Theology for Life)

Astley, Jeff, Professor, PhD

Professor Jeff Astley has been an honorary lecturer in the University of Durham since 1981, Honorary Professorial Fellow in Practical Theology and Christian Education since 1997, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion since 2012. He read Natural Sciences (specializing in the biological sciences) and then Theology at […]