Jeffery A. Martin

Transformative Technology Lab

Persistent forms of nondual awareness, enlightenment, mystical experience, and so forth (Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience) have been reported since antiquity. Though sporadic research has been performed on these experiences, the scientific literature has yet to report a large-scale cognitive psychology study of this population. Method: Assessment...

Objective: This study examined the effects of a comprehensive mind-body program on sense of nondual awareness and spiritual awakening. Design and intervention: The study compared the effects of participation in an intensive 6-day Ayurveda-based mind-body program that addressed physical, emotional, and spiritual domains as compared with a control...

Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference. Tucson, AZ

Persistent forms of nondual awareness, enlightenment, mystical experience, and so forth (Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience) have been reported since antiquity. Though sporadic research has been performed on them, the research reported here represents the initial report from the first larger scale cognitive psychology study of this population. Meth...

Interactive video games have become one of the most engaging forms of media today. Although video games are predominantly used as a form of entertainment, they are finding other application areas including education and training ( serious games). The interactive and engaging nature of video games also makes them an ideal platform for creating exper...

Non-symbolic experiences have been reported for millennia and generally attributed to spiritual and religious contexts, although atheists and agnostics also report them. Popular terms for them include: nondual awareness, enlightenment, mystical experiences , peak experiences, transcendental experience , the peace that passeth understanding, unity c...

The mixed methods community could represent a significant opportunity to place Integral Theory at the very heart of the academy. Methodological communities often define what is and is not acceptable within academic research. Soon, the mixed methods community will need to move beyond designs involving a relatively small number of intra-study methods...

This paper examines the concept of power of thought in relation to a selection of current theories within quantum mechanics, from a layperson’s perspective. Power of thought is defined as the purported ability to directly transform thought into an effect on temporal reality without further physical-level action, and with these transformations being...