Research Topics

Alien Abductions

Atheism and Religion

Consciousness

Drugs

Free Will

Lucid Dreams

Memes

Near-Death Experiences

Out-of-body Experiences

Paranormal Belief

Parapsychology

Zen and Meditation

Skeptic trumps
see the full deck

Spirit And Sky Top Spiritual Site 2005

In the media

Blog at the Guardian's CommentisFree

New  

Lecture at TAM - The Amazing Meeting. July 2013. Watch 'Fighting the Fakers - and Failing'

Debate with Deepak Chopra at Towards a Science of Consciousness, TSC Tucson April 2012.
Watch the video.

Read the CommentisFree Guardian blog with hundreds of comments or the TenZen blog and Psychology Today blog.

Anorexia ...
You can read about Emily and her anorexia in the Mail, on ABC News, in her blog, and in mine at CiF.

The third Replicator - Temes

Watch my TED talk now with subtitles in 23 other languages and reworked to the Moonlight Sonata! Or read the book chapter or Feature article in New Scientist  

To find out about me :
Who am I? or  CV

See books & online papers in Publications

Watch and listen to podcasts

You might like to know: 
Why I gave up parapsychology
Why I left my job
Why I support the legalization of drugs

Read my Guardian blog - Commentisfree

Consciousness
New book chapter Turning on the light to see how the darkness looks, 2012

Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Video of Lecture at the Skeptics Conference 2005

Books on Consciousness :
Consciousness: An Introduction 2nd edition 2011 and 
A very short introduction to consciousness.
Conversations on Consciousness (now also in Spanish)

Articles
She won't be me in JCS Special Singularity issue 2012
and conference  video
The grand illusion; New Scientist, 2002
There is no stream of consciousness JCS 2002

Zen
Zen and the Art of Consciousness  Published April 2011 (previously Ten Zen Questions)
Read Chapters 1 to 8, Join in the Ten Zen Blog
or my Psychology Today blog
or for more see Zen

Free will
Lecture 'Living without free will'; British Humanist Annual Conference 2013

'Did I get here of my own free will?' Science and Cocktails, Copenhagen, 19 March 2013 video  and an interview.

The Edge Question 2013
What should we be worried about?
My response "Losing our hands"
Also see previous Edge questions

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