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Research Topics

 

All my books and articles are listed at Publications
People often ask me what to read on a particular subject. Here are some suggestions.

 

Alien abductions

Blackmore,S.J. 1994 Alien abduction. New Scientist, 19 November, 29-31. (Cover Story)
Blackmore,S.J. 1998 Abduction by aliens or sleep paralysis? Skeptical Inquirer, 22, 23-28 or see SI version

Atheism and Religion

New information to be added soon

Consciousness

Video of my lecture on the Illusion of Consciousness at the Skeptics conference 2005

Blackmore, S. 2005 Conversations on Consciousness, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Blackmore, S. 2005 A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness, Oxford, Oxford University Press

Blackmore, S. 2003 Consciousness: An Introduction, London, Hodder & Stoughton and 2004 New York, Oxford University Press

Blackmore,S.J. (2002) What is consciousness? In H. Swain (Ed) Big Questions in Science, London, Jonathan Cape, 39-43

Blackmore,S.J. (2002) There is no stream of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 17-28  

Blackmore, S. 2002 The grand illusion: Why consciousness only exists when you look for it.  New Scientist, 22.6.02, 26-29 (cover story)

Drugs

The drug problem is one of the most serious issues facing our society today. The problem is prohibition and the solution is control and regulation - in other words full legalisation with appropriate controls. I am delighted to be a patron of Transform, the campaign for the legalisation of drugs. Here are some of the things I have broadcast or written on drugs. 

Farewell Albert Hoffman - see my blog

Smoke and mirrors, Guardian blog - Comment is Free, 20 July 2007

Don't Just Say No, Guardian blog - Comment is Free, 27 April 2007

Thought for the Day, Radio Bristol, 29 January 2007

Talking Point: An interview with Torsten Passie, New Scientist 15 April 2006, p 50

"Take a trip to ease your final journey" THES February 2006

"I take illegal drugs for inspiration" Saturday Telegraph, pp 17-18, 21 May 2005 
full text.

My experience with Salvia -  "First voyages with Salvia Divinorum". Entheogen Review, 14, 102-3, 2005

BBC Radio 4's "From this moment on - the first trip" a New Year's Day programme about the history of LSD. 1.1.05. I discussed my own experiences with LSD as well as some of the science behind its effects.

A window on the mind. New Scientist, 13 November 2004 p 36 
(a box inside "The Intoxication Instinct" by Helen Phillips and Graham Lawton)

BBC Radio 4 The Eureka years: 1938. Interview on LSD with Adam Hart-Davis. 30.10.04

Read more of my work on drugs

Free Will

Blackmore, S.J. (2007)  In The Myth of Free Will, Ed. Cris Evatt, Cafe Essays, Princeville, HI, Foreword (ix-xiv) and Living Happily and Morally (49-51)

Blackmore, S.J. (2005) It is possible to live happily and morally without believing in free will. In What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty. Ed. John Brockman, Free Press, 41-2
Reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ed. D. Eggers Houghton Mifflin 2006 p 14-15.

Lucid Dreams

Blackmore,S.J. 1991 Lucid Dreams Skeptical Inquirer 15 362-370

Memes

Blackmore, S. 1999 The Meme Machine , Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press

There is a complete list of publications on memes at my memetics site

Near-Death Experiences

Blackmore,S.J. 1991 Near-Death Experiences: In or out of the body? Skeptical Inquirer 16 34-45

Out-of-body Experiences

Blackmore,S.J. 1984b  A psychological theory of the OBE Journal of Parapsychology 48 201-218 PDF Also reprinted, with new postscript, in Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out of Body and Near Death Experiences. Ed: Craig D. Murray. NY Nova, 2009

See my own 1970 experience posted at Charles Tart's TASTE site http://www.issc-taste.org/arc/dbo.cgi?set=expom&id=00075&ss=1

Paranormal belief

"Giving up ghosts and gods", In Voices of Disbelief, Ed. Russell Blackford and Udo Schuklenk

Blackmore,S.J. 1992 Psychic Experiences: Psychic Illusions Skeptical Inquirer 16 367-376

Blackmore,S.J. and Troscianko,T.S. 1985 Belief in the Paranormal: Probability judgements, illusory control and the "chance baseline shift" British Journal of Psychology 76 459-468

Parapsychology

Blackmore, S. (2009) What have you changed your mind about? Today's leading minds rethink everything, Ed. John Brockman, Harper Perenniel  pp 18-20 my response to the Edge Question 2008

Blackmore, S. 1996 In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, ISBN1-57392-061-4. 

Blackmore, S. and Hart-Davis, A. 1995 Test Your Psychic Powers London, Thorsons

Blackmore,S.J. 1987 The elusive open mind: Ten years of negative research in parapsychology The Skeptical Inquirer 11 244-255

 

Zen and meditation

There is a complete list of my publications related to Zen, Buddhism and meditation at Zen

 

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