The history page of the Berkeley Psychic Institute was probably the part most relevant to my experience with their ideas. I am not familiar with what goes on there now. The history page seems to have been deleted...
You can find it in the Wayback Machine at:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970127094828/http://www.berkeleypsychic.com:80/history.html
(Looks like it was gradually de-emphasized after that 1997 capture...)
Wikipedia has a tiny bit of history, with a few links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Psychic_Institute
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Introduction,
Concept
Psychoros is a newly coined word, combining the Greek root "psyche" meaning "the soul, spirit, or mind of man"...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0073%3Aentry%3D%239752
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Introduction
... with the Greek root "choros" meaning "a place for dancing":
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23114469
(To see Latin characters, set Display Preferences -> Greek Display: to "Latin transliteration", then click Update Preferences.)
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Introduction
Koinônoi is the plural form...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=koinwnoi&la=greek
(To see Latin characters, set Display Preferences -> Greek Display: to "Latin transliteration", then click Update Preferences.)
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Introduction
... of "koinônos" which means "companion, partner, or fellow":
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=koinwnos&la=greek
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Introduction
All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art B.V., P.O. Box 101 3740 AC, Baarn, The Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. On the web at:
http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW410.jpg
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Concept
For an image of the grid used by Escher to create this lithograph, and details and images from a project that created a computerized version printable in variable dimensions and directions, see:
http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl
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Concept
Lots more geometric art, and a catalog of known optical illusions, at:
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Referenced from:
PsyBlog
An exploration of the sensation of itching, mechanisms of perception, phantom limbs, and V. S. Ramachandran's mirror box treatment, at:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
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PsyBlog
To understand the biological roots of conscious experience, we must first
understand the importance of the following principles:
a. We are not conscious unless we have an experience of something
somewhere in relation to our self.
b. Experiencing something somewhere requires an internal representation of our
surrounding 3D volumetric world from an egocentric perspective.
c. We have no sensory transducers that can detect the 3D volumetric space we
live in.
d. Therefore, the human brain must have an innate biological structure that can
provide us with a volumetric analog of our personal world from an egocentric
perspective.
http://people.umass.edu/trehub/
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PsyBlog
Where Am I? Redux
Referenced from:
PsyBlog
The World Wide Web distribution of James Gibson's "Purple Perils" is for scholarly use with the understanding that Gibson did not intend them for publication. References to these essays must cite them explicitly as unpublished manuscripts. Copies may be circulated if this statement is included on each copy.
"The main invariant of the permanent environment is that it is solid instead of viscous or liquid. The regularity of shape is not so important", at:
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/perils/folder6/norms.html
Referenced from:
PsyBlog
The World Wide Web distribution of James Gibson's "Purple Perils" is for scholarly use with the understanding that Gibson did not intend them for publication. References to these essays must cite them explicitly as unpublished manuscripts. Copies may be circulated if this statement is included on each copy.
Gibson discusses three generations of adaptation experiments, and concludes that the evidence supports "the substitution of ecological optics for retinal image optics, and demands a new visual physiology of 'looking around' instead of the old visual physiology of neural projection from the retina to the brain", at:
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/perils/folder3/adaptation.html
Referenced from:
PsyBlog
The World Wide Web distribution of James Gibson's "Purple Perils" is for scholarly use with the understanding that Gibson did not intend them for publication. References to these essays must cite them explicitly as unpublished manuscripts. Copies may be circulated if this statement is included on each copy.
Gibson suggests useful terminology for use with his concepts of ecological optics, at:
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/ecopsyc/perils/folder3/distortion.html
Referenced from:
PsyBlog
The Wikipedia page on Grid Cells provides a brief introduction with illustrations of the grid and links to original sources, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_cell
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firmware
The Wikipedia page on Place Cells provides a good introduction with many links to original sources, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell
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firmware
Ronald Melzack, an author of the hugely influential gate control theory of pain,
on an important paradigm shift over the last half-century, at:
http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=24&editionID=202&ArticleID=1868
Referenced from:
psyBlog
Dr. Dawn Ewing is a naturopathic practitioner in Houston, Texas, writing about the meridian connections of teeth to other body systems and organs, at:
http://drdawn.net/learning-center/articles/meridians-toothbody-connection/
Referenced from:
psyBlog
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