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Guest Editorial 

Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: 

Retrieval & Curation 
 

Iona Miller
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ABSTRACT 
 

From 2000-2006 Emergent Mind published the open-source, nonprofit and peer-reviewed 

Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions. This journal was founded by Lian 

Sidorov, PhD, who served as the Executive Editor, with Iona Miller and Leane Roffey Line 

serving as Assistant Editors. It mapped the frontiers of consciousness and mind-matter 

interaction.  Sidorov is a physicist and put together a superb global team of researchers. The aim 

was to create a road map for the future of mind-body research and energy medicine, genetic 

architecture and regulation, studies in consciousness-related anomalies, and experiments in a 

comprehensive academic psi research program to provide critical references.  

 

Dr. Sidorov continues working under the International Consciousness Research Laboratories 

(ICRL) umbrella, which proposes the establishment of a world-wide, cross-disciplinary network 

of researchers, technical experts and volunteers committed to a sustained, active participation in 

this exploratory effort. They propose the creation of an open, searchable database of article pre-

prints (including experimental proposals and reports, case studies and testable hypotheses). Both 

the ICRL and Quantum Dream, Inc. projects support conceptual and infrastructural platforms of 

open-source scientific inclusion, among novel approaches for the representation and assessment 

of scientific knowledge in modeling, experimentation and education. 

 

Key Words: genomic science, novel approach, retrieval, curation, JNRM, ICRL, heuristics, 

consciousness, hermeneutics, mind-body mapping, meta-narrative, pandisciplinary, epigenetics, 

wave genetics, meta-genetics, biophysics, paradigm shift, archetypes, gene expression. 

 

 

Heuristic passion is ...the mainspring of originality --the force which impels us to 

abandon an accepted framework of interpretation and commit ourselves, by the 

crossing of a logical gap, to the use of a new framework. . . . Having made a discovery, 

I shall never see the world again as before.  My eyes have become different; I have 

made myself into a person seeing and thinking differently. I have crossed a gap, the 

heuristic gap, which lies between problem and discovery. -- (Polyani, 1962, cited in 

Moustakis, 1990) 

 

 

 

 

                                                 
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Introduction 
 

Owing to the lack of conclusive evidence, this editorial proposes likely hypotheses, not definitive 

solutions. Heuristic inquiry requires that we remain open, receptive, attuned to all facets of 

experience of a phenomenon. Intuition facilitates perception of wholes, an essential characteristic 

of seeking knowledge. All heuristic inquiry begins with the internal search to discover, a 

passionate desire to know, a devotion and commitment to pursue a well-posed question. 

  

Six phases of heuristic research guide unfolding investigations, comprising the basic research 

design. They include: the initial engagement, immersion into the topic and question, incubation, 

illumination, explication, and culmination of the research in a creative synthesis. (Moustakis) 

 

Over a hundred years have passed since quantum physics proved that consciousness cannot be 

separated from a complete view of reality. Such pioneering efforts require archiving and 

curation, much as takes place in the arts. McNiff (1998) points out that “art-based research 

expands heuristic research by introducing the materials of creative expression to the 

experimental process”. All maps of reality are filtering systems. Research is problem solving that 

also awakens self-knowledge. 

 

To correlate data accumulating within the field, many extraordinary theorists were included in 

JNLRMI, some of whom have unfortunately passed since that time, while others continue to 

inspire the mind-body sphere of research, genetics and complementary medicine. The forum 

included an archive of innovative papers by recognized experts in physics, biology, 

parapsychology, cognitive science, and noetics: Bohm, Penrose, Laszlo, Sarfatti, Popp, 

Goswami, Pitkanin, Sedlak, Varela, Hameroff, Stapp, Freeman, Oschman, Rubik, Grof, 

Chouinard, Beichler, Beal, Tiller, Targ, and more. JNLRMI published eight issues, featuring 

Sidorov, Pitkanin, Kaivarainen, Gariaev, Miller, Miller & Webb, Benford, and more, with 

interviews of parapsychology pioneers Joseph McMoneagle, Roger Nelson, Stanley Krippner, 

Fred Alan Wolf, Jim Tucker, Gerry Zeitlin, Chris King, Mark Germine, etc.  

 

The dormant JNLRMI can still be found at emergentmind.com. The Journal of Nonlocality looks 

forward to a re-launch as a purely experimental publication (only experimental proposals and 

reports). 

 

In an open letter on their “Mind-Matter Mapping Project”, Sidorov, et al (2012) from the 

International Consciousness Research Laboratories summarize the current research climate: 

(Appendix A) 

 

Bending an existing paradigm to accommodate new facts has always been a process fraught with 

inertia, higher-than-justified resistance and violent rebounds. To say that the study of nonlocal, 

consciousness-related phenomena faces a similar challenge today is an understatement. 

Although many prominent scientists would agree that simple reductionism has failed to produce 

an adequate explanation for some of our most important questions, such as the hard problem of 

consciousness or the foundations of quantum mechanics, few of these scientists are ready to 



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accept a change in our set of axioms, particularly the possibility that consciousness may be an 

elemental, rather than emergent component of reality. 

 

As a result, researchers in the field of mind-matter interactions find that they not only need to 

struggle with the limitations of our current scientific tools to make sense of their data, but also to 

fight for the legitimization of this data with a mainstream science community that is unwilling to 

accept its conceptual challenges. And yet, as daunting as this position seems at the moment, it is 

also an exhilarating one – for rarely in the history of science have we been faced with such 

unknowns. From ever-expanding entangled systems to remote perception and fieldREG effects, 

the evidence for nonlocality and mind-matter interactions keeps flooding in; but if this data 

cannot be plotted within our current system of coordinates, how do we begin to find our way 

toward a new one?  

 

Among other remedies, they recommend the following, which is very much within the research 

goals of the Quantum Dream, Inc. research group: 

 

We propose the establishment of a world-wide, cross-disciplinary network of researchers, 

technical experts and volunteers committed to a sustained, active participation in this 

exploratory effort. The goal of this collaborative project would be to index relevant questions 

and research leads; create a searchable roster listing each member’s background, interests, 

technical expertise and access to laboratory resources; to develop  new experimental models; 

share expertise and equipment resources; mentor on and critique study methodology; make 

inroads into mainstream applications; and publish  all such developments in one centralized, 

searchable database which would be highly visible and readily accessible online. Given the 

scarcity of funding and resources available for mind-matter projects, we must try to do less with 

more. The ability to capture ideas, connect experimental proposals to available resources and 

create a formal venue for the publication of such proposals would ensure that no good ideas 

remain stillborn for lack of opportunity and that proposed studies can be critiqued and 

methodologically strengthened at the earliest possible stage. 

 

Outreach to mainstream science is another goal of the project. However, academia is often 

accused of stunting creativity and progress in the name of the status quo: 

 

Creativity enhances life. It enables the great thinkers, artists, and leaders of our world to 

continually push forward new concepts, new forms of expression and new ways to improve every 

facet of our existence. The creative impulse is of particular importance to scientific research. 

Without it, the same obstacles, ailments, and solutions would occur repeatedly because no one 

stepped back and reflected to gain a new perspective. 

 

Unfortunately, in the academic world—where much of today’s scientific innovation takes place—

researchers are encouraged to maintain the status quo and not “rock the boat.” This mentality is 

pervasive, affecting all aspects of scientific research from idea generation to funding to the 

training of the next generation of scientists. (Southwick, 2012) 

 

 



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Digital Curation 
 

The collection and re-contextualization of the artifacts and pioneering articles of any scientific 

field is as important as art curation. Both art-based research and science involve the use of 

systematic experimentation with the goal of gaining knowledge about life. Digital curation is the 

selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital and print assets. The web 

is a user-curated platform but subject to link-rot and site-rot. 

 

Curation of meaningful works helps those new to any interdisciplinary field retain a sense of the 

whole field and its arc of development. In art, a more naïve rendering is rarely considered less 

valuable than the latest style or approach. To the contrary, it may be seen as foundational; proto- 

is not confounded with pseudo- anything. The joy of research and discovery is an inherent part of 

the creative process.  

 

Content curation selects what will be remembered in the history of any discipline. Some 

important notions arise in unrelated and even esoteric worldviews. That is, metaphysical 

concepts often precede solid scientific modeling. Armchair theoretics aside, even self-described 

“scientific papers” by recognized experts may sound uncritical in retrospect.  

 

Still such works introduce fundamental issues, such as ‘resonance’, ‘intentionality’, ‘holism’, 

and a host of ideas once thought irrelevant to the core science of physics. So, whether such 

papers read as “dated” or of their own era, the best deserve to be retained in the literature. Each 

field must preserve such archives or lose the developmental thread from courageous colleagues. 

 

Because of its exclusion from conventional reportage, frontier science is often relegated to a 

disjointed series of small journals and obscure publications that limit its exposure in the arena of 

ideas and inspirations. Curation is further compounded by cyberculture, and the scattered online 

musings of self-styled and genuinely worthy independent scholars. 

 

We generally resolve this cognitive dissonance by doubling-down on our own prejudices in 

opposition to those with whom we disagree. We tend to pathologize and demonize the other. We 

frame these conflicts as zero-sum and negative-sum competitions.  

 

Yet, if we take a more artful approach to science, we can maintain an open attitude as well as the 

rigor demanded by best practice. Theoretics uses creative thought, disciplined logic, and the 

current knowledge base to develop credible scientific theory. Experimental support emerges 

from such approaches, distinguishing concept from reality. 

When we experience new events, the brain encodes a memory of it by altering the connections 

between neurons. This requires turning on many genes in those neurons. Neuroscientists at 

MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research identified a master gene -- Npas4 -- that controls 

this complex process in the hippocampus, a brain structure known to be critical in forming long-

term memories. (Kurzweil, 2011) 



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Ideas advance, in part, because of their popularity among stakeholders in the theories of by-gone 

eras. Conversely, some ideas are actively suppressed for security and financial interests. It holds 

true from cosmology to micro-physics and micro-biology. Competing metanarratives shape our 

theories, lives and identities. The philosophy of interpretation can help us dig our way out of this 

relativistic mess, an entangled web of worldviews. 

 

Yet, science is rooted in prediction and a keen eye for the future of technology. In art, the 

visionary is rewarded; in science, often spurned, even when the motivation is to inspire others to 

greater heights of human experience and understanding. Even in nature, growth occurs at the 

very edge of creativity. Speculation is an inherent part of the process in which we argue many 

sides of the nature of reality.   

 

Too frequently, such “blue sky” speculation is withheld from the academic or pandisciplinary 

arena where its relative value can be more accurately assessed, literally or metaphorically. Pierre 

Teilhard de Chardin saw an emerging sphere of consciousness encircling the planet. In his view, 

recognizing this new reality and living in that awareness was essential to solving the major 

problems of humanity.  

 

A cultural retrieval is undoubtedly a fundamental aspect of the process of cultural 

transformation. Marshall McLuhan created a cultural geography where "space" is the master 

trope. He introduced the Tetrad Concept, a notion of process that includes enhancement, 

obsolescence, retrieval, and reversal. This tetrad of the effects of technologies is not sequential, 

but rather simultaneous. All four aspects are inherent from the start, and all four aspects are 

complementary.  

 

Even while technology extends or enhances our sensory perception, it numbs or diminishes other 

areas of experience. Every form pushed to its limits reverses its characteristics. Retrieval implies 

that older notions may contain important overlooked information.  

 

Thus, we find that the nature of “nothing”, the vacuum of absolute space, once spurned as 

irrelevant to the explication of force and form is arguably the most important aspect of 21
st
 

century physics. The void of space has become a plenum. Rather than an artifact of obsolete 

thinking, it has become one of the potentially most fruitful areas of investigation, more 

fundamental than the minute building blocks of particle physics, even though it remains a 

perennial Mystery. 

 

 

Hermeneutics 
 

Developments in micro-biology at the threshold of molecular biology and wave-genetics imply a 

necessary retrieval of “hermeneutics”. If DNA can be read as a “text”, as Gariaev and others 

suggest, then that text necessarily requires decoding, translation and interpretation, compounding 

our exploration.  

 



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Our attitude toward the text is shaped by whether we approach it skeptically or sympathetically. 

We all have a finite amount of time and attention, so these pre-filters are not insignificant. The 

text itself is not disconnected from the historical as well as biological context.  

 

Perhaps, in some metaphorical sense, we are moving so fast, time is just the holographic blur of 

superpositions we cannot “read” or see with our multi-sensory sampling. If we have no place for 

certain notions in our maps of reality, they can be prematurely discarded as irrelevant.  

 

Only the curating of such heterodox ideas, including them in the acceptable literature, keeps 

them relevant. Naturally, this does not mean every old idea will bear new fruit, but often we firm 

up our own ideas by disagreeing with unproven notions which inspire through the gaps in such 

theories. 

 

Critical theory applies psychological, sociological, philological, literary, historical, and 

philosophical theories to the text. Critical frameworks are like lenses through which we discover 

new insights. 

 

A new interpretation can emerge, based on a close, critical reading of the text, with a deeper 

understanding. Reading the text again, our understanding can be enriched by previous readings. 

 

The challenge, then, is to imagine the prospect of standing outside a tradition or ideology as an 

objective observer of the text using multiple methodologies and critical theories. The suspension 

of judgment, experimental reconfiguration, and shifting of standpoint are the keys to turning 

interpretation into a dynamic hermeneutical spiral. 

 

Naturally, not all retrievals will yield scientific gold from the alchemical ore of literature and 

experimentation. Yet, virtually any discourse or theory has the potential to stimulate original 

thought, experiments and vision. 

 

Both literally and figuratively, hermeneutics can reverse the relationship between text and reader. 

Instead of reading a "passive" text, we should allow an "active" text to read us, informing and 

transforming our world with new insights and understandings.  

 

In this sense, DNA is arguably the best “read” currently available. There may be many correct 

readings of the intra-textual “information”, more or less available to “truth seekers” within the 

limited field of possible constructions. 

 

 

Genomics 
 

Genomics is the study of all the genes of a cell, or tissue, at the DNA (genotype), mRNA 

(transcriptome), or protein (proteome) levels, DNA sequencing and fine-scale genetic mapping. 

Even though great progress has been made in biology and medicine, when it comes to such areas 

as genetic genealogy results remain wide open to interpretation, often requiring other disciplines 



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to read meaningful findings. Meta-genomics has revealed that the vast majority of microbial 

biodiversity was missed by cultivation-based methods. 

 

In its relatively short history, the unfolding science of DNA deciphering has already produced 

surprises and revisions in the forms of epi- and meta-genetics, strongly suggesting we need a 

socio-scientific dark-adapted eye for our explorations of the nature of ourselves and reality.  

 

As epigeneticist Bruce Lipton explains in The Biology of Belief, Dr. Temin, who was “originally 

ridiculed for his ‘heresy’,” subsequently “won a Nobel prize for describing reverse transcriptase, 

the molecular mechanism by which RNA can rewrite the genetic code.” Dr. Lipton hypothesizes 

that proteins also must have the ability, despite the prevailing genetic theory, to “buck the 

predicted flow of information.” 

 

Logically, this must be the case, “since protein antibodies in immune cells are involved with 

changing the DNA in the cells that synthesize them.” There are, however, “tight restrictions on 

the reverse flow of information, a design that would prevent radical changes in the cell’s 

genome.” Similarly, Lipton describes epigenetics as the science of how genes can be modified 

“without changing their basic blueprint.” 

 

These two quotes provide clues as to what lies beyond the reach of epigenetics and nurture. The 

latter function with “tight restrictions” on the way our own localized consciousness, in response 

to environmental signals, can flow in reverse and rescript our “basic blueprint”. 

 

Specific epigenetic processes include paramutation, bookmarking, imprinting, gene silencing, X 

chromosome inactivation, position effect, reprogramming, transvection, maternal effects, the 

progress of carcinogenesis, many effects of teratogens, regulation of histone modifications and 

heterochromatin, and technical limitations affecting parthenogenesis and cloning. 

 

Epigenetics is incapable of explaining evolution because it provides no mechanism allowing 

DNA to be rewritten, spontaneously, sufficiently to create “radical changes in the cell’s genome” 

that transform a species into a new one. Transcending both genetics and epigenetics, meta-

genetics concludes that the origin and evolution of species are driven neither by coding DNA nor 

by regulatory proteins in cell membranes. Rather, meta-genetics establishes that these two 

basically similar phenomena are controlled, via potential DNA, by what might be called a life-

wave, or wave genetics. 

 

Today, meta-genetics encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, 

genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics. The discovery of gene-expression transcended the 

nature/nurture dichotomy. The life-wave is described as a potentially infinite series of waves, 

much as an ocean has an endless number of waves but remains a single body of water. The ocean 

is analogous to the “torsion,” Source Field, vacuum potential, or hyperdimensional sound 

domain of absolute space, where individual waves act as sonic carrier waves for the genetic 

blueprints of past, present and future species. 

 



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Potential DNA serves as the principal connection point between manifest and unmanifest form. 

In other words, potential DNA, far from being inactive, constitutes the hyperdimensional 

interface between the sound and light domains. The existence of the genetic sound-light 

translation mechanism indicates that the flow of information, or conscious bioenergy, through 

DNA is a two-way street. Light becomes sound, and sound becomes light.  

 

Biophotonic light is stored in the cells of the organism - more precisely, in the DNA molecules 

of their nuclei. A dynamic web of light is constantly released and absorbed by the DNA and may 

connect cell organelles, cells, tissues, and organs within the body and serve as the organism's 

main communication network and as the principal regulator for all life processes. 

 

DNA acts as a holographic projector of acoustic and EM information which contains the 

informational quintessence of the biohologram. In the meta-genetic model, potential DNA is 

both a form and function of the life-wave. In both cases, potential DNA can be theorized to exist 

as a consciousness blueprint. 

 

Fundamentally, we are not in any way separate from our environment, locally and cosmically. 

Fractal science has shown that nature is self-similar at all scales, including those which escape 

observation at any given time. DNA is an expressive potential. 

 

A unified understanding of science and history requires that many facts of science from diverse 

disciplines be organized by level of observation, chronology of emergence, the scale of size, and 

thresholds of complexity realized. The challenge is to use the Book of Nature as a common 

reality-based reference in our debates. 

 

Genomics has psycho-social dimensions. Ernest Rossi, M.D. reveals his Jungian approach, 

stating, “Nothing, it seems turns on gene expression and brain plasticity as much as the presence 

of others of the same species!” Jung suggested that "Individual consciousness is only the flower 

and the fruit of a season, sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth; and it would find 

itself in better accord with the truth if it took the existence of the rhizome into its calculations. 

For the root matter is the mother of all things." 

 

 

The Nature of Consciousness 
 

Consciousness remains the “hard problem” of frontier science and the elusive target of 

Consciousness Studies – though many experts admit we are no closer to solutions than we were 

some forty years ago. Neurology has made some tantalizing suggestions, but often fails to 

separate ‘consciousness’ from simple ‘awareness’ or self-direction. The nature of consciousness 

is recursive, self-similar, self-referential, and self-reflexive. It is as weird as the quantum world. 

 

Meta-genetics recognizes the primacy of consciousness over environment and molecular 

biology. Consciousness is connected with one unity. Findings from new sciences provide 

external validation for the new biopsychosocial perspective and offer important insights into the 



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manifold means by which socioenvironmental experiences influence neurobiological structure 

and function across the life course. 

 

According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded 

immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of 

performing and learning. In flow, the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but 

positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. Openness is essential. 

 

From ancient times, people have described an ecstatic experience of the connectedness of all 

things as the pinnacle of human emotions. Different religious traditions have different words for 

this state: "enlightenment" -- "ecstasy" -- "being one with the Tao", Vision Quest, -- "religious 

transport." In the language of contemporary science, self-actualization is famously at the top of 

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. 

 

In process therapy, flow means parareception: "access" to the depths of the psyche with the doors 

of perception wide open. Areas of extrasensory perception or anomalous cognition include (1) 

Telepathy; (2) Clairvoyance; and (3) Retrocognition/Precognition. Recent research by Xiao-song 

Ma, et al suggests the entanglement of two intimately-connected particles implies a future 

decision can affect the past states of the particles. (Moskowitz) 

 

DNA is the universal information transducer, the hidden intelligence or "hidden fire" within us. 

This vast archive of information is passed along through a replicating process that involves the 

copying and encoding of genetic information from DNA to RNA (Ribonucleic acid). The 

original DNA that is housed within the nucleus of our cells programs instructions for the 

production of enzymes and proteins. These DNA instructions are not directly converted into 

proteins, but are copied into RNA. This ensures that the information contained in the DNA does 

not become tainted, thus preserving the archive. 

 

RNA polymerase attaches to the DNA at a specific area called the promoter region. The DNA 

strand opens and allows RNA polymerase to transcribe only a single strand of DNA into a single 

stranded RNA polymer called messenger RNA. The messenger RNA carries the information to 

the sites of protein synthesis (ribosome), thereby creating a replica of the original DNA. In this 

manner the genetic code is passed from cell to cell, mother to child. 

 

Vision (future memory) relates to precognition; healing is a form of creativity, and gnosis is an 

access state – self-realization. Self realization demands unlocking knowledge by direct 

experience. The Greek word "Gnosis" means direct experiential knowledge. 

 

Stories of distance healing, a form of PK or psychokinesis (mind over matter), require another 

article of their own to do them justice. It may be easier to model virtual information transfer than 

mind over matter. "Spooky action at a distance" requires even stronger evidence than sensing at a 

distance. But is "distance" here really a factor or an illusion in a holographic simply-connected or 

nonlocal universe? The paradox of spacetime and relativity presents itself in psi as psycho-

retrocognition, or time-reversed PK. 

 



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Though these experiences of knowing at a distance are called "extra-sensory," they often appear 

"as if" received by conventional sensory or mental means, for how else can we "know what we 

know"? It is a holistic psychophysical experience, affecting the whole self, physically, 

emotionally, mentally and often spiritually. The impediments of distance and time seem to 

dissolve; the barriers of spacetime are mysteriously overcome. The information is 'just there' in 

one form or another, whether spontaneous or facilitated.  

 

However it occurs, information becomes available to consciousness through imagery, sensation 

and awareness. Cellular and soul memory might also include some ancestral dread. Gnosis is an 

immediate experience -- a psychosensory gestalt, ranging from the "a-ha!" experience to peaking 

in the cognitive orgasm of illumination. 

 

The blueprint for our future memory as a species may be encoded in our seemingly dormant 

DNA material. Perhaps the evolutionary instructions for humanity’s future development 

contained within the DNA material rest in a dormant state, waiting to be activated. Information 

gleaned not only from our genetic past, but our environment's collective past -- Earth's 

cumulative organic database -- is available on a cellular level to all species within the bio-

system. A planetary intelligence, the universally consistent DNA coding system is potentially 

capable of passing information throughout the biosphere. 

 

 

Quantum Coherence & Entanglement 
 

Our biophysics is bioelectronic, electrochemical, biomagnetic, biophotonic and quantum. The 

energy body or field body is linked directly to the creative plenum. We refresh ourselves from it 

in the gaps between our breaths. 

 

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a world renowned geneticist & biophysicist. She is a life-long critic of neo-

Darwinism and genetic engineering and pioneer of a physics of organisms. She proposes that 

quantum coherence is the basis of living organization and can also account for key features of 

conscious experience. They include the "unity of intentionality", our inner identity of the 

singular "I", the simultaneous binding and segmentation of features in the perceptive act, the 

distributed, holographic nature of memory, and the distinctive quality of each experienced 

occasion. 

 

Further, a thoroughly organicist way of thinking transcends both conventional thermodynamics 

and quantum theory. Quantum coherence and nonlocal intercommunication are the expression of 

the radical wholeness of the organism, where global and local are mutually entangled, and every 

part is as much in control as it is sensitive and responsive. 

 

The life cycle, with its complex of coupled cyclic processes, forms a heterogeneous, 

multidimensional and entangled space-time which structures experience. In the ideal, it is a 

quantum superposition of coherent space-time modes, constituting a pure state that maximizes 

both local freedom and global cohesion in accordance with the factorizability of the quantum 

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Quantum coherence gives rise to correlations between subsystems which resolves neatly into 

products of the self-correlations so that the sub-systems behave as though they are independent 

of one another. One can also picture the organism as a coherent quantum electrodynamical field 

of many modes, with an uncertainty relationship between energy and phase. 

 

If quantum coherence is characteristic of the organism as conscious being, then the conscious 

being will possess something like a macroscopic wave-function. This wave function is ever 

evolving, entangling its environment, transforming and creating itself anew. In Bohm and Hiley's 

ontological interpretation of quantum theory there is no collapse of the wave function. With 

quantum potential playing the role of active information to guide the trajectories of particles, the 

wave function simply changes after interaction to become a new one.  

 

The possibility remains that there is no resolution of the wave functions of the quantum objects 

after interacting. So one may remain entangled and indeed, delocalized over past experiences 

(i.e., in Lazlo's ambient field). Some interactions may have time scales that are extremely long, 

so that the wave function of interacting parties may take a correspondingly long time to become 

resolved, and large scale nonlocal connectivity may be maintained. 

 

The wave function may look like an intricate supramolecular orbital of multidimensional 

standing waves of complex quantum amplitudes. It would be rather like a beautiful, exotic 

flower, flickering in and out of many dimensions simultaneously. That would constitute our 

quantum holographic self, created from the entanglements of past and future experiences, the 

memory of all we have suffered and celebrated -- the totality of our anxieties and fears, our 

hopes and dreams. (Ho, 1997)). 

 

 

Gene-Expression 
 

Gene expression is the cellular process that decodes the genetic information in DNA and 

converts it into proteins. It is regulated at many levels: when messenger RNA is transcribed from 

DNA; when mRNA is translated into proteins; and at the epigenetic level, when the structure of 

chromatin, coils of DNA wound around histone proteins, is altered. Although most discussion of 

gene expression focuses on the regulation of transcription, the other components of the process 

are also crucial. Yet little is known about how they are integrated. (Rossi, 2010) 

 

Work by Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and his team 

provides a striking example of the integration of seemingly disparate components in gene-

expression regulation (Luco et al., 2010). They describe how patterns of alternative splicing of 

newly made RNA, a key regulatory mechanism, can themselves be regulated by specific 

chemical modifications in the chromatin. They also found that a given set of modifications to 

histones predicts patterns of RNA splicing. The authors conservatively estimate that this 

mechanism occurs in dozens to hundreds of genes in the human genome.  

 



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This remarkable study makes a connection between a quintessential transcription-regulation 

mechanism, histone modification, and a post-transcriptional process, alternative splicing. It 

shows that chromatin can regulate not only how much of a protein, but also which protein, is 

made in a cell. We have seen a surge of intriguing studies suggesting that molecules that were 

thought to regulate transcription also direct epigenetic modifications, modify alternative-splicing 

patterns and participate in the intracellular transport of RNA. 

 

Synaptic connections underlie associative learning. Psychological, social, and cultural signals 

modulate gene expression. Psychosocial Genomics measures changes in the deep 

psychobiological process of “activity or experience-dependent gene expression and brain 

plasticity” associated with creativity and healing. Psychosocial genomics produces long-term 

changes in behavior, vision and worldview, through learning and morphological changes in gene 

expression that alter the strength of synaptic connections. Structural changes alter the anatomical 

pattern of interconnections between nerve cells of the brain. Stated simply, the regulation of gene 

expression by social factors makes all bodily functions, including all functions of the brain, 

susceptible to social influences. (Rossi) 

 

 

Neuro-gnosis 
 

Neurognostic structures organize experience and cognition, and correspond somewhat to Carl 

Jung's archetypes. Jung was ambiguous about the ontological status of the archetypes and the 

collective unconscious, because of the inadequacy of the science of his day. Modern 

developments in the neurosciences and quantum physics - especially the new physics of the 

vacuum - allow us to develop Jung's understanding of the archetypes further. Direct 

neurophysiological-quantum coupling suggests how neural processing and quantum events may 

interpenetrate. 

 

He insisted that the archetype is not merely another word for the physiology of the image or 

thought. While it included the physiological basis of knowledge, the concept was intended to run 

deeper - deep into the instincts and beyond, outward into the universal ground of existence. 

Archetypes form the total ground - the collective unconscious – upon which conscious cultural 

and personal experience develops. These structures are the products of natural selection, and are 

the impressions left by recurrent experiences of the species upon the nervous systems of 

individuals. 

 

They generate (or "cause") an endless variety of transformations that are experienced as images 

and ideas had in dreams, fantasies and visions. These images and ideas bear the mark of personal 

and cultural conditioning, and the archetypes themselves are involved in the development of 

consciousness. The archetypes produce all of the universal material in myth and ritual drama. 

Archetypal experiences tend to be numinous and transpersonal in their impact upon personal 

development, for they are the eruption of archaic and timeless meaning into the personal world 

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The archetype exists as the intersection of spirit and matter. We are now beginning to understand 

in a scientific way how this intersection might be possible, if by "spirit" we mean the order of the 

quantum sea. Human experience becomes the localized instantiation of the universal - the 

transcendental - through the medium of neurognosis. And neurognosis is precisely the local 

embodiment of the structure of the sea, and at the same time the structures mediating 

consciousness. 

 

When Michael Persinger suggests in his book, Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (1987), 

that certain experiences of unity with the Godhead may be mediated by structures in the temporal 

lobes, such an analysis need not imply a reduction of transpersonal experiences to 

neurophysiology. Among other things, to reduce these experiences to their neurophysiological 

foundations begs such questions as the profundity of insight, or the causation-at-a-distance that 

may accompany such experiences.  

 

Neurognostic or archetypal structures in the brain may transduce insights pertaining to the 

universal structure of the quantum sea. Each human brain may indeed prove to be a microcosm 

that contains, like the proverbial mustard seed, or the more modem hologram - all the wisdom of 

the ages, requiring only the optimal conditions of development for each person to individuate 

into a sage. (Miller, 2008). 

 

Rossi reports that neurogenesis can occur in the motor cortex simply through the act of 

imagining playing the piano (Pascual-Leone, Amedi, Fregni, & Merabet, 2005). Similarly, 

taxicab drivers develop the areas of their brains involved in spatial relationships by memorizing 

the labyrinthine streets and avenues of the cities in which they work (Maguire et al., 2000). 

Although the underlying mechanisms are different, neuroplasticity research suggests that 

challenging learning experiences can lead to the development of brain tissue in a manner 

analogous to the ways that physical exercise can lead to the development of muscle tissue. 

 

One area of research that has found significant evidence of mental training leading to 

neuroplastic modifications in brain activity focuses on the study of meditation. Meditation, 

although greatly varying in technique and purpose across the diverse spiritual and cultural 

traditions in which it is used, may be generally defined as the intentional practice whereby one 

grasps "the handle of cognition" to cultivate a competent use of one's own mental capacities, 

gaining agency over thought and emotion (Depraz, Várela, & Vermersch, 2003). Such 

intentional mental training has been shown to induce functional neurobiological changes. 

 

Jung's reference to the essential unknowability of the archetypes-in-themselves also applies to 

neurognostic structures. Neurognosis may also refer to the functioning of these neural structures 

in producing either experience or some other activity unconscious to the individual. This usage is 

similar to Jung's reference to archetypal imagery, ideas, and activities that emerge into and are 

active in consciousness. This includes ancestral / genetic memory. In the inward experience the 

connection between the psyche and the outward image or creed is first revealed as a resonance, 

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Jung's genius was in holding the tension of opposites of mind-body dualism - that is, between 

experiential relativism on the one hand and physical reductionism on the other. It was clear to 

Jung that an individual's experience is both structured by processes universal to the human 

psyche, and the manifestation of individuation.  

 

Holding the tension of the opposites, one transcends them. Holding a divine "tension" allows a 

new consciousness to unfold. As hybrid "spirit-matter" beings, we must realize it is appropriate 

for us to be living in two worlds at once -- the world of the ego and the world of the soul. We do 

not become one watered-down nondescript composite: we each bring forth our entire way of 

being -- as a very rich and inviting way to live. 

 

You can't wait to discover something without knowing how it is going to happen. Expectancy 

and surprise in the neuro-psycho-physiology generate detectable changes in the dynamics of 

gene expression and neurotransmission. Regulation of the priming step of the neurotransmitter 

release has important consequences for memory, learning, problem solving, and behavior change 

at the synaptic level. A synaptic protein called RIM, among others, is involved in a key 

regulatory step of synaptic plasticity facilitated by priming the synaptic vesicles between neurons 

to release their neurotransmitters. 

 

The molecular messengers generated by stress, injury, and disease can activate immediate early 

genes within stem cells so that they then signal the target genes required to synthesize the 

proteins that will transform (differentiate) stem cells into mature well-functioning tissues. Such 

activity-dependent gene expression and its consequent activity-dependent neurogenesis and stem 

cell healing is proposed as the molecular-genomic-cellular basis of rehabilitative medicine, 

physical, and occupational therapy as well as the many alternative and complementary 

approaches to mind-body healing. 

 

The therapeutic replaying of enriching life experiences that evoke the novelty-numinosum-

neurogenesis effect during creative moments of art, music, dance, drama, humor, literature, 

poetry, and spirituality, as well as cultural rituals of life transitions (birth, puberty, marriage, 

illness, healing, and death) can optimize consciousness, personal relationships, and healing in a 

manner that has much in common with the psychogenomic foundations of naturalistic and 

complementary medicine.  

 

The entire history of alternative and complementary approaches to healing is consistent with this 

new neuroscience world view about the role of psychological arousal and fascination in 

modulating gene expression, neurogenesis, and healing via the psychosocial and cultural rites of 

human societies. (Rossi, 2003).  

 

A single genotype, the genetic blueprint of an organism, can be expressed in a multiplicity of 

distinct physiological and behavioral forms, known as phenotypes. The mechanisms by which 

such different phenotypes are expressed are just beginning to be understood, but they appear to 

involve the regulatory effect of internal and external environmental signals on stress hormones, 

which in turn modify gene transcription processes (Rossi, 2004). 

 



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Experiences modulate gene expression. In turn, experience-dependent modifications to neural 

tissue may be driven by epigenetic processes (that is, changes in gene expression produced by 

environmental determinants) .The human environment is constantly conditioned by social 

experiences, which, when transduced by the nervous system into electrochemical signals, may 

modulate protein synthesis in the nuclei of nerve cells, ultimately leading to changes in the 

replication and growth of neurons. Social experience can change gene expression, leading to the 

restructuring of the brain through neuroplasticity. 

 

Thought, emotion, and action trigger neural activity, which can lead to a reorganization of the 

brain, shaping future psychosocial experience. From this perspective, we are not the passive 

products of neurophysiology and heredity; rather, through our behavior in the social 

environment, we become active agents in the construction of our own neurobiology and, 

ultimately, our own lives. We have the power to transcend and transform their limitations into 

opportunities for growth and well-being. 

 

 

Paradigm Shift 
 

Novel approaches to genomic as well as other sciences take place in the context of three primary 

paradigms of Separation, Connection and Wholeness, reflected in genomics as molecular, epi- 

and meta-genetics (wave genetics): 

 

a) The Hierarchical Paradigm: Searching for Connection and Wholeness 

b) The Transformation Paradigm: Inner Wisdom and Relational Understanding 

c) The Synthesis Paradigm: Integration 

 

 

Orthodox vs. Heterodox Models 
 

The Hierarchical Paradigm exerts control to impose a form of limitation to define and 

understand, manipulating the status quo of science and belief systems with a containing and 

controlling effect of relative truths on culture. It represents diverse interests, perceptions of 

reality, and motives of action, containing intuitive abilities, and perhaps emphasizing 

preservation of the conventional over creativity. 

 

Arguably, hierarchy has trapped itself in vested specialization and in the limiting aspects of 

diversity that prevent it from evolving from an arduous ladder of evolution to a joyous pursuit. 

Fragmented science focuses on the part not the whole. It might be served better by removing 

rigid boundaries and barriers to exploration in a way that recognizes consciousness rather than 

detours from the road to expanded consciousness. Externally oriented, it supports subgroups 

linking energies of independent branches.  

 

 

Transdisciplinary Models 
 



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Transformative and Integrative paradigms express novel approaches to the collective potential of 

all life in the universe and a grand connective vision, while maintaining scientific rigor. Our 

awareness is directly connected to the very borders of discovery.  

 

The roots of the hierarchical tree are bound in the soil of genetic memory, subconscious instincts, 

and orthodox beliefs and institutions. Evolution shifts positions within the hierarchy. The 

transformation paradigm initiates accelerated, independent pathways that bypass the hierarchy 

and expand creativity, accessed through direct experience, including transformation and novel 

access to authentic information and healing of fragmentation.  

 

 

Pandisciplinary Models 
 

Synthesis is integration of the dominant paradigm of the hierarchy with the transformation 

paradigm – recognizing the integral manifestation of the wholeness. The next step is to integrate 

the time-based incremental model of evolutionary progress with the realization-based model of 

the transformation paradigm and recognition of the multidimensional universe.  

 

The process goal is to transmit this future experience into communication symbols and life 

principles that facilitate the bridging of the two paradigms. Such catalysts focus on developing 

new communication symbols through various art and science forms that facilitate detachment 

from the controlling aspects of the hierarchy. These people also demonstrate the natural ease of 

interweaving the two primary strands of existence into a synthesis paradigm. 

 

The foundational plan of life's original source and ultimate destiny reintegrates itself into 

timelessness by following it back into the very foundation from which all things arise and return. 

Novel approaches to genomics are part of this integrative process of energy and patterns of 

information and relationship. 

 

Bioinformatics was applied in the creation and maintenance of a database to store biological 

information at the beginning of the "genomic revolution", such as nucleotide sequences and 

amino acid sequences. Development of this type of database involved not only design issues but 

the development of complex interfaces whereby researchers could access existing data as well as 

submit new or revised data. The primary goal of bioinformatics remains to increase the 

understanding, analysis and interpretation of biological processes. 

 

 

Discussion 
 

There is a lack of exposition on interdisciplinary and innovative methods of data mining, 

visualization and multiscale modeling for biodata and mind-matter mapping. An interdisciplinary 

set of novel pandisciplinary techniques from pure science and engineering, pattern recognition, 

and ontological data mining fields are applicable to genomics and consciousness studies. 

 



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Consciousness is a reciprocal function of resilience and energy transducing tensegrity structures 

(Southwick & Miller). Full and unqualified interest informs determination to extend our 

understanding and knowledge of experience. We are not separate from that, and need only hark 

back to the injunction of the ancient Oracle of Delphi to “Know Thyself”. 
 

The phenomenological heuristic research mode outlined by Moustakas is a way of knowing that 

involves self-search, self dialogue and self-discovery by focusing on experience and trusting 

one’s self awareness and understanding. The primary task of heuristic research is acknowledging 

the fundamental awareness that exists in the researcher’s consciousness -- “to receive and accept 

it, and then to dwell on its nature and the possible meanings” (p. 11). The researcher adheres to 

the strict six phase methodology: 

 

1) Initial Engagement: the researcher formulates a question from engagement with a topic of 

deep personal significance or interest. 

2) Immersion: the process of becoming one with the question or study topic – all aspects of the 

researcher’s life are addressed within the context of the question. 

3) Incubation: Removal of oneself from the intense involvement of the immersion phase in order 

to provide room for unconscious understanding. 

4) Illumination: New meaning is discovered or old understandings corrected or modified. 

5) Explication: The researcher’s understanding is sharpened through concentrated attention. 

6) Creative Synthesis: The culmination of the process, in which themes are discerned and 

connections made; the researcher is open to receiving a better understanding of the question 

through intuition and tacit knowing. 
 

While it has been suggested (Lau) that “[tyrannical] peer review may stifle novel approaches” to 

developmental methodologies, it remains a valuable part of scientific discourse. Alternative or 

complementary approaches to traditional peer review can be included in research evaluation 

(Birukau et al), since no single system can suit all stakeholders in various communities. 

 

The problem becomes not one of how to know something radically new, but how to learn 

something radically new. How can we know or describe anything about the changes we have not 

yet experienced, change that by universal consensus takes us beyond the realm of everyday 

reality, for which our words and concepts have been fashioned?  

 

In The Holographic Paradigm, Weber says that, "Psychological death occurs when 

consciousness keeps step with the ever-moving and self-renewing present, allowing no part of 

itself to become caught or fixated as residual energy. It is residual energy that furnishes the 

framework for what will become the thinker, who consists of undigested experience, memory, 

habit-patterns, identification, desire, aversion, projection and image-making. This is not a purely 

personal process but the energy of aeons of such processes sclerosed through time, persisting on 

both personal and collective levels.  Ego-death dismantles this superstructure...” 

 

As Zukav's (1979) virtual energy-exchanges show, during all of these transactions new particle-

wave patterns are being re-created as virtual-energy "vapor-trails", instantaneously recycled into 

other energy fields -- the eventual material manifestations of which our entire observable and 

experiential universe is composed.  



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Bohm suggested that we transform as eternity unfolds in us, but that eternity may also transform, 

as it returns to itself enriched by our participation. In this theory, knowledge consists of the 

process of tuning in on the manifestation (phenomenon) of the nonmanifest in order to make it 

accessible, through a state of consciousness which lies outside the barriers of the finite senses. 

Bohm maintains that this capacity exists in the universe, not in us strictly speaking. 

 

 

Conclusion 
 

Spinoza called our greatest pleasure the union of the mind with nature. Nick Herbert poetically 

wonders, "When will physicists expand their craft by daring to suppose a more creative kind of 

measurement -- the "greatest pleasure" of Spinoza?” David Bohm suggested psychological 

"atom-smashing" as a way of radically destructuring the ego, opening it to wider experience of 

the undivided whole. 

 

 

 

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Appendix A 
 

THE MIND-MATTER MAPPING PROJECT  
Lian Sidorov, Liam Gray, Erik Schultes, Zachary Jones, Adam Curry 

International Consciousness Research Laboratories 

211 N. Harrison St., Ste. C, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA 

OPEN LETTER 

Bending an existing paradigm to accommodate new facts has always been a process fraught with 

inertia, higher-than-justified resistance and violent rebounds. To say that the study of nonlocal, 

consciousness-related phenomena faces a similar challenge today is an understatement. Although 

many prominent scientists would agree that simple reductionism has failed to produce an 

adequate explanation for some of our most important questions, such as the hard problem of 

consciousness or the foundations of quantum mechanics, few of these scientists are ready to 

accept a change in our set of axioms, particularly the possibility that consciousness may be an 

elemental, rather than emergent component of reality. 

As a result, researchers in the field of mind-matter interactions find that they not only need to 

struggle with the limitations of our current scientific tools to make sense of their data, but also to 

fight for the legitimization of this data with a mainstream science community that is unwilling to 

accept its conceptual challenges. And yet, as daunting as this position seems at the moment, it is 

also an exhilarating one – for rarely in the history of science have we been faced with such 

unknowns. From ever-expanding entangled systems to remote perception and fieldREG effects, 

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cannot be plotted within our current system of coordinates, how do we begin to find our way 

toward a new one?  

  

CURRENT PROBLEMS FACED BY EXPERIMENTAL PARAPSYCHOLOGY 

1.      Lack of visibility in the mainstream scientific community, which results in a limited 

expertise field funneling ideas and resources into our research program 

2.      Severely curtailed financial and technical resources 

3.      A significant credibility issue, which is reinforced by publication bias, institutional politics 

and social and scientific conceptual frameworks which are too narrow to accommodate these 

empirical findings. It is easier to sweep the data under a proverbial rug of pseudo-skepticism than 

to deal with the conceptual upheavals that it its acceptance would require. 

4.      Fear. The psychological, social and intellectual repercussions of accepting these empirical 

facts are overwhelming for vast numbers of people, which means that an experiential, rather than 

a purely intellectual approach may be necessary in order to cross this barrier and modify the 

existing paradigm. 

PROPOSED APPROACHES 

1.      Connect ideas with technical resources and experimental volunteer pools (Research 

Network). Identify most promising research directions based on Idea Futures 

Market (see http://hanson.gmu.edu/ideafutures.html) and help to funnel funding toward these 

projects through membership dues or other pools set aside for such purposes on a voluntary 

basis. 

2.      A Mind-Matter arXiv-like database of experimental proposals and pre-prints extending 

the typical spectrum of parapsychology literature to include developments in areas such as 

biophoton research, genetic regulatory systems, qigong and other intent-based healing 

techniques, placebo effects, entanglement and foundations of physics research.  

3.      Using Semantic Web analytical techniques and smart search engines to automatically 

identify patterns and correlations across related subfields. Indexing existing mind-matter 

literature to generate standardized vocabularies and databases of nano-citations that integrate 

seamlessly with new mainstream search engines, eliminating previous publication filters and 

increasing the visibility of this research. 

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4.       A sustained outreach effort to engage the broader science community based on research 

and applications that resonate with mainstream interests 

 

PROJECT COMPONENTS 

1.  RESEARCH NETWORK 

We propose the establishment of a world-wide, cross-disciplinary  network of researchers, 

technical experts and volunteers committed to a sustained, active participation in this exploratory 

effort. The goal of this collaborative project would be to index  relevant questions and research 

leads; create a searchable roster listing each member’s background, interests, technical expertise 

and access to laboratory resources; to  develop  new experimental models; share expertise and 

equipment resources;  mentor on and critique study methodology; make inroads into mainstream 

applications; and publish  all such developments in one centralized, searchable database which 

would be highly visible and readily accessible online.  Given the scarcity of funding and 

resources available for mind-matter projects, we must try to do less with more. The ability to 

capture ideas, connect experimental proposals to available resources and create a formal 

venue for the publication of such proposals  would  ensure that no good ideas remain stillborn 

for lack of opportunity and that proposed studies can be critiqued and  methodologically 

strengthened at the earliest possible stage. 

Advantages: 

 

1.      Faster, nimbler, task-oriented working groups sifting through empirical data to identify 

potential patterns across various mind-matter phenomena and design new testable hypotheses, 

experimental models or applications. 

2.      Establishment of skills/expertise networks so that proposed experiments can be carried out 

by those with the capability to do so. 

3.      Allow interested mainstream scientists to participate under pseudonym, without fear of 

professional consequences. 

4.      Team members will be known to each other, develop ideas in password-secured “virtual 

labs” and publish their proposals collectively in the Journal of Nonlocality and other ICRL 

Technical Bulletins, which will be posted regularly. 



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As an additional incentive, we have created the Mind-Matter Mapping Prize, to be awarded 

yearly to the best experimental proposal, as voted by our project members. 

 

 

Membership Structure 

- Membership will be by invitation or application review (to demonstrate relevant background 

and level of interest). Member profiles including publications, interests, technical expertise and 

equipment access will be searchable on our website in order to facilitate collaborative efforts, 

mentorship and peer feedback.   

- Teams will be organized to develop semantic web vocabularies in order to enable smart search 

and data mining algorithms (nano-publication model); collect and index relevant literature 

according to these new semantic web criteria; develop new exploratory directions and 

experimental models; and establish working contacts with mainstream groups sharing possible 

interests in this research 

- All members must commit to active participation in the project and sign on to one of several 

teams.  Teams will be anchored by coordinators whose job is to collect and post submitted 

references and ideas, moderate their Group Forum section and steer new proposals/experiments 

toward publication in the ICRL bulletin. Multiple coordinators may anchor any given group, in 

order to minimize the individual burden but maximize the expertise. 

- To maintain membership one must contribute a minimum of four indexed literature references 

per month. This is a minimum degree of involvement designed to keep the information flow and 

discussion active within the group, and to keep members in touch with their project. In addition, 

members are encouraged to participate as volunteers when needed for online or other 

proposed experiments, so that we can generate data promptly and efficiently.   

We suggest that the Mind Matter Mapping Project should maintain a multi-platform 

Web presence, possibly structured in the following way: 

1.      A cloud-based project website with open access to the Journal of Nonlocality, existing 

research resources, Member Profiles and announcements.  

2.  Password-restricted working forums where smaller units of researchers can develop their 

experimental proposals in private, prior to publication (the equivalent of virtual labs). 



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3.  An open access Groups forum, where the general mandate and organization of the project 

are presented, with an opportunity for anyone to post ideas, questions and references. This would 

allow the broadest funneling of input and potential membership without diluting the searchable 

field of information on the project website. Valuable contributions can be filtered by group 

moderators onto the appropriate Project website pages and participants who show 

promise/expertise could be invited to become members. 

2.    NEW PUBLICATION AND DATA MINING MODELS  

We propose the creation of an open, searchable database of article pre-prints (including 

experimental proposals and reports, case studies and testable hypotheses) modeled on the 

existing  arXiv.org  but dedicated to nonlocality, mind-matter interactions and relevant 

mainstream fields. Examples of such mainstream topics include (but are not limited to) work in 

quantum entanglement and computation, foundations of physics, biophysics, genetic regulatory 

mechanisms, placebo effects, intent-based complementary and alternative medicine, 

neuroimaging and scientific studies of internally-deployed attention states such as meditation.  In 

addition, an open repository of planned experiments, their methodology and results could be 

created as proposed by Jonathan Schooler (NY Times, Jan 7, 2011) to increase transparency and 

the ease of replication. 

As with arXiv, there would be no peer-review assumption – only open critique.  However, this 

would allow researchers anywhere in the world to post their proposals and data rapidly, in 

a visible and centralized forum, allowing us to expand the current empirical funnel to a much 

broader spectrum of research sources. Since it typically takes years between the inception of 

an experimental idea and the completion of the study (with most ideas likely abandoned 

due to lack of time, training, funding or opportunity), we feel that being able to claim 

authorship of an experimental model despite other practical limitations would encourage 

scientists to develop and discuss new approaches - thus enhancing  transparency and the 

rapid dissemination of new empirical data and concepts, accelerating the pace of 

development far beyond the current peer-review system. 

One final but critical question remains, which is of course assigning validity to the citations 

included in our database. In the absence of peer review and adequate replications, the benefits of 

such an approach may be obscured by its inherent limitations. To circumvent this objection we 

recommend implementing a ranking system where each citation is assigned a validity 

code based on its source – from peer reviewed specialty journals to individual, anecdotal and 

case study reports, even  “community  confidence level” that can be voted on/earned after a 

certain number of forum contributions. In this manner, a search query return could easily be 

filtered according to the strength of evidence desired.  



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3.   REACHING OUT TO MAINSTREAM SCIENCE 

We will make a sustained effort to reach out to the broader science community through projects 

that resonate with mainstream research questions and applications, that may assist with providing 

answers to these questions and that will hopefully stimulate individual scientists to learn more 

about the techniques and theoretical frameworks we are proposing. 

Examples 

Remote Viewing: 

-          Develop specialized training /vocabularies geared to particular fields of research in order to 

sensitize viewers to the perception of processes and features particular to their area of 

investigation 

-          Create a pool of intractable questions in science - assign these as targets to a group of expert 

remote viewers then openly post the RV data. The hope is that enough currently verifiable 

information will be produced to generate an interest among those mainstream scientists focused 

on these questions to persuade them that there may be an “insight advantage” to learning RV.   

 

Placebo/ Healing Effects: 

-          Look into biophysical models of genetic regulation, correlations between subject 

EEG/physiological markers of meditative states and the biophoton profiles of in-vitro targets; 

explore long-term physiological changes with qigong and meditation; use in-vitro sample 

biofeedback to test the effectiveness of different visualization techniques on biological targets 

and find ways to technologically enhance these effects. 

 Working groups will be assembled around a number of basic cross-disciplinary questions, 

as follows (more research directions to be defined later): 

1. Probing the role of Meaning in mind-matter interactions (target ID in remote viewing; issues 

of displacement; strength of PK effect). Use the tools of parapsychology to probe the foundations 

of Quantum Mechanics (measurement problem). 



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 2. Becoming proficient in the language of the interface (creating applications-specific abstract 

vocabularies; data integration: context, meme complexes and tasking intent; other tools of RV 

navigation) 

 3. Intersecting Minds: multiple observers and consensus reality. How does the intent of multiple 

participants align to create a target identity in remote perception or skew probabilistic processes 

in remote perturbation? The effect of bonding, weighted influence (i.e. are some participants 

more heavily invested and how does that compute in the overall effect); expectation; decline; 

sheep and goats; data fingerprinting; error propagation; which way does the information flow?  

 4. Physiological and psychological remodeling (strengthening psi - long term effects of 

meditation, belief filters, biofeedback technologies, types of visualization etc) 

 5. Possible signatures of entanglement (biophotons/EM pulses; physiologic and metabolic 

markers) 

6. The genetic interface: organism coherence, biophotons and their role in genetic/physiologic 

regulation; biological transducers of remote intent; cracking the placebo code 

7. Positioning intent in time: synchronicity, expectation, delayed effects and causal flow. Is psi 

always goal-oriented? Finding the best fulcrum point to apply intent 

8. Analytical methods in remote perception data processing: multiple operators, fuzzy set theory 

and other approaches 

9. Mass threshold effects (see Rupert Sheldrake's studies and the Global Consciousness Project); 

designing large scale experiments 

10. Methodological mine fields: causal loops, blindness, expectation and other rabbit holes.   

If interested in becoming a member, volunteering for administrative positions (including IT projects) 

or submitting material for publication in the Journal of Nonlocality, please contact Lian Sidorov 

(liansidorov@gmail.com).  Your feedback is critical to the success of this effort, so we look forward 

to all your suggestions.  


