PSY 4930 – Special Topics:
Scientific Inquiry into
Contemporary Consciousness Studies
Look through the table of contents of the Consciousness Studies Archive (Anderson 117) for ideas.
Consult journals and
conference proceedings, abstracts
Search the internet: Eg: www.sci-con.com, www.iacworld.org
Review this list
Main Topics
Preliminary
Studies
Behavioral Effects
of Projectability
Exploring
Projective Sensations
Projective
Techniques
Prolonging
Nocturnal Lucidity
Basic Mobilization
of Bioenergies
Vibrational
State
Phenomenology
of the Vibrational State
Multidisciplinary
Integral
Health (including projective diagnosis)
Circumventing
Mental and Physical Disabilities through
Projectability and Parapsychism
Academic
Performance
Neurobiology of Transcendental
Experiences
Retrocognitions;
Self-Relay; Alike Historical Figures
Sports
Conscientiology & Human Performance
Effects of
Conscientiology on Criminology & Law
Role of Media
& Music in Consciential Development
Animal
Parapsychism
Modern Ethical Debates
& Projectiology
/ Ethical
Implications in Projectiology
Sexual maturity:
Evolutionary Duo, Sexuality, Abortion, HIV, Improving Relationships, Daily sex
and parapsychism; holorgasm; effects of sexual/affective lack, celibacy,
promiscuity, mental infidelity
Is having children a requirement to be fulfilled,
complete? How would the understanding of birth and development change with
non-physical views? Maternal infanticide
Addictions/Abuse/Obesity
Existential Task,
Function of Life, Robotic existence, indiv. Role and responsibility in Society,
societal ‘traps/baits’
Depression,
ADHD, Suicide
Academic
Relations: History; Astronomy, Archaeology, Geography...
“Our global crisis is a crisis of consciousness”
Global Issues:
Globalization, Overpopulation, Food Supply, Economics...
War,
Poverty
World
Government
Attributes/Intelligence:Creativity,
Humor, Leadership, Memory, Lucidity
Evolution
of the Consciousness;
Nature
vs. Nurture vs. Paragenetics
Free
will, determinism, karma, synchronicity, chance, coincidence
Death
and dying
Cinematographical
study
Self-Mimecry,
challenges and resources to accel. self-improvement; Why evolve?
Bioenergies:
Health, Conscious & Unconscious Exchanges, Parapsychism
Intermissive
Period
Maturity;
Universalism; Cosmoethics; Multiculturalism,
Poliglotism
Ecology
Resistance
to multidimensional awareness; roots; why is it diminishing?
Fear;
Fear of the unknown; fear of death
Somatization
Hypnagogic
state
Nature
& Role of Intuition
Indifference
and mental laziness
Obsession
with youth and fear of oldage
Altruism,
Assistance, alienation
What
are the top personal values & principals (rank: what you don’t want to
lose)
Evidence
and effects of predominance of emotions vs intellect - society
Irritability
(what irritates people the most), serenity
Phobias, traumas
Coherence
– verbaction, theorice, inconsistencies of beliefs/behavior
Pecadillos,
self-defense mechanisms, weak traits
Challenges
& Resources for a better oldage
Investigation
of psychic-assisted police cases
Dismissal
vs Fascination of Projection of the Consciousness
Vegetarianism
Multidimensionality
in different religious traditions / scriptures
Individual
proof of veracity of the out-of-body experience
Practical
effects, public utility, personal utility of OBE’s,
Summary
of types of experiences / activities reported in OBE’s
Sleep
& fatigue
Quality
of life factors, principals
Health
Care; Pharmacological/medical degradation;
Therapy
vs Medication
Sleep
paralysis and other ASC-related misdiagnosis, overmedication cases
Comercial-industrial
exploitation of youth
Living
like a consciousness vs living like a body
Technique
of Omnicritism
One
More Year to Live technique
Common
male traits vs female traits
Who
feels threatened by multidimensionality? Why? Neophilia, neophobia
Benefits
of living today vs. middle ages
Controversial
topics: death penalty, non-married couples, divorce, censure, religion in
school & government, Darwinism…
How
much of our day/month dedicated to ____ (self-improvement, helping, TV, etc.)
Job
insatisfaction; What things control you to what degree?
Democracy;
Etocracy/Lucidocracy
Joie
de Vivre; sources of joy in life
Success,
Fame
Relation
of strong and weak traits (eg. ST + WT = mega-WT), compensations of ST for WT;
using ST traits to overcome WT…
Challenges
and resources to maintaining a difficult project; overcoming
What
one thinks and feels; effects; positive change
Challenges
and resources of clarification task of controversial issue
Analysis
of our priorities (daily to lifetime); prioritizing self-knowledge
Avoiding
& treating pathologies of society
Role
of Attention in improvement and knowledge of self
Why
master perception and control of consciential energies?
Consciential
abstention:neutrality towards pursuit of integral maturity
Forgiveness,
Repenting, Reconciliation, Health
Positive
and negative uses of imagination
Knowledge,
Belief, Dogma, Science, Religion, Rationality, Logic
State
of Continuous Consciousness
Spirituality
vs Materialism
Common
imbalances of human life; recommendations
Availability
– “I don’t have time/money for” dedicating to myself
Silence,
immobility, attention, and introspection
Confidence, self-esteem despiteshortcomings, self-hatred, inferiority, superiority, self-unforgiving without masochism, hetero-forgiveness
Projections in total institutions and crisis (prisoners of war, jail); OBE as assistance and reform too for prisoners
Non-violent crimes, white collar prisons; too many people in jail? Reform vs punishment; alternatives;
Can there be spirituality without a spirit? (physicalist vs multidim)
Societal success, competition, proving to others; fulfillment;
Quantum Mechanics & Consciousness
Sychronicity vs Random Chance in Darwinism, Daily Life
Sophisms (false logic) in Contemporary Consciousness Studies
Reported hauntings in Florida
Coma, psychic healers, euthanasia, life support controversies
Clinical, therapeutic, training effects of lucid sleep states
Road rage, irritability, stress
Emmy-nominated Fulton Sheen “Life is worth living” series
The World of Faith
& Values series