Currently in JCER, Volume 3; Issue 8:

JCER Volume 3 Issue 8 in August 2012 includes the following papers:

Article: Elio Conte, Nunzia Santacroce & Antonio Federici, Preliminary Considerations on a Possible Quantum Model of Consciousness Interfaced with a Non-Lipschitz Chaotic Dynamics of Neural Activity.
Article: Lawrence C. Wile, Reissner’s Fiber, Quanta & Consciousness.
Review Article: Iona Miller, A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
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Article: Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson, the Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.  http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson, the Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process.
Article: Iona Miller, A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: Iona Miller, A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.

The Creative & Persecuted Minority: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art,
by Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson, PhD*, (Malta). http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html

Residing in Malta, Paul Henrickson, PhD is an artist, published art critic, and contributing author to journals in the fields of education, art education, art and archaeology, anthropology, psychology.  He has written an opera libretto in collaboration with a Maltese composer and  been the local manager for performing artists.  Dr. Henrickson was born in Massachusetts, (USA). He attended The Rhode Island School of Design, The University of Massachusetts (Boston), Clark University (Worcester), Statens Kunstakademiet (Oslo, Norway), The University of Oslo, and got his doctorate at The University of Minnesota. Henrickson offered art criticism seminars in New Mexico, has administered Art Departments and Divisions of Fine Arts at Vallet City State College, (North Dakota), Radford University, (Virginia), The University of Guam, (M.I.) and was on research assignments at The University of Minnesota and the University of Northern Iowa where he originated “The Creativity Packet”, a puzzle-format creativity-enhancement tool.

Paranthropology Book Review: A Transdisciplinary Look at an Emerging Field of Exploration, by Iona Miller, 2012
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In the words of its editors, “Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal” is a free on-line journal devoted to the promotion of social-scientific approaches to the study of paranormal experiences, beliefs and phenomena in all of their varied guises. The journal aims to promote an interdisciplinary dialogue on issues of the paranormal, so as to move beyond the skeptic vs. advocate impasse which has settled over the current debate, and to open new avenues for inquiry and understanding.” The 2012 anthology, Paranthropology: Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal celebrates such pioneering exploration and attempts to lay down some basic principles for research, theory and practice, fusing humanities and science. The journal PARANTHROPOLOGY has broken through the wall of silence and dared to subjectively and objectively examine experiences formerly considered “supernatural” — unexplainable personal and cultural phenomena. 

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHEDELIC INDIVIDUAL:
A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John Curtis Gowan, PhD by Iona Miller, ©1994 – 2012
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ABSTRACT:  We can hark back for more than nostaligia to the classic chronicles of the psychedelic revolution. In 1974, creativity expert John Curtis Gowan, (Professor Emeritus, California State University, Northridge, California) published, DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHEDELIC INDIVIDUAL: A Psychological Analysis of the Psychedelic State and Its attendant Psychic Powers. Gowan extracts the philosophical gold from such X-Events or “extreme events”.

This article is not about drug-induced psychedelia, but about the natural psychedelic state of consciousness, as accessed through the process of self-actualization.  Gowan’s orientation is summarized, including his concepts of escalation and developmental dysplasia, and the creation of the Northridge Developmental Scale, a test for self-actualization. The commentary includes:  1). contemporary observations on the psychedelic stage in drugless experiential therapy, (“drug-free shamanism”) for a current approach to Gowan’s work, and 2). the qabalistic Tree of Life as an ancient map of consciousness and model of developmental escalation, interpreted in Gowan’s terms with historical perspective. Jung popularized Alchemy as another model of transmutation and transformation. Chakras are a yogic model of development not covered here.

Gowan’s work and taxonomies remain useful to the transdisciplinary community, including the fields of parapsychology, paranthropology, consciousness studies, psychotherapeutics, neurobiology, psychology of religion, child development, and more. In developing creative talent, imagery is more fluid and malleable to processing than language. He collates research from several then-new fields and provides valuable bibliographies of foundational works. While not widely known and applied, Gowan’s work remains a vital resource, deserving curation within the literature of all sciences researching psi, nonordinary, and exceptional experiences (anomalous, transpersonal; neither or both). Gowan’s work is invaluable for navigating the universe of meanings. Symbols are the currency of consciousness. They open the way for “ultraculture”, wherein we become conscious co-creators of reality.

Reflexive Praxis: Research by Looking Backwards –
Finding patterns in your past: Reflexive Praxis as an Esoteric Thesis Methodology in Search of Archaic Wisdom
by Paul Wildman, PhD & Iona Miller, 2012
Scientific God Journal

ABSTRACT: Many of us, as researchers, would find it challenging to let our research data speak to us rather that to see it exclusively as part of the methodological categories we have already developed. This article proposes a methodology called ‘Reflexive Praxis’, a form of action research, to do just this. As ‘Action Research’, such methodologies remain controversial compared with the more conventional Empirical Research’. Indeed any development of action research, such as reflexive praxis, may be expected to be treated with even more skepticism. Nonetheless this article seeks to explore reflexive praxis as one way with which the researcher can interrogate both her/his inner and outer worlds. It is hoped that by doing this as action researchers we may be able to apprehend new combinations and patterns in our research data and indeed our lived life. This in turn can help us as researchers encounter meta-meaning in these combinations.