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This is self-explanatory for people used to the World Wide Web. For others, read on.
The web is a helpful resource but quite confusing at first so a bit of guidance never goes astray. That's what a links page does. Below I first explain the rating system used to describe the overall quality of a website. Then come the links themselves. There is no topical organization but the higher ranked sites are listed at the top. Sites as yet unranked might be quite good but they are listed at the bottom anyway. Finally, I explain the cryptic abbreviations following annotations, which refer to the fine people who have contributed web links, annotations, and ratings for sites related to religious experience.
Index of Topics
Key to Abbreviations of Contributors
Rating System
The four-halo rating system is utterly objective, of course, but may need to be explained so that all of the universally applicable judgments expressed by its use are not merely announced (the cosmically important outcome) but also understood (we, too, are slaves to our pedagogically driven, bodhisattva-like compassion). The explanation may be somewhat technical but we ask you to bear with our attempts to break open web-centric phenomenological categories for the wider public.
| Rating | Meaning | Deeper Meaning |
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! | Inexpressible; transcending all categories of moral and aesthetic judgment; a genuinely irrational achievement; apophasis inducing |
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Wow! | Sartori is at hand, so close you can almost taste it; the dew drop is about to slip into the shining sea to become one with all other water droplets |
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Bad! | Ananda down under—which is the highest web-based quality permitted in Australia for public safety and medical reasons |
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Not bad! | Joy of the regular sort; no bright lights or angelic visitations but a warm and happy feeling, at least for the most part; could be happier |
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Mmmm... | Quotidian neutrality; the quintessential opposite of bipolar dynamism; the ordinary, easy-paced day off work with nothing much to do except nap |
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Well... | There is no there there; there is no soul there either; in fact, there is not even any no-soul there; more meditation is vital, and urgently! |
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! | Inexpressible; transcending all categories of moral and aesthetic judgment; a genuinely irrational achievement; apophasis inducing |
Links
The Rhine Research Center & Institute
for Parapsychology is a group that "aims to improve the human
condition by creating a scientific understanding of those abilities and
sensitivities that appear to transcend the ordinary limits of space and
time and by communicating that understanding in cogent and responsible
ways." The Rhine Research Center is the successor to the
(famed?) Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory. Its appears that this
site could be a goldmine for anyone whose interest is in PSI-EXPERIENCES.
Unfortunately, however, I have not been able to get very far into it
without my browser crashing. Perhaps someone else will have better luck! [TK]
The Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) is a group that
"encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and
fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and
disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to
the scientific community and the public." Although CSICOP is about
the debunking of paranormal claims, its site includes a lengthy annotated
bibliography of literature pertaining to the paranormal that may be of
some use. (Of course, it is also of use for those of you who, like me, are
skeptically minded, unregenerate neo-Kantians.) [TK]
The Alister Hardy Society
Religious Experience Research Centre is a group whose "object is
to further the study of religious and spiritual experience started by Sir
Alister Hardy" (who provided us with that exquisite list of the
characteristics of religious experiences). Though there does not seem to
be much of use on the website itself, its "links" page provides
some ostensibly interesting links, particularly to sites pertaining to
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES. The Centre also has a research collection of
first-hand accounts of religious experiences but that is not generally
available from the website. [TK]
Serendip Brain and Behavior Site [KYJ]
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/042001/ [KYJ]
http://www.parkridgecenter.org/cgi-bin/ [KYJ]
http://www.counterbalance.org/neuro/index-frame.html [KYJ]
http://www.georgetown.edu/centers/woodstock/report/r-fea53a.htm [KYJ]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html [KYJ]
http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&today [KYJ]
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/01/god_part/ [KYJ]
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/goodmorningamerica/ [KYJ]
http://www.pfizer.com/brain/ [KYJ]
http://mbb.harvard.edu/ [KYJ]
Key to Abbreviations of Contributors
The contributors to these web links are:
[TK] Tim Knepper, the intrepid teaching assistant for the Fall 2002 Religious Experience Research Seminar at Boston University
[KYJ] Kim YoungJu, a member of the Fall 2002 Religious Experience Research Seminar at Boston University
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