How to Use this Course

This webcourse was designed with the intention to be an interactive and developing educational web resource for both teachers and students of consciousness.

Contents of this Unit Student Independent Study Interactive Options For Instructors Helping to Build the Course Additional Study Materials The PEAR Proposition Margins of Reality Reference publications

Student Independent Study

The webcourse was written for university level students and can be used as a self-guided course. It can be approached in discrete sections. Although some units will be shorter, we suggest that students allow a couple of hours to go through the material available for each unit, with additional time required to do the suggested activities. We encourage you to respond to the material in the discussion forums. Registration is free, and offers many ways to participate with the community of students and developers of this site.

Interactive Options
Forums: Questions about the material presented in the course material can be put to the community of developers and fellow students in the forums, where we are also collecting experiences, and responses to the suggested activities. Monitoring Future Developments: This course is being continually developed. If you would like to be notified as material changes, registered students can subscribe to feeds of the news blog, or you can choose to watch individual pages. You will be notified by email if a page you are watching changes. To watch a page, click the eye in the upper right hand corner of the central column.		Chat: A shoutbox is available to registered users in the bottom right column, feel free to chat with other online users. Organized Group Study: If students are looking for guidance through the course, or would be interested in participating online in a group setting, please contact us, as a supervised class may soon be formed. The cost of this course is as yet to be determined. Likewise, supervision of independent study may also be a possibility.

For Instructors

If you are a teacher of a course on consciousness and you use the resources provided here, we would like to hear from you. We would also make a few requests. First, help improve the content of the site. Offer your experience, outline a new course. Second, encourage student utilization of the site. Lastly, if you have a budget for course materials, please make a donation for the amount you would spend on an equivalent resource.

Helping to Build the Course

We would like to encourage users to help develop and edit future units to be incorporated into this course, as well as supplemental documents that can serve as resources for interested students or researchers. If you are interested, please Contact Us.

Additional Study Materials

While this course stands on it's own and does not require additional materials, the interested student may choose to enhance what is available here with additional study materials?. The PEAR Proposition DVD set (cache) and the book Margins of Reality (cache), by Jahn and Dunne are available for purchase, and enhance the web-content of this course.

The PEAR Proposition

This is a multi-disc DVD/Audio-CD set that offers the viewer a synopsis of the program’s history, a virtual tour of the PEAR laboratory, lectures by Bob Jahn, conversation between Bob Jahn and Brenda Dunne; and other material that attempts to capture the spirit and substance of the PEAR research program.

Margins of Reality

Margins of Reality is the primary text available on the work of the PEAR laboratory.
Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne (1988). Margins of Reality (cache). Harcourt Brace, ISBN: 978-0156572460.

Reference publications

Many publications and technical papers from the PEAR laboratory are available at http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/publications.html (cache).

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