Acknowledgments

It is customary in any research publication to acknowledge each of those individuals and organizations who have contributed significantly to the accomplishments of its goals. For an anthology of this scope, however, such a list would be prohibitively long, and we must restrict such expressions of gratitude to those who have had the most profound and enduring impact over the course of the program.

For their indispensable financial support, we thankfully list Richard and Connie Adams, Trammell Crow, John E. Fetzer, William Higgins, HSH Hans Adam von Liechtenstein, James S. McDonnell, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr., Laurance S. Rockefeller, and Donald C. Webster; and several non-profit foundations including the BIAL Foundation, the Hygeia Foundation, the Institute für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene, the Izunome Association, the Lifebridge Foundation, and the McDonnell Foundation. The numerous other individuals and agencies who have contributed more incidentally, or have preferred to remain anonymous, are also gratefully acknowledged, en bloc.

A second category of gratitude must be extended to the hundreds of experimental operators who, inspired solely by their own interest, without identification or compensation, have provided us with the immense reservoir of empirical data from which our understanding has grown. The authors also must thank those extraordinarily dedicated members of our research and support staffs who over many years, far beyond the normal requisites of their positions, have endured professional and personal challenges that would have buckled the knees of most conventional academic scholars. Like many other rag-tag insurrections throughout intellectual history, this noble band has swayed the future course of human comprehension, in a manner yet to be fully consummated. We are honored to have served with them.

Preparation of this anthology was enabled by a gift from the Samueli Institute, which also provided a major portion of the printing and distribution costs. Other substantial contributions were made by the Center for Functional Research, Elsevier, the Global Consciousness Project, the International Consciousness Research Laboratories, the Psyleron Corporation, and a few anonymous private donors. The authors are unspeakably grateful to their colleague Elissa Hoeger for the monumental amount of technical editorial assistance she lavished in converting the sundry manuscripts included herein to the requisite journal style.