Introduction
Consciousness Education Project
Module 1
Guerts, K. (2002). Culture and the Senses. University of California Press.
Bencard, A. (2021). Epidemics before microbiology: stories from the plague in 1711 and cholera
in 1853 in Copenhagen. APMIS, Apr 29;129(7):372–380.
Kuhn, T. (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Redford, R. (1953) The Primitive World and Its Transformations. Cornell University Press.
Chalmers, D. J. (1996). The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. Oxford University Press.
James, W (1985). The varieties of religious experience. Harvard University Press, p. 308.
Module 2
Knezevic, N., et. al., (2025). Justice for Placebo: Placebo Effect in Clinical Trials and Everyday
Practice. Medicines (Basel), Feb 24;12(1):5.
Henry K. Beecher (1955). The Powerful Placebo, JAMA, 159(17): 1602-1606.
Bache, C., (2008) The Living Classroom: Teaching and the Collective Consciousness. SUNY
Press.
Module 3
Butler, A. and Randall, A. Emotional Coregulation in Close Relationships, Emotion Review, 2012,
(5):2.
Gavin L, MacKay AP, Brown K, et al. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Sexual
and reproductive health of persons aged 10–24 years – United States, 2002–2007. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2009;58(6):1–58.
Raichle, M. E., MacLeod, A. M., Snyder, A. Z., Powers, W. J., Gusnard, D. A., & Shulman, G. L.
(2001). A default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
98(2), 676-682.
Garrison, K., Zeffiro, T., Scheinost, D., Constable, R., & Brewer, J. (2015). Meditation leads to
reduced default mode network activity beyond an active task. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral
Neuroscience, 15(3): 712-720.
Hui, K. K. S., et al. (2010). Acupuncture, the limbic system, and the default mode
network: a reassurance. Autonomic Neuroscience, 157(1-2):81-90.
Palhano-Fontes, F., et al. (2015). The Psychedelic State Induced by Ayahuasca Modulates the Activity and Connectivity of the Default Mode Network. PLOS ONE.
Santarnecchi, E., et al. (2021) Mindfulness-based stress reduction training modulates striatal and
cerebellar connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 99(5):1235-1252
Hölzel, B., et al. (2011) Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter
Density. Psychiatry Research, 191(1):36-43.
Saint-Paul, A. (2025). Heart Leadership. Tapaut.
Module 4
Module 5
Mark, G. (2023). Attention span: A groundbreaking way to restore balance, happiness and
productivity. Harper Wave.
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Module 9
Module 10
Module 11
Conclusion
General Reading
Cornell, J. (1998). Sharing Nature with Children. DAWN Publications.
Kessler, R. (2000). The Soul of Education. Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development.
Shephard, P. (2017). Radical Wholeness. North Atlantic books.