Publications – Nonsymbolic

Recommended Publications, Talks, and Interviews

Peer Reviewed Journal and Conference Publications Related to this Research:

  • Delorme, A. & Martin, J.A. (2021). Automated Data Cleaning for the Muse EEG. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). (Download Paper)
  • 2021, December, The Martin Matrix: A Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience, Society for Consciousness Studies Annual Conference, Online.
  • Martin, J.A., Ericson, M., Berwaldt, A., Stephens, E.D., & Briner, L. (2021). Effects of Two Online Positive Psychology and Meditation Programs on Persistent Self-Transcendence. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
  • Martin, J.A. (2020).  Clusters of Individuals Experiences form a Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults , CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century, 8(8).
  • 2020, December, A Year of Breakthroughs in Persistent Non-Symbolic Consciousness Research, Society for Consciousness Studies Annual Conference, Online.
  • 2019, September, The Finders Course Experiments, Zen 2.0, Kamakura, Japan.
  • 2019, June, An Update on The Finders Course Experiments, Society for Consciousness Studies, Yale University, CT.
  • 2019, May, A Summary of the Scientific Research into Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience, Science and Buddhism III, Seattle, WA.
  • 2019, April, A Continuum of Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults, Association of Transpersonal Psychology 50th Annual Conference, Pacific Grove, CA.
  • 2019, April, A Continuum of Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults, Mystics and Scientists, London, UK.
  • 2019, April, The Path to Freedom: Attaining Non-Symbolic Consciousness, Mystics and Scientists, London, UK.
  • 2018, April, Psychometric Changes Correlate to Degree of Non-Symbolic Experience in Adults, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ (with Ari Berwaldt).
  • 2018, April, Consciousness Hacking Workshop, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2018, March, Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience and the Finders Course Experiments, Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Mills, P.J., Peterson, C.T., Pung, M.A., Patel, S., Weiss, L., Doraiswamy, P.M., Martin, J.A., Tanzi, R.E., & Chopra, D. (2018) Change in Sense of Nondual Awareness and Spiritual Awakening in Response to a Multidimensional Well-Being Program. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 24(4).
  • 2017, June, The Finders Course Experiments, Society for Consciousness Studies, Yale University, CT.
  • 2017, June, Consciousness Technology Workshop, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, San Diego, CA.
  • 2017, June, Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience and Transformative Technology, Consciousness, Science, Technology and Society Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • 2017, June, Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience, Buddhism and New Technology Conference, Shanghai, China.
  • 2017, May, The Solution To “The Human Condition,” International Academy of Consciousness Conference, Miami, FL.
  • 2017, April, Publishing Research, Doctoral Retreat, Sofia University, Palo Alto, CA.
  • 2016, November, Transformative Technology, Western Association of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Conference, San Francisco, CA.
  • 2016, April, Four Month Meditation and Positive Psychology Intervention Shows Highly Significant Results on Well-being, Positive and Negative Emotion, Depression, Stress, Narcissism, and Non-Symbolic Experience, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2016, April, Transformative Technology Workshop, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ .
  • 2016, April, Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience: Traditional Methods to Transformative Technology, Western Association of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Regional Conference, Woodland Hills, CA.
  • 2016, January, Featured Alumni Research Presentation, California Institute for Integral Studies, Pacifica, CA.
  • 2015, August, Self-Transcendence: Was Maslow On To Something, Foundations of Mind II, UC Berkeley, CA.
  • 2015, June, The Finders Course Experiments, Society for Consciousness Studies, Yale University, CT.
  • 2014, May, A Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience in Adults, Society for Consciousness Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA.
  • 2014, April, Affecting States of Consciousness and Worldview Using Video Game Technologies (with Gino Yu) Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2014, April, The Consciousness Science Ontology: A Integrative Resource for Consciousness Studies (with Chris Fields , Allan Leslie Combs, Eric Dietrich, James Fallon, and Fabio Macciardi), Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2014, April, A Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience in Adults, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2014, April, Towards a Standardized Curriculum of Consciousness Studies (with Allan Combs), Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2013, March, A Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience in Adults, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Agra, India.
  • Yu, G., Martin, J.A., & Chai, P. (2012). Shifting worldview using video game technologies, in Video game play and consciousness. Gachenbach, J. (ed). Nova Science Publishers.
  • 2012, April, Engineering Enlightenment, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2012, April, The Relationship Between Ego Development and Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2012, April, Shifting Worldview Using Video Game Technologies, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
  • 2011, December, Engineering Persistent Non-Symbolic Consciousness, Science of Consciousness Conference, Hong Kong.
  • 2011, December, Psychological and Neurological Correlates of Enlightenment, Humanity+ Conference, Hong Kong.
  • 2011, September, The Path of Freedom, Science and Buddhism III, Singapore, Singapore.
  • 2011, September, The Science Behind Persistent Non-Symbolic Consciousness, mBig Conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  • 2011, April, Where Are The Mystics?, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 2011, February, What Can The Study of ‘Enlightenment’ Tell Us About Human Potential? Sages and Scientists Conference, Carlsbad, CA.
  • Martin, J.A. (2010). Ego development does not predict persistent non-symbolic experience. Dissertation. California Institute of Integral Studies
  • 2010, November, Empirically Testing Purported Claims of Enlightenment. Science of Consciousness Forum, Hong Kong.
  • 2010, October, closed sessions, Synchro Summit @ Yale, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • 2010, June, Empirically Testing Purported Non-Symbolic Consciousness Claims using Standard Psychological Methods and Instruments. 14th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada.
  • 2010, April, Empirically Testing Purported Claims of Enlightenment using Standard Psychological Methods and Instruments. Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona.
  • 2009, September, Empirically Investigating Nondual Consciousness. Science and Nonduality Conference, San Rafael, California.
  • Martin, J.A. (2008). Integral research as a practical mixed-methods framework: Clarifying the role of integral methodological pluralism. Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, 3(2), 155-164.
  • 2008, November, Beyond the mind…Unity Consciousness and AI? Convergence 08. Sunnyvale, California (with Allan Combs).
  • 2008, August, Using Integral Research to Visualize, Plan, and Maximize the Success of Complex Mainstream Academic Research Projects. Integral Theory Conference. San Francisco, California.
  • 2008, April, Cooperative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence, Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, Illinois.
  • Martin, J.A. (2007). An exploration of powerful power of thought experiences. Journal of Conscious Evolution, 3.
  • Martin, J.A. (2007). An exploration of core power of thought concepts in relation to theories involving quantum mechanics. Dynamical Psychology, 2007(1).

The Martin Matrix, a Comprehensive Map of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience keynote talk from the Society for Consicousness Studies annual conference (2021)

Watch the best full presentation of our scientific data, from a keynote delivered for the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a division of the American Anthropology Society, 2018 conference.

Just want to quickly scan through some of the data? You can download a PDF of the presentation by clicking here.

Watch an earlier presentation of the data from the Society for Consciousness Studies annual conference at Yale University in 2015.

Fundamental Wellbeing Continuum