I appreciate your interest in my work. Most of my papers that were published before 2018 are available in open access format through Scholarship@Western on Western University's server: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/do/search/?q=author_lname%3A%22Baru%C5%A1s%22%20AND%20author_fname%3A%22Imants%22&start=0&context=674312&sort=date_desc&facet=. The open access versions of more recent papers are available on this page. If you cannot access a paper that you want to read, please contact me and I will provide you with a copy.
Books
Barušs, I. (1990). The personal nature of notions of consciousness: A theoretical and empirical examination of the role of the personal in the understanding of consciousness. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Barušs, I. (1996). Authentic knowing: The convergence of science and spiritual aspiration. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press.
Barušs, I. (2003). Alterations of consciousness: An empirical analysis for social scientists. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Barušs, I. (2007). Science as a spiritual practice. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic.
Barušs, I. (2013). The impossible happens: A scientist’s personal discovery of the extraordinary nature of reality. Alresford, Hampshire, UK: John Hunt Publishing.
Barušs, I. & Mossbridge, J. (2017). Transcendent mind: Rethinking the science of consciousness. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Barušs, I. (2020). Alterations of consciousness: An empirical analysis for social scientists (second edition). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Barušs, I. (2021). Radical transformation: The unexpected interplay of consciousness and reality. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic.
Barušs, I. (2023). Death as an Altered State of Consciousness: A Scientific Approach. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Papers |†Invited | ‡Refereed |
Barušs, I. (1986). Quantum mechanics and human consciousness. Physics in Canada/La Physique au Canada, 42(1), 3–5.
Barušs, I. (1987). The use of computers in psychological assessment. Saskatchewan Psychologist, 87(1), 3–7.‡
Barušs, I. (1987). Metanalysis of definitions of consciousness. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 6(4), 321–329.‡
Barušs, I. (1989). Categorical modelling of Husserl's intentionality. Husserl Studies, 6, 25–41.‡
Barušs, I. & Moore, R. J. (1989). Notions of consciousness and reality. In J. E. Shorr, P. Robin, J. A. Connella and M. Wolpin (Eds.), Imagery: Current perspectives (pp. 87–92). New York: Plenum.†
Barušs, I. (1990). Optical models of consciousness. Consciousness Review, 1, 63–67.
Barušs, I. & Moore, R. J. (1992). Measurement of beliefs about consciousness and reality. Psychological Reports, 71, 59–64.‡
Baruss, I. (1992). Opinion. Physics in Canada/La Physique au Canada, 48(2), 107.
Barušs, I. (1992). Contemporary issues concerning the scientific study of consciousness. Anthropology of Consciousness, 3(3 & 4), 28–35.†‡
Barušs, I. (1993, February). Apziņas nevietējās īpatnības [Non-local properties of consciousness]. Viedas Vēstis, pp. 12–15.†
Barušs, I. (1993). Can we consider matter as ultimate reality? Some fundamental problems with a materialist interpretation of reality. Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, 16(3–4), 245–254.‡
Baruss, I. (1993). Contemporary issues concerning the scientific study of consciousness. Bulletin of Anomalous Experience, 4(3), 14–17.† [reprinted from Anthropology of Consciousness]
Barušs, I. & Moore, R. J. (Spring, 1997). Beliefs about consciousness and reality: Highlights of Tucson II consciousness survey. Consciousness Bulletin, pp. 5–6.†
Barušs, I. & Moore, R. J. (1998). Beliefs about consciousness and reality of participants at ‘Tucson II’. Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science & the Humanities, 5(4), 483–496.‡
Barušs, I. (2000). Overview of consciousness research. Informatica: An International Journal of Computing and Informatics, 24(2), 269-273.†‡
Barušs, I. (2000). Psychopathology of altered states of consciousness. Journal of Baltic Psychology, 1(1), 12–26.†
Barušs, I. (2000). Transition to transcendence: Franklin Merrell-Wolff’s mathematical yoga. Integralis: Journal of Integral Consciousness, Culture, and Science, 1(0). Retrieved September 14, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://rocky.unca.edu/~combs/IntegralAge/Wolff.htm†
Jewkes, S. & Barušs, I. (2000). Personality correlates of beliefs about consciousness and reality. Advanced Development: A Journal on Adult Giftedness, 9, 91–103.†‡
Barušs, I. (2001). The art of science: Science of the future in light of alterations of consciousness. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15(1), 57–68.†
Heintz, L. & Barušs, I. (2001). Spirituality in late adulthood. Psychological Reports, 88, 651–654.‡
Barušs, I. (2001). Failure to replicate electronic voice phenomenon. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15(3), 355–367.†
Woods, K. & Barušs, I. (2004). Experimental test of possible psychological benefits of past-life regression. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 18(4), 597–608.‡
Lukey, N. & Barušs, I. (2005). Intelligence correlates of transcendent beliefs: A preliminary study. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 24(3), 259–270.‡
Barušs, I. (2006). Quantum theories of consciousness. Baltic Journal of Psychology, 7(1), 39–45.‡
Barušs, I. (2007). Extraordinary aspects of reality in altered states of consciousness. In A. Eisen and G. Laderman (Eds.), Science, religion, and society: An encyclopedia of history, culture, and controversy (pp. 575–583). Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.†‡
Barušs, I. (2007). An experimental test of instrumental transcommunication. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 21(1), 89–98.‡
Barušs, I. (2007). Franklin Wolff’s mathematical resolution of existential issues. Journal of Scientific Exploration 21(4), 751–756.
Barušs, I. (2008). Quantum mind: Conscious intention in the context of quantum mechanics. Dydaktyka Literatury, 28, 31–40.†
Barušs, I. (2008). Beliefs about consciousness and reality: Clarification of the confusion concerning consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(10–11), 277–292.†‡
Barušs, I. (2008). Characteristics of consciousness in collapse-type quantum mind theories. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 29(3), 255–265.‡
Wammes, M. & Barušs, I. (2009). Characteristics of spontaneous musical imagery. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(1), 37–61.‡
Barušs, I. (2009). Speculations about the direct effects of intention on physical manifestation. Journal of Cosmology, 3, 590–599.†‡ [open access: http://journalofcosmology.com/QuantumConsciousness110.html]
Barušs, I. (2010). Beyond scientific materialism: Toward a transcendent theory of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17(7-8), 213–231.†‡
Barušs, I. (2011). Speculations about the direct effects of intention on physical manifestation. In S. Kak (Ed.), Quantum physics of consciousness. Cosmology Science Publishers.†‡ [reprinted from Journal of Cosmology]
Bal, M. & Barušs, I. (2011). Perceived parental attachment and achievement motivation. Psychological Reports, 109(3), 940–948.‡
Barušs, I. (2012). What we can learn about consciousness from altered states of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 3(7), 805–819. [open access: http://www.jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/227]
Barušs, I. (2012). [On the study of consciousness.] Existentia: psihologija i psihoterapija 5, 88–113. (Russian-language journal)†
Barušs, I. (2013). A list of alterations of consciousness. Hypnology: The Journal of Hypnosis and Consciousness Exploration, 1, 20–22.† [Extract from “What we can learn about consciousness from altered states of consciousness”]
Barušs, I., & Woodrow, R. (2013). A reduction theorem for the Kripke-Joyal semantics: Forcing over an arbitrary category can always be replaced by forcing over a complete Heyting algebra. Logica Universalis, 7(3), 323–334. (DOI: 10.1007/s11787-013-0084-y)‡
Barušs, I. (2013). Learning to forget: Deprogramming as a precondition for the occurrence of non-dual states of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 4(8), 816–832.‡ [open access: http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/326/352]
Barušs, I. (2014). The politics of science. Hypnology: The Journal of Hypnosis and Consciousness Exploration, 2, 37–38.† [Extract from Science as a Spiritual Practice]
Barušs, I. & Rabier, V. (2014). Failure to replicate retrocausal recall. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1(1), 82–91.‡
Barušs, I. (2014). Rethinking the inevitability of aging. Hypnology: The Journal of Hypnosis and Consciousness Exploration, 3, 39–41.† [Edited extract from “Learning to forget: Deprogramming as a precondition for the occurrence of non-dual states of consciousness”]
Barušs, I. (2014). Questions about interacting with invisible intelligences. EdgeScience 18, 18–19.†
Barušs, I. (2014). A vision for the Society for Consciousness Studies. Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 5(6) 551–555.‡ [Guest Editorial]
Barušs, I., van Lier, C., & Ali, D. (2014). Alterations of consciousness at a self-development seminar: A Matrix Energetics seminar survey. Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, 5(11), 1064–1086.‡
Barušs, I. (2017). Consciousness: Where we are at. Consciousness: Ideas and Research for the Twenty First Century, 2(5), 1–7.†
Barušs, I. & Mossbridge, J. (2018). Mind-boggling chicks. Response to Broderick. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 32(1), 159–160.†
Schwartz, G. E., Woollacott, M., Schwartz, S., Barušs, I., Beauregard, M., Dossey, L., Kafatos, M., Miller, L., Mossbridge, J., Radin, D, & Tart, C. (2018). The Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences: Integrating Consciousness into Mainstream Science, Explore, 14(2), 111–113.
Barušs, I. (2018). Meaning fields: Meaning beyond the human as a resolution of boundary problems introduced by nonlocality. EdgeScience, 35, 8–11.† [open access here]
Barušs, I. (2019). Categorical modelling of conscious states. Consciousness: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century, 7(7), 1–10.‡ [open access: https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/conscjournal/vol7/iss7/1/]
Peckham, S. B., Ionson, E., Nassim, M., Ojha, K., Palaniyappan, L., Gati, J., Thebérge, J., Lazosky, A., Speechley, M., Barušs, I., Rej, S., & Vasudev, A. (2019). Sahaj Samadhi meditation vs a Health Enhancement Program in improving late-life depression severity and executive function: Study protocol for a two-site, randomized controlled trial. Trials, 20(1), 605. doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3682-z‡ [open access: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-019-3682-z]
Collesso, T., Forrester, M., & Barušs, I. (2021).The effects of meditation and visualization on the direct mental influence of random event generators. Journal of Scientific Exploration 35(2), 313–346.‡ [open access: https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/1891]
Barušs, I. (2022). Reflections on writing about death. EdgeScience, 49, 12–15.† [open access: https://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/49]
Kadler, G., Vasudev, A., Ionson, E., & Barušs, I. (2022). Unintended deviations of a random event generator by patients with late life depression and anxiety during a direct mental influence task. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 210(4), 282–289.‡ [publisher's web page for paper: jnmd; open access version: here]
Braude, S. E., Barušs, I., Delorme, A., Radin, D., Wahbeh, H. (2022). *Not* so fast: A response to Augustine's critique of the BICS contest. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 3(2), 399–411. [open access: https://doi.org/10.31275/20222649]
Thomas, K., & Barušs, I.(2022). Psychological
characteristics and state integration of a persistent altered state of
consciousness following an eighteen week self-development course. Psychology
of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 9(4), 379–405.
[publisher's version:
https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000297; open access version:
here]
Reviews
Barušs, I. (1990). [Review of Consciousness by W. Lycan]. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9(2), 179–182.
Barušs, I. (1992). [Review of A cognitive theory of consciousness by B. Baars]. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 11(3), 303–307.
Barušs, I. (1992). [Review of Inevitable grace by P. Ferrucci]. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 24(1), 103–104.
Barušs, I. (1995). [Review of The psychology of consciousness by G. W. Farthing]. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 14(4), 353–355.
Barušs, I. (1998). [Review of Consciousness reconsidered by O. Flanagan]. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 18(2), 167–170.
Barušs, I. (2001). [Review of The vast enquiring soul: Explorations into the further reaches of consciousness by R. Russell]. Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science & the Humanities, 8(1), 93–94.
Barušs, I. (2001). [Review of Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence edited by E. Cardeña, S. J. Lynn & S. Krippner]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15(1), 143‒146.
Barušs, I. (2001). [Review of The PK man: A true story of mind over matter by J. Mishlove]. Journal of Consciousness Studies: Controversies in Science & the Humanities, 8(8), 95–96.
Barušs, I. (2002). [Review of books by and about Franklin Merrell-Wolff]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 16(2), 304–305.
Barušs, I. (2002). [Review of DMT: The spirit molecule by Rick Strassman]. Journal of Scientific Exploration 16(3), 503–505.
Barušs, I. (2003). [Review of Saints and madmen: Psychiatry opens its doors to religion by Russell Shorto and Feet of clay: A study of gurus by Anthony Storr]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 17(3), 553–555.
Barušs, I. (2004). [Review of The antipodes of the mind: Charting the phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience by Benny Shanon]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 18(3), 494–497.
Foskett, S. & Barušs, I. (2007). [Review of The pear proposition: Scientific study of consciousness-related physical phenomena: A quarter century of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, 2 DVD and 1 Audio CD multimedia set produced by Strip Mind Media]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 21(1), 215–218.
Barušs, I. (2007). [Review of The mindful universe: Quantum mechanics and the participating observer by Henry P. Stapp]. Journal of Scientific Exploration 21(3), 622–623.
Barušs, I. (2008). [Review of The gold leaf lady and other parapsychological investigations by Stephen E. Braude]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22(2), 245–247.
Barušs, I. (2008). [Review of The intention experiment: Using your thoughts to change your life and the world by Lynne McTaggart]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22(2), 262–263.
Barušs, I. (2008). [Review of The head trip: Adventures on the wheel of consciousness by Jeff Warren]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22(3), 441–442.
Barušs, I. (2011). [Review of Electronic voices: Contact with another dimension? By Anabela Cardoso]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25(3), 600–604.
Barušs, I. (2011). [Review of Consciousness explained better: Towards an integral understanding of the multifaceted nature of consciousness by Allan Combs.] Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25(4), 836–837.
Barušs, I. (2012). [Review of Matrix energetics: The science and art of transformation and The physics of miracles: Tapping into the field of consciousness potential by Richard Bartlett]. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 26(1), 169–176.
Barušs, I. (2016, June). [Brief synopsis of A rough ride to the future by James Lovelock]. Continuum: The Newsletter of The Society For Consciousness Studies, 3, pp. 12–13.
Barušs, I. (2016, July). [Brief review of The foolish dharma of an idiot clothed in mud and feathers by Düdjom Lingpa]. Continuum: The Newsletter of The Society For Consciousness Studies, 4, p. 9.
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