Following are links to websites of organizations affiliated with the Santa Barbara Institute, or whose focus is some aspect of consciousness studies:
Alan Wallace Online
www.alanwallace.org
Personal website of Santa Barbara Institute founder and president B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., a prolific writer on consciousness studies, Tibetan Buddhism and related subjects.(see
Alan Wallace's Teaching and Lecture Itinerary)Podcast Series
Carstensen Life-Span Development Lab (Stanford)
www-psych.stanford.edu/~lifespan
Research focused on the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that people use to adapt to life circumstances as they age.
Center for Mind and Brain (UC Davis)
mindbrain.ucdavis.edu
A scientific research center dedicated to the understanding of the human mind: how it evolved, develops in individuals, and arises from the myriad mental functions that humans possess.
Mindful Awareness Research Center (UCLA)
www.marc.ucla.edu
A research center whose focus is the study of mindful awareness, especially for the prevention and treatment of ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and related syndromes.
The Dalai Lama Foundation
www.dalailamafoundation.org
A foundation that supports development of a shared global capacity for ethics and peace, based on a non-dogmatic ethic of compassion.
From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela
www.iridia.ulb.ac.be/~bersini/Varela
Site for a conference in tribute to Francisco Varela, to be held June 18 – 20, 2004, in Paris, focusing on a complex-systems approach to fundamental processes of life, mind and human relations.
Investigating the Mind
www.investigatingthemind.org
Site for the Mind & Life Conference, held at MIT in September, 2003, promoting dialogue between Buddhism and the biobehavorial sciences on how the mind works.
Kagyu Changchub Chuling Vajrayana Buddhist Center
www.kcc.org
A center in the tradition of the late Kalu Rinpoche whose purpose is to support practitioners in their process of spiritual awakening.
Margaret E. Kemeny, Ph.D. (UC, San Francisco)
www.investigatingthemind.org/speakers.html#kemeny
Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Graduate Academic Program in Psychology at UC San Francisco, also directs a joint PhD program in Health Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at UCSF and UC Berkeley.
Mind & Life Institute
www.mindandlife.org
The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism.
Spirit in Business
www.spiritinbusiness.org
Building a community of business leaders who operate from their internal compasses, deep inspiration and inner values, and who understand that integrity, creative drive and ethics are internally formed rather than externally
imposed.
Department of Psychology (UC, Davis)
www.psychology.ucdavis.edu
Website for the UC Davis psychology department, several of whose faculty are involved in Santa Barbara Institute-related research projects.
Upaya
www.upaya.org
A Santa Fe-based Buddhist study center that offers courses and retreats on engaged spirituality and on contemplative care of the dying, as well as Zen training and meditation retreats.
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