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Consciousness, Systems & Living Organization
EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS, PSYCHE, COHERENCE, CREATIVITY, HEALING, AND TRANSFORMATION THROUGH RELATIONAL AND LIVING-SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVES.
How does living organization shape consciousness and transformation?
Research Questions
- What is consciousness within a relational and participatory reality?
- How are mind, body, relationships, and environment interconnected?How does coherence emerge within living systems?
- How do living systems reorganize through change, disruption, and transformation?
- How does creativity emerge through participation and relationship?What processes support psychological healing and restoration?
- What can altered states, dreams, near-death experiences, and other transformations reveal about consciousness?
- How do recurring patterns of organization shape development and experience?
Current Research
Consciousness studies
Relational psyche
Living systems
Coherence and transformation
Archetypes
Creativity and emergence
Healing and restoration
Systems approaches to psychology
project 1
The Relational Cosmos Reconsidered
Reinterprets consciousness within a relational cosmology linking mind, life, and the wider universe
project 2
From Intrinsic Existence to Relational Participation
Explores consciousness through participation in relationships, embodiment, and a wider living reality.
project 3
Unus Mundus and Tjukurrpa
Brings Jung’s Unus Mundus into dialogue with Tjukurrpa around relational understandings of psyche and reality.
project 4
Archetypes as Living Fields
Explores archetypes as dynamic relational fields shaping experience, meaning, development, and participation.
project 5
Toward a Phase Conjugate Psychology
Develops a systems-based psychology in which transformation and healing involve the restoration of coherence.
project 6
Kanyini and the Relational Psyche
Explores the psyche as sustained through relationships of belonging, care, responsibility, and participation.
project 7
The Healing Field
Investigates healing as restoration of relational coherence across psychological, biological, and social dimensions.
project 8
Restoration: Coherence, Healing, and Spiritual Renewal Across Living Systems
Develops a relational framework for understanding restoration across persons, communities, and living systems.
project 9
Near-Death Experiences as Developmental Integration Events
Examines near-death experiences as events capable of reorganising identity, consciousness, meaning, and purpose.
project 10
Mental Health as Relational Coherence
Explores mental health through coherent participation in relationships and wider relational environments.
project 11
Xenon Anesthesia and the Collapse of Coherent Informational Integration
Investigates anesthesia through temporary disruption of informational integration associated with conscious experience.