Lawrence Wile

Lawrence Wile received a B.S. in physics from Union College (1971), an M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (1976), a post-doctoral fellowship from Yale University School of Medicine (1979) and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (1991). He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. His awards include an Air Force Commendation Medal and a first place prize in the John Templeton Foundation competition for his winning essay 'Reissner's Fiber and the Neurobiology of Mysticism’. His ideas about Reissner’s fiber have appeared in the Journal of Near-Death Studies, the Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies. He is currently the President of the Chaikin-Wile Foundation, leading a multidisciplinary team at Boston University dedicated to the exploration of Reissner’s fiber.

Works involving Lawrence Wile

The Jaynes Legacy

Shining New Light Through the Cracks of the Bicameral Mind
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Following on from Jaynes, this book suggests that the evolution of the relationship between consciousnesses, mass, energy, and spacetime radically changed nearly 6,000 years ago during the epigenetic, evolutionary degeneration of a little-known, threadlike structure originating from the center of the central nervous system called Reissner's fiber.

Works involving Lawrence Wile

The Jaynes Legacy

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