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The Santa Barbara Institute is dedicated to interdisciplinary research and
education to advance understanding of the nature and potentials of consciousness.
Its comprehensive approach integrates the insights and techniques of contemporary
science with those of the world’s classic contemplative and philosophical
traditions.
Consciousness studies are at a critical juncture. It is now possible for the
first time to synthesize rigorous scientific research in such disciplines as
neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry with the techniques of consciousness
study and development found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,
and Taoism.
The Santa Barbara Institute was established as a nexus for advancing interdisciplinary
and cross-cultural understanding that joins scientific knowledge and spiritual
practice. It is a non-sectarian organization that reaches out to the scientific
and academic communities, a variety of contemplative traditions, and the general
public.
The Institute was founded in 2003 as a not-for-profit organization and has
its headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. Start-up activities are its focus
in 2004, with a full-scale public launch to occur in early 2005.
The Santa Barbara Institute’s activities focus on three inter-related
fields of endeavor:
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The Santa Barbara Institute embodies ‘balance.’ [It] balances pure
and applied research, inquiry and education, science and spirit, first- and
third-person approaches, East and West. I heartily welcome the project, with
its goal of well-being through balanced living.
Rev. Anthony Freeman, Managing Editor, Journal of Consciousness Studies
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