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2008

• Indian Psychology’s Coming of Age (Report on the National Seminar on Indian Psychology: Theories and Models, SVYASA, Bangalore, India, 26-28 December 2007), Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (5), 121–26 [PDF available on request].
• Beyond Natural Selection and Intelligent Design: Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Evolution, AntiMatters 2 (2), 9–31 [PDF].
• Radical constructivism — childhood’s end, AntiMatters 2 (1), 17–25 [PDF].
  
• Realism: the bane of science education, and what can be done about it, AntiMatters 2 (1), 27–37 [PDF].
• There’s no leaving the bubble of consciousness: Herbert Müller’s 0-D epistemology, AntiMatters 2 (1), 39-45 [PDF].
• As far as longing can reach... Presented at Sri Aurobindo... The New Dynamism of the Material and the Spiritual, conference held at Auroville, India, February 15-17, 2008 [PDF].
• The Veil of Avidya. Presented at the International Seminar on Understanding Consciousness: Recent Advances, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India, 18-20 January 2008 [PDF, PPSX for MS Office 2007 (1029 KB), PPT for older versions of PowerPoint (3365 KB)].
• Wrong reasons and right reasons why contemporary physics favors a spiritual world view. Presented at World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 5-8 January 2008 [PPSX for MS Office 2007 (1225 KB), PPT for older versions of PowerPoint (4525 KB)].
• The Controversy over the Nature of Time-Symmetric Quantum Counterfactuals: A Response to Kastner. arXiv:0801.2215 [PDF].
  

2007

2005

• The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics: An overview, PRAMANA—Journal of Physics 64 (2), 171–185 (2005); quant-ph/0412182 [PDF].
• Beyond causality... the quantum liberation, presented at the National Conference on Integral Psychology and... Transformation, Auroville, India, January 11–13, 2005 [PDF].
• Comment on "Quantum physics from A to Z", quant-ph/0508212 [PDF].
• What the bleep do we know?, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture, December, 1124–1131. [PDF].

• Do quantum states evolve? Apropos of Marchildon's remarks, Foundations of Physics 34 (1), 75–97 (2004); quant-ph/0307113 [PDF].
• This elusive objective existence, International Journal of Quantum Information 2 (2), 201–220 (2004); quant-ph/0401179 [PDF].
• Probabilities from envariance?, International Journal of Quantum Information 2 (2), 221–230 (2004); quant-ph/0401180 [PDF].
• Psychology all the way down, presented at the National Conference on Indian Psychology, Yoga, and Consciousness, Pondicherry, India, December 10–13, 2004 [PDF].

• The world according to quantum mechanics (Or the 18 errors of Henry P. Stapp), Foundations of Physics 32 (2), 217–254 (2002); quant-ph/0105097 [PDF].
• Reflections on the spatiotemporal aspects of the quantum world, Modern Physics Letters A 17 (15-17), 1107–1122 (2002); quant-ph/0205058 [PDF] (invited talk at the First Meeting on the Interface of Gravitational and Quantum Realms held at IUCAA, Pune, India, December 17–21, 2001).
• Making sense of a world of clicks, Foundations of Physics 32 (8), 1295–1311 (2002); quant-ph/0202148 [PDF].
• Why the laws of physics are just so, Foundations of Physics 32 (8), 1313–1324 (2002); quant-ph/0202149 [PDF].

• Objective probabilities, quantum counterfactuals, and the ABL rule: A response to R. E. Kastner, American Journal of Physics 69 (8), 864–873 (2001); quant-ph/0006116 [PDF].
• Beyond the cookie cutter paradigm, in Consciousness and its Transformation: Papers presented at the Second International Conference on Integral Psychology, edited by M. Cornelissen (SAICE, Pondicherry, 2001), 333–345 [PDF]. This paper is also available at the website of the Indian Psychology Institute [html].
  
• Quantum mechanics and consciousness: fact and fiction, quant-ph/0102047 [PDF].
• Unveiled reality: comment on d'Espagnat's note on measurement, quant-ph/0102103 [PDF].
• One hundred years of quantum physics, talk at the SAICE, May 2001 [PDF].
• A space for the quantum world, quant-ph/0107005 [PDF].
• Two theories of decoherence, quant-ph/0108002 [PDF].
• Against 'knowledge' , quant-ph/0109150 [PDF].

• What quantum mechanics is trying to tell us (a.k.a. The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics), American Journal of Physics 68 (8), 728–745 (2000); quant-ph/9903051 [PDF].
• The One, the Many, and the Quantum, quant-ph/0005110 [PDF].
• Quantum mechanics and the cookie cutter paradigm, quant-ph/0009001 [PDF].

• Objectivity, retrocausation, and the experiment of Englert, Scully and Walther, American Journal of Physics 67 (4), 330–335 (1999).
• The physics of interactionism, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (8–9), 165–184 (1999); reprinted in The Volitional Brain, edited by B. Libet, A. Freeman, and K. Sutherland (Imprint Academic, 1999), 165–184 [PDF].
• Quantum mechanics and elements of reality, 1999, quant-ph/9904081 [PDF].
• Interactionism, energy conservation, and the violation of physical laws, Physics Essays 10 (4), 651–665 (1997) [PDF].
• Restoration of interference and the fallacy of delayed choice: concerning an experiment proposed by Englert, Scully and Walther, American Journal of Physics 64 (12), 1468–1475 (1996).
• Sri Aurobindo for Gebserians, presented at the XI International Gebser Conference, University of Shippensburg, PA, USA, November 1992 [PDF].
• Agenda of an Integral Consciousness Mutation / World Transformation, presented at the XI International Gebser Conference, University of Shippensburg, PA, USA, November 1992 [PDF]. (The last two talks are also available as a single DOC file from the website of the Jean Gebser Society.)

Updated: 30 April 2008