Papers by Henk Barendregt on meditation experiences (with oneliner comments)

[2007]

Het gevaarlijkste idee

Consciousness with its impressions, feelings, thoughts and intentions does not have a possessor,
no central headquarter for control (Dutch)

In: Gevaarlijke ideeën - De belangrijkste denkers van nu over wat zij een gevaarlijk idee vinden, Spectrum, 2007

De roes voorbij

Short version in Dutch of the cover-up model and the Abhidhamma Model

In: "Roes", Prometheus / Bert Bakker (Ed. Hafid Bouazza.)

[2006]

Mentaal evenwicht: labiel, stabiel en flexibel

Types of consciousness during mental development (Dutch)

Speling, september 58 (3), 2006, 29-34.

Consciousness: belief and hypothesis

Ideas on consciousness and hypotheses that may be verified or refuted. Dutch version

In: Ik geloof dat ..., maar heb geen bewijs. De belangrijkste denkers van nu over wat zij zeker menen te weten. Spectrum, Utrecht, 2006, 201-205.
(Dutch version of "What we believe but cannot prove", ed. John Brockman, Free Press, 2005.)

The Abhidhamma Model of Consciousness AM_0
and some of its consequences

Translating parts of the Abhidhamma in modern terms, revising the cover-up model. slides

In Buddhist Psychology: Practice, Research & Theory, Eds. M.G.T. Kwee, K.J. Gergen and F. Koshikawa.
Taos Institute Publishing, Taos, New Mexico, 2006.

[2005]

Reflection and its use: from Science to Meditation

Reflection as essential ingredient of many important phenomena, including mindfulness.

In: Spiritual Information, ed. Charles L. Harper, Jr., Templeton Foundation Press, 2005.

[2002]

 The Ancient Theory of Mind

Types of religions: belief versus mental development and seeing for oneself.
Ten days before 9/11 a plea for tolerance was made.

Lecture at Harvard (October 2001), Formal Aspects of Computing, 13, 2002, 422-429.

[1996]

Mysticism and beyond, Buddhist Phenomenology II (html) PDF

The cover-up model of the mind, a contemporary view on the four nobel truths.

The Eastern Buddhist, New Series, vol XXIX, 1996, 262-287.

[1988]

Buddhist Phenomenology I (html) PDF

Experience with vipassana; the three fundamental characteristics of existence.

Proceedings of the Conference on Topics and Perspectives of Contemporary Logic and Philosophy of Science,
Cesena, Italy, January 7-10, 1987, (Ed. M. dalla Chiara), Clueb, Bologna, 37-55.

[1964]

Neighbours

Motivation for my quest to understand consciousness.

Schoolkrant 'Klimax', Montessori Lyceum, Amsterdam.

The Quest (html)

An ongoing serial about motivations to follow the path