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Journal Articles in the Humanities:


1. “Goethe's Theory of Color and Scientific Intuition," American Journal of Physics 44, pp. 327-333 (1977).


2. “The Two Lights," The Lindisfarne Letter, 14 (1982), pp. 53-82 and in Homage to Pythagoras.


3. “Facts as Theory: Aspects of Goethe's Philosophy of Science," Columbia Teachers College Record, 85 (Winter 1983), pp. 251-74; and in Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal, F. Amrine, F. Zucker and H. Wheeler, editors (Reidel, Boston, 1986).


4. “The Wearer of Shapes: Goethe's Study of Clouds and Weather," Orion Nature Quarterly. Winter 1984. Reprinted in 1986 The Golden Blade.


5. “Computer Pedagogy? Questions Concerning the New Educational Technology," Columbia Teachers College Record, 85 (Summer 1984), pp. 569-77. also published in book form by Columbia University Press (1986).


6. “The Geometry of Life: Towards a Science of Form," Orion Nature Quarterly, Winter 1985, pp. 48-59. A discussion of attempts to capture the forms of life in mathematics, especially recent work in projective geometry.


7. “The Earth's Many-Colored Mantle," Orion Nature Quarterly. Winter 1985. On the cultural and scientific history of rainbows, lightning and the aurora.


8. “Light and Cognition: The Imperatives of Science," in Gaia 2: Emergence, the Science of Becoming, edited by William IrwinThompson, papers from the conference "Biology as a Basis of Design," Perugia, Italy, (Lindisfarne Press, 1991).


9. “Science Within an Ecology of Mind: Alternatives in Educational Reform," Holistic Education Review, September 1992.


10. “New Wine in What Kind of Wineskins? Metaphysics and Science in the 21st Century," in New Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, edited by Willis Harman and Jane Clark (Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1994).


11. “Buddhism Technology: Bringing a New Consciousness to Our Technological Future," lecture for the E. F. Schumacher Society, 1997. Published in Annals of Earth (1998) and by Schumacher Society as booklet (http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/frameset_publication.html).


12. "Goethe and the Phenomenological Investigation of Consciousness," proceedings from the 1998 conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness III," eds. S. Hammeroff, A. Kaszniak, and D. Chalmers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999)


13. “Molding the Self, The Common Cognitive Sources of Science and Religion” in Education as Transformation, edited by Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr. and Peter L. Laurence (NY:Peter Lang, 2000), pp 59-68.


14. “Spirituality in Higher Education: Overcoming the Divide,” Liberal Education, (Journal of the American Association of Colleges and Universities) Winter 2003, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 50-58.


15. “Survey of the Transformative and Spiritual Dimensions of Higher Education” http://www.contemplativemind.org/resources/pubs.html and in the Journal of Transformative Education, vol. 1, no.3 July 2003, pp.177-211, with Maia Duerr and Diane Dana.


16. “Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning Through Contemplation,” Teachers College Record, vol. 108, no. 9, September 2006, pp. 1742-1759. Reprinted also in the Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning under the title “Cognitive-Affective Connections in Teaching and Learning: The Relationship between Love and Knowledge.”

17. “Science and Spirituality: Finding the Right Map,” book chapter in Integrative Learning and Action: a Call to Wholeness, edited by Susan M. Awbrey, Diane Dana, Vachel W. Miller, Phyllis Robinson, Merle M. Ryan and David K. Scott (NY: Peter Lang, 2006) pp. 57-80.


18. “Human Endogenous Development,” Moving Worldviews: Reshaping sciences, policies and practices for endogenous sustainable development eds. Bertus Haverkort and Coen Reijntjes, (Leusden, Netherlands: Compas, 2006). Available at www.compasnet.org as PDF.


19. “What he can teach us about the brain,” Times Higher Education Supplement, September 15, 2006, pp. 18-19. A feature article on science, education and the Dalai Lama.


20. “Contemplative and Transformative Education” Kosmos vol. 6, number 1, pp. 42-44, 2006.


21. "From Scientific Imagination to Ethical Insight: The Necessity of Personal Experience in Moral Agency," included in the volume Social Justice Education, eds Kathleen Skubikowski, Catharine Wright, and Roman Graf  (Sterling, Virginia: Stylus, 2010) pp. 56-69.


Selected Physics Articles


“Light: Re-considered,” Optics and Photonics News, vol. 3, no. 1 (October 2003) pp. 2-5.

“Delayed-choice experiments in quantum interference," Physical Review A35, pp. 2532-41 (1987) with T. Hellmuth, W. Schleich, and H. Walther. (pdf)

“Differential cross section for electron impact excitation of metastable helium measured by the atomic-time-of-flight method," J. Phys. B.: Atom. Molec.Phys. 10, L43-467 (1977). ( pdf )