Philip Nicholson has published articles on the neural correlates of meditation-induced light visions in medical journals (Epilepsia, Medical Hypotheses, The Journal of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine) and academic publications (The Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies; Shamanism in the Interdisciplinary Context; Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the International Society for Shamanistic Research, Changchun, China, 2004 [in press]; Proceedings of the 2006 Harvard-Peking University International Conference on Comparative Mythology, Beijing, China [in press]). His research on