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Press Releases & Files: Dr Austin author infomation at MIT Press. For an 8" x 10", 300 ppi photo of Dr. Austin for press, click Download File above.
Bio In Brief:
Name: James H. Austin.
Born: 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Occupation: Neurologist, Professor, Author.
Schools: Harvard Medical School. Rinzai Zen.
Sangha: Hokoku-An in Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Wikipedia Link to Dr Austin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Austin
Interviews with Dr Austin:
1. John Horgan. Rational Mysticism. (2003) pp 124-140 in J. Horgan. Rational Mysticism. Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
2. Vince Horn. Episode BG 140: This is Your Brain on Meditation. September 28, 2009. FOrmerly on www.buddhistgeeks.com but their website has shut down.
3. Vince Horn. Episode BG 141: The Mechanisms of Kensho. October 5, 2009. Formerly on www.buddhistgeeks.com but their website has shut down .
4. Zenshin Michael Haederle. This is Your Brain on Zen. Tricycle, The Buddhist Review (Fall, 2009);19(1);58-61; 113-114.
Note: The first PET scan on this tricycle article ( page 58) is not correct. The correct scan and the descriptive commentary is on page 12 of the second issue of the Winter 2009 Tricycle isssue.
5. Realizing Awakened Consciousness: Interviews with Buddhist Teachers (2015). Richard Boyle. Appendix pp 292-302, Interview with James H Austin. Columbia University Press New York, NY.