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SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SEEKS DIRECTOR AND VICE PRESIDENT: Scottsdale Cultural Council (SCC) seeks applications for the position of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Director and Vice President of SCC. SCC seeks a seasoned leader of vision and integrity with a background in contemporary art who inspires consensus and can work in partnership with all levels of stakeholders to carry out the mission of SMoCA. Qualifications include, but are not limited to: master's degree, ten years contemporary art curatorial experience at senior management level, demonstrated accomplishments/achievements in exhibitions, scholarly art publications, education programming, fund-raising, audience development, and budgeting. Visit: http://www.sccarts.org/employment

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES: EXPLORING THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION BY ORNELLA CORAZZA, MA. PhD: This fascinating book introduces the phenomenon of NDEs. Taking a strikingly original cross-cultural approach, and incorporating new medical research, it combines new theories of mind-body with brain research. It analyzes the use of ketamine to reveal how characteristics of NDEs can be chemically induced without being close to death. This evidence challenges the conventional 'survivalist hypothesis,' according to which the near death experience is a proof of the existence of an afterlife. It concludes that we need to move towards a more integrated view of embodiment, in order to understand what human life is and also what it can be.

Updated 1 May 2009