several different perspectives, with particular interest in human thought and behaviour and issues neglected by contemporary culture. In addition, the Institute supported projects in areas where freedom of access to facts was threatened, for example in the case of Afghanistan where assistance had been given to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s female educational projects. All the Institute for Cultural Research's activities were open to the general public. Notable contributors The institute published so many monographs and hosted so many lectures and seminars that only a small sample of notable contributors are listed here. See also People associated with The Institute for Cultural Research (category). Lecturers included: ecologist, adventurer and writer John P. Allen (Cultures and Biomes of the Biosphere) psychologist Michael Eysenck (Lost in Time, Making Sense of Amnesia) neuroscientist Professor Chris Frith (how the brain creates our mental and social worlds) British social anthropologist Professor Tim Ingold (the mismatch between the "environment" of immediate experience and the "Environment" of scientific and policy discourse) writer and documentary filmmaker Tahir Shah (the scientific legacies of the Arab Caliphates and their Golden Age) writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair (Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire) poet, writer and adventurer Robert Twigger (Polymaths in a monopathic world?) anthropologist Piers Vitebsky (Global religious change and the death of the shaman) novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer Marina Warner (Talismans and Charms: Spellbinding in Stories from The 1001 Nights) writer Ramsay Wood (The Kalila and Dimna Story) Monograph writers included: science writer Philip Ball (Collective Behaviour and the Physics of Society) diplomat and writer Robert Cecil (Cults in 19th Century Britain, Cultural Imperialism, and Education and Elitism in Nazi Germany) professor of psychiatry Arthur J. Deikman (Evaluating Spiritual and Utopian Groups) psychologist and noted skeptic Chris French (Paranormal Perception? A Critical Evaluation) co-founder of the Club of Rome in 1968, Dr. Alexander King (Science, Technology and the Quality of Life and An Eye to the Future) Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing (Problems, Myths and Stories) professor of telecommunications Leonard Lewin (Science and the Paranormal) professor of archaeology Steven Mithen (Problem-solving and the Evolution of Human Culture) writer and psychologist Robert E. Ornstein (Physiological Studies of Consciousness) biochemist, plant physiologist and parapsychologist Rupert Sheldrake (Fields of the Mind) Books published by the ICR included Cultural Research edited by the writer Tahir Shah, and Cultural Encounters: Essays on the interactions of diverse cultures now and in the past,