Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brian J. McVeigh (BA, MA, PhD) (born 1959) is a psychological and political anthropologist who received his doctorate in 1991 from Princeton University s Department of Anthropology. While a graduate student, he studied under Julian Jaynes whose influence is apparent in his research. He now teaches at the University of Arizona. Jaynes s impact is evident in McVeigh s first project which explored the role of spirit possession in a Japanese religious movement. His findings were published in Spirits, Selves, and Subjectivity in a Japanese New Religion: The Cultural Psychology of Belief in Sûkyô Mahikari (1997) and Spirit Possession in Sûkyô Mahikari: A Variety of Sociopsychological Experience. His other relevant articles include Standing Stomachs, Clamoring Chests and Cooling Livers: Metaphors in the Psychological Lexicon of Japanese and The Self as Interiorized Social Relations: Applying a Jaynesian Approach to Problems of Agency and Volition.