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When you hear the word channeling, what comes to mind? Many of us would think of Bashar, Seth, Barbara Marciniak, Edgar Cayce, etc. In other words, most people think of trance channeling, where a person allows a supposed entity (deceased spirits, aliens, angels, higher self, etc.) to use their body as a vehicle to communicate.
Can the sleeping mind help us process trauma to improve our well-being?
Imagine this: You’re thinking about someone, and at that exact moment, your phone buzzes — it’s them. Or you suddenly feel an intense wave of emotion, only to find out later that a loved one was experiencing the exact same thing, miles away. These moments of mind-to-mind connection aren’t just coincidences, they might be something more. And now, you have a rare chance to help science explore the mystery.
Throughout history, people have reported extraordinary moments that profoundly shift their perception of reality. From out-of-body to near-death experiences, channeling, and deep moments of connection with nature, these Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs) catalyze personal growth. These experiences, though sometimes dismissed as rare or mystical, are actually more common than we might think.
This is a continuation of the series I’ve been writing about the Dark Night of the Soul/Phoenix Era. Read my previous posts: The Phoenix Era, Rising from Ashes to Authenticity, Integration: The Social Edition, Death in the Dark Night, and “Your Tears Are Holy.”
Enjoy this except from Chapter One of Dawson Church’s new book, Spiritual Intelligence.
IONS is celebrating a groundbreaking achievement in the field of psychiatry and spirituality. Our esteemed colleague, Dr. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, has been awarded the 2025 Oskar Pfister Award by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This prestigious award recognizes his exceptional contributions to the scientific study of spiritual experiences and their profound implications for our understanding of consciousness and the survival of consciousness beyond bodily death.
Enjoy this excerpt from Chapter 10 of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts .
For thousands of years, mystics, shamans, and seekers have claimed to channel wisdom from beyond—supposedly connecting with divine beings, ancestral spirits, or universal consciousness. Trance channeling, also known as oracle communication or prophecy, is woven into the history of humanity, from the sacred temples of ancient Greece to the mystical traditions of the East. Even today, across cultures and continents, this phenomenon continues to intrigue, inspire, and mystify.
Over several years, a series of experiments were conducted by IONS to explore possible mental interactions with photons. These experiments were motivated by the quantum theory concept that a “nonphysical factor” (i.e., consciousness) was required to cause the transition between quantum potential states and classical actual states. What does that mean? It means the consciousness and/or the mind has the capacity to influence matter — also known as Mind-Matter Interaction. The experiments used a double-slit apparatus (which is used to track the trajectory of light) to measure whether a person’s focused attention on perceiving or perturbing one of the two photon paths changed the photo (light) trajectory. Overall, the results of those experiments suggested that focused attention does appear to affect the pattern of light.