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It seems obvious that each of us is a separate and unique individual. We move through time and space entirely apart from the people and things around us. Or do we?

An “insider” look into IONS staff Noetic Practices

In this blog series, we are highlighting the practices that our IONS staff members use to connect to information and energy beyond space and time. The various ways that we individually connect with this type of information make up our unique Noetic Signature™. This month, Dr. Helané Wahbeh, IONS Director of Research, shares an energy meditation technique that brings awareness to the energetic body. This will be the first of two blogs on Dr. Wahbeh’s noetic experiential practice.

A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer “wakes up” inside the dream. This hybrid state of consciousness allows the dreamer to gain conscious control over the elements within the dream. Past research has shown that practicing physical skills during a lucid dream can boost waking performance. The IONS team is now asking the question of whether experiencing healing in a lucid dream will boost a person’s health.

The Black Plague led to a flowering of spiritual strangeness — a sea change in our spiritual lives.

While COVID challenged many traditional structures, it also illuminated a fast-growing thirst for the programs, research, and experiences IONS offers. Now is the time to “shine a light” on the implications of noetic research, leadership, and discoveries.

When astronaut Edgar Mitchell viewed the Earth from space he experienced what is now known as the “overview effect” – the awe-inspiring realization that our planet is merely a spaceship moving through the vastness of space. Mitchell was not alone: many astronauts have had similar life-changing experiences in space. For Edgar Mitchell, the experience was the impetus for launching the Institution for Noetic Sciences (IONS).

On May 28th, IONS Board Chair Claudia Welss hosted the ConnectIONS Live webinar, speaking with Frank White, author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution.

At the age of 24, David Lorimer pressed the “eject” button from his conventional career path in city merchant banking and set off on his quest for wisdom and deeper understanding of life. He arrived at Champagne Moet & Chandon in Epernay in the Autumn of 1976 with four boxes of books, combining reading with guiding visitors around the 18th century cellars. Since that time, he has devoted his life to education in the broadest sense.

It was 1979, I was a precocious 10 year-old, and I was in love with Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic; a purple-and-green paperback my parents had left lying around. These were actually two books bound as one. You could read one book at the front, and when you got stuck on a problem, you could read the other book at the back. By the time you came back to the book at the front, your earlier problem would be solved. Though I remember being irritated that the print wasn’t upside-down in the book at the back like the new Devo retrospective, what I loved was that the two books met at the middle, mimicking the way the future and past feel when they meet in the now. That feeling of “folded time” seemed to charm this book with a magical vibration, at least from my child-self’s viewpoint.

On Friday, May 14, 2021, IONS Board Member Mark Gober was the guest speaker at our ConnectIONS Live free webinar. As the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking and An End to Upside Down Living, he has done extensive research on the question of consciousness and presented evidence that consciousness does not come from the brain. The accumulated scientific findings suggest that we are interconnected as part of a universal consciousness extending beyond the body.