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What happens when we attend a silent meditation retreat, sign up for a spiritual seminar, or engage in a healing ritual? Anecdotally, we know that personal development experiences like these catalyze positive transformation and growth. We may have even had a few of these experiences ourselves.
Because many people are in the closet about their channeling experiences, they don’t quite realize how common they are. Channeling experiences are actually very common.
The pandemic has turned out to be a great equalizer – affecting each and every one of us in some way. More people have talked more openly about facing mental and emotional challenges than ever before. We are all talking more honestly about how we feel in the struggle to maintain resiliency and balance. We’re learning it’s “ok” to be more open about feelings of anxiety and loneliness, to grieve loss. When isolated from each other, when our families and livelihoods may be threatened, just about everyone becomes more vulnerable. And many have found new doorways to improving mental health during the pandemic – reducing travel, decreasing commute times, watching nature thrive with less pollution, and finding time to nurture our homes, gardens, and spiritual practices.
I can’t even begin to count the number of emails and people commenting about being worried to share their channeling experiences because people will think they are “crazy.”
Several months into the year of Covid, one of our town librarians delivered handmade cards from local elementary school children to the residents of my building. The card I received was decorated with purple flowers, glitter, and stars and read in big block letters: Keep Your Head Up and Your Heart Strong!! The word heart was underlined three times. I taped it to my kitchen cabinet for encouragement and as a reminder of resilience.
One of the most exciting things about working at the Institute of Noetic Sciences is hearing your stories.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are profound experiences that frequently occur on the threshold of death. They include phenomena that are difficult if not impossible to reconcile with a materialistic view of the mind, such as enhanced thinking and perceptions while the brain is severely impaired, accurate perceptions from outside the physical body, and encounters with deceased persons not known to have died. Dr. Bruce Greyson has been studying NDEs for almost half a century.
In a series of experiments, we explored the effects of intention on two properties of light: polarization and scattering.
Two Seals and a Walrus are U.S. Navy SEALs Ben Johnson and Doug Moulton, and human mind researcher Sean Webb. Their weekly podcast investigates ways in which science is pushing the boundaries of our personal and collective consciousness.
Do scientists and engineers have fewer exceptional human experiences (EHEs) than other people? According to the IONS study, reported in the August 2018 issue of the journal Explore, the answer, surprisingly, is no. The paper on this study is one of the most-cited Explore article in 2021 – in part because its findings are so intriguing and counter-intuitive.