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“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history – a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.” — IONS founding President Willis Harman
In the 2000 book Cultural Creatives, IONS collaborator and sociologist Paul Ray describes crisis as “transformation without a container.” That same year, IONS left its offices in downtown Sausalito, CA to establish the EarthRise campus in Petaluma (named after the famous EarthRise photo taken by Apollo 8 that provided the very first images of Earth from deep space, changing our perceptions of ourselves and our home forever) as a container for humanity’s transformation. This 194-acre “Global Wisdom Center” would further the scientific understanding and embodied experience of interconnection and expanded human potential to promote the evolution of civilization and our world.
Human beings are not the only ones able to create art: the universe paints the most stunning works of art on the canvas of the black sky. NASA has built a web index with the latest shots from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Biofield Therapies, a major sub-group of integrative healthcare practices involving energy healing, have their origins in widely diverse cultures. Reiki and Johrei were developed in Japan, External Qigong in China, and Yakson Touch in Korea, in each case from long-standing systems of Traditional East Asian Medicine. Pranic Healing is based in the Ayurvedic medicine of South India, while Spiritist Passe originated in Brazil. Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch each developed within the Nursing profession in the United States.
The thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves may be the most important way we define ourselves. It’s why they may often come up repeatedly during our mind wandering. As Arnaud Delorme shares in his book Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts, these thoughts can be categorized into different types, such as self-critical thoughts, self-affirming thoughts, self-doubting thoughts, self-judgmental thoughts, self-comparing thoughts and self-reflective thoughts.
Throughout history, people have tapped into different mental states to glean insights from realms beyond everyday physical reality. This process has been known by various names like channeling, prophecy, oracle, or spiritual communication. No matter what it’s called, the essence remains the same: the channeler serves as a conduit to convey wisdom believed to stem from otherworldly beings or dimensions. The true source of information is unknown, and might be the unconscious mind, a higher self, telepathic connections, or non-physical entities – or all of the above.
Have you heard someone curse the smallest planet in our solar system when things don’t go as planned? While there is not a large body of scientifically validated research on astrology, over millennia people across the globe have used the movements of the cosmos to inform their lives. In this article, we’ll review what Mercury retrograde means.
IONS is gearing up for our FIRST VIRTUAL Global Conference on Thursday, May 30 through Sunday, June 2, 2024. While it’s our first virtual conference, it will be IONS’ 19th conference in our 50-year history.
In 1993, the Institute of Noetic Sciences published Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. In this work, the authors, Caryle Hirshberg and the late Brendan O’Regan, defined spontaneous remission as “the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor.”
Can humans “feel the future”? Experiments about how people react to events they shouldn’t be able to predict suggest there might be something to this idea of a mysterious human ability.